Sen. Orrin Hatch Writes 'Extremely Catchy' Hanukkah Song
It’s not April, so I’m assuming this isn’t NPR’s idea of a clever holiday joke…
It’s not April, so I’m assuming this isn’t NPR’s idea of a clever holiday joke…







Snow Day, Wisconsin, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/world/asia/10jakarta.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Didik J. Rachbini, a professor and the founder of an economic research institute, said that in the past four years, Indonesia had swung from more or less parity in bilateral trade to a deficit equal to one-third of its annual exports to China — and rising.



Record snowfall at 1 a.m., Wisconsin, 2009
This NYT article appears to support the idea that the Obama administration is fundamentally pragmatic in its approach to HIV/AIDS— and is therefore destined to disappoint partisans on both sides of the issue:
“As the Obama administration slowly unveils its global AIDS plan, the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and fatal birth complications.”



The Night Before Snow Day, Wisconsin, 2009
White light from the window, fresh snow behind the house.
I love you with the clarity of morning light on new snow.
“Think of us!” she said that night when she turned and flew up the steps rapidly. And it was as if I could think of nothing else. We two and the stairs ascending infinitely.
- Henry Miller, Sexus
Dresser, 2009
Nobody should be spurned or rejected who gives even the illusion of feeling. How could I tell what struggles he had made, and was still making perhaps, to rise to the surface? What right had I to judge him— or anybody? If people smile at you, take your arm, give off a glow, it must be that there is something in them which responds. Nobody is altogether dead.
- Henry Miller, Sexus
Bar Luce, Seoul, 2009