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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello performing Billy Strayhorn‘s Take The ‘A’ Train ¤ §, in 1966 (9:50).

“The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
— Bertrand Russell

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. There seems to be a lot of different versions of this number. It is however perfect for late night radio entertainment.
    My Dad had a Zenith parlour radio that was made of mahogany. It ran on batteries, the speaker was 10-12 ins in diameter. The sound was superb.
    I remember listening to American stations late at night. Dad liked Duke Ellington, and Guy Lombardo. Unlike TV–there is something serene about a radio playing in a dimly lit room.
    Thanks Vit!

  3. Via climatedepot.com
    [ A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and passed to the Guardian reveals the US government’s increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks.
    Titled Strategic communications objectives and dated 11 March 2010, it outlines the key messages that the Obama administration wants to convey to its critics and to the world media in the run-up to the vital UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico in November. (You can read the document text below).
    Top of the list of objectives is to: “Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change.” ] guardian
    ‘ regime’ has connotations.

  5. I tried to post a thing in which I said that Bertrand Russell was the rich man’s Richard Dawkins, and I linked to The Second Coming (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)” by W.B. Yeats.
    Seemed relevant. Got caught in the filter.
    Also I like the music.

  6. Yeah, I do that too. Vit makes some quality video selection and then I play others in a similar vein.
    Other Brubeck gems and earlier, the Johnny Carson & Rat Pack flashbacks were priceless.
    Buddy Hackett, Sammy Davis, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, Harvey Coreman, Carole Burnette, Tim Conway; Those were the days of REAL comedy!

  7. I am doubtful that fools and fanatics are the whole problem.
    Or is the whole problem their certainty?

  9. …the best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity…”
    Why won’t you people pay attention to me!?!? I don’t even partticularly like Yeats!

  10. Russell was a fool, Yeats, Black Mamba, could be very insightful, though I’m not sure I like the man.

  11. Are we both talking about this same Bertrand Russell, Larben, the co-authour of a work “widely considered by specialists in the subject to be one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy since Aristotle’s Organon”? Because if so, I hardly think that “fool” would be the most appropriate term you could come up with. I don’t agree with him on many things too. Nevertheless, for the purpose of tonight’s show, it is the apothegm that is on stage, not the author.

  12. When bombings aren’t enough
    http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100404/International/int_07.html
    JERUSALEM – Several high-profile former U.S. officials, some with close ties to the Obama administration, met with leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in recent months, raising hope inside the group that its views are being heard at the White House.
    White House officials and participants in the talks emphasize the meetings weren’t sanctioned by Washington. U.S. officials say there has been no change to Washington’s insistence that Hamas take a number of steps before official dialogue can begin.

  13. A brilliant mathematician does not necessarily have a clue as to how human people think. Again we’re back to the IQ stuff. But I’ll take him over Dawkins any time.

  15. Hungarian friend just introduced me to a master of mystic romantic music.
    Omar Akram
    There are dozens of his works on Youtube..
    Never heard of the guy, till last night.
    Where the heck have I been? This Omar Akram is a wizard of marvelously seductive music.
    Careful, this could bring another little blessing into your family. Try this…
    youtube.com/watch?v=HL8k14tXNzM&feature=related
    Stay with it ’till the rose graphic changes to the ‘sunset couple’. What a composition.

  16. Thanks for the link, ron in kelowna – I am sending it to everyone on my cc list. Forewarned is forearmed.

  17. ELECTRIC CARS A REALITY FOR IRELAND
    • Government announces €5,000 incentive for electric vehicles
    • ESB to roll out 3,500 charge points and 30 fast charge points
    • Renault-Nissan Alliance to provide Ireland with electric cars
    DUBLIN (April 12, 2010)–The Irish Government, the ESB, the nation’s largest
    electricity utility, and the Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced a
    comprehensive partnership to position Ireland as a European leader in electric
    transport.
    [[Oooops, too late, France, Sweden, London, Norway, and Australia beat ya to it. However, good news anyway.]]
    Today’s Definitive Agreement includes the development of a nationwide electric
    car charging infrastructure by ESB, the supply of electric cars by the Renault-
    Nissan Alliance from 2011, as well as Government policies and incentives that will
    support the widespread adoption of such vehicles.
    Those who purchase electric cars can avail of the €5,000 grant, which the
    Irish Government announced today. Irish buyers of electric vehicles will be exempt from Vehicle Registration Tax.
    ====================================
    http://tinyurl.com/y2yz7qo
    Canada wallows in ignorance and apathy while other countries move ahead. Wonderful.

  19. My high school band teacher was one of Dave Brubeck’s two brothers, Henry. I met Dave in the early 1960s when he played a concert at my high school that was a benefit for the band – at that time he was, according to “Uncle Henry,” the world’s highest-paid pianist. The members of the quartet at that point were Brubeck, Morello, Desmond, and Wright.
    What memories…

  20. Tony, is California a country now?
    As an aside, while I love new technology as much as any techno-geek, I abhor “nanny government” run programs that jump on about every bandwagon that rolls down the street. Electric cars are interesting and probably the way of the future but first we have to solve the problem of where do you get the power to charge up all these toys. Energy costs money and I doubt if there are enough windmills and solar panels to take over existing electrical demands let alone an electric motoring public. I’m not saying it isn’t going to happen eventually but really, do you actually think that governments are giving you free money? It’s your money folks.

  21. Bertrand Russell: ” … but wiser people so full of doubts.”
    Says WHO? Bertrand Russell? It would be wise for a wiser person to make this observation …
    Not all people with firm convictions are fools and fanatics, nor are the wise always doubtful.
    But, Vit, it’s a good conversation starter. And, in the meantime, I’m going to take the A Train.
    [ Your certitude may be earnest; I have my doubts. ~Vitruvius ]

  22. A Toronto jazz pianist, David Braid, has a great jazz CD out with Matt Brubeck, Dave’s son.
    Brubeck Braid
    American cellist/composer Matt Brubeck and Canadian pianist/composer David Braid formed this duo in late 2006. … Their music blurs the distinctions between jazz, classical and new music. … The duo’s debut CD, “Twotet/Deuxtet,” has received much critical acclaim and was nominated for a 2008 Juno Award.
    “This gifted duo delivers new music that glows with clarity and depth…” – Coda Magazine
    http://www.davidbraid.com/

  24. Electric cars, like wind and solar power are pipe dreams.
    The electrical grid can barely supply the demand as it stands now. Even if the grid was modern enough to supply it, where does the power come from? Wind and solar are hopeless, so that means oil and coal, so these electric cars would do nothing but move the petro-chemical burn from the car to the power plant.
    The only way that electric cars begin to have an effect is if nuclear power starts supplying the vast majority of the power needs. Given the regulatory BS that goes into getting even a single plant built, don’t expect to see it in your lifetime.

  25. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): very, very “potent” O “failed”.
    “*I am glad to say they failed,” Solon said”.
    “**The storm will shift northeastward into Canada late tonight. Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba will bear the brunt of the storm on Wednesday.”
    …-
    “*Contentious climate talks end
    BONN, Germany (AP) — Delegates to the first U.N. climate talks after Copenhagen have agreed to intensify their negotiations on curbing greenhouse gases before this year’s decisive ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico.
    The agreement — itself a tacit acknowledgment of the slow progress in reaching a global climate pact — followed three days of at-times rancorous discussions that nearly ground to a halt.
    It was an early warning that the split between industrial countries and the developing world will likely continue characterizing the talks.
    Bolivian delegate Pablo Solon said Monday he was pleased Sunday’s agreement made no mention of the Copenhagen Agreement — a political deal hastily cobbled together by President Barack Obama and a handful of other national leaders at the end of the U.N. talks in December.
    “Despite continual attempts by the U.S. to make the completely unacceptable Copenhagen Accord the basis for future negotiations, I am glad to say they failed,” Solon said in a statement.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/04/13/contentious-climate-talks-end/
    …-
    “**Storm Lets Heavy Snow, Soaking Rain Loose on the Northern Plains
    A potent storm system will advance onto the High Plains today unleashing soaking rain, heavy snow, powerful winds and even some feisty thunderstorms. This same storm pounded California late last weekend into Monday.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/27368/storm-lets-heavy-snow-soaking.asp

  29. Don’t remember the details but Bertrand Russell came off pretty badly in Paul Johnson’s The Intellectuals. As Black Mamba suggests his genius in maths has zero weight vis-a-vis his observations of human society.
    I’ve been thinking a lot about quotes lately.
    I feel that we are often seduced by the sheer ‘poetry’ of the quote — the ‘fame’ of the quote — and have therefore perhaps lost the facility, the hubris, to question a famous quote.
    I first became aware of this when I had a sudden epiphany on the total fallacy of Santayana’s famous quote about people who don’t know history being forced to repeat it.
    FOR, whether or not you know why something happened in the past is irrelevant. It’ll be back, not because we’re stupid, but because it is human nature to think that “this time it’s different”. One need only look at euphoric market booms, or marxist profs, against all the weight of history, continuing to favour socialism.
    Which is not to say, Vitruvius, that I don’t very much enjoy your boxed quotes!
    BUT, let us not bow down before the great quote, or the great man’s pronouncement.

  30. Say, I’ve got an idea, why don’t y’all jump to conclusions from a single image. Yes, you too could be working for the legacy media: all wrong, all the time. Whatever. Meanwhile: MND, I think that apothegms are generally better appreciated as constructed, not as deconstructed. They are, in my opinion, more like hors d’œuvre, or petits fours.

  31. Heh, Vitruvius, there’s another pic in that series with Obama pointing his finger at PMSH, as he also did to Netanyahu. Apropos of nothing maybe, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that Obama is a censorious finger wagger, eh? And a bower ‘n scraper to murderous tyrants, who of course are like that only because of US misbehavior in the world.
    Amusing your observation about quotes/hors d’œuvres, for I have often observed that, as with crackers and cheese, no matter the amount consumed hunger is not satiated!

  33. The BS/bafflegab from the left-liberals is piled higher deeper (PHD) here.
    This is why Liberal Iffy and his cronies are fixated on phony “scandals”. There fixation is be-ss. It’s an attempt to distract us from the fact that the Liberal Iffy Ad$Cam party has been relegated to the PET Cemetery.
    There is no surprise. This has been seen for months.
    This is the end result of Canadians at work; of small business at work; of good government and sound Conservative budgets/tax policies.
    Message to the “experts” and Liberal Iffy: Get out of the way. You are passe.
    “”Overall, this report is quite a pleasant surprise for the Canadian economy,” said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.”
    …-
    “Canada’s trade surplus widens to highest level since October 2008″
    http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/economy/story.html?id=2877742
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/04/13/globe-supports-pms-silence-on-allegations/#comment-79513

  35. Liberal Charest:
    “Visibly shaken by sensational attacks on his integrity,”
    …-
    Liberal Iffy’s Liberal “brand” is now branded as BiggerThanLiberalAd$Cam.
    Bags, not brown bags, suitcases of $$$$$$$$$ of taxpayers’ money burned/scoffed by Liberal bagmen.
    As Liberal Jeancula Ad$Cam Chretien said (paraphrased): Wad’s a cubble da million dollars?
    This Liberal infamy is bigger than Liberal Ad$Cam.
    This is a Liberal attack on the fundamental separation of the judiciary from the executive of the government.
    Watch commie Duceppe Bloc party die. The Quebec Liberal party/Iffy’s Liberal Party are already corpuses delecti, aka bodies of crime.
    …-
    “[Liberal] Charest calls inquiry into how Quebec judges are selected”
    [Liberal] “Premier responds to allegations made by his former justice minister that Liberal bagmen influenced the selection of judges”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/charest-calls-inquiry-into-how-quebec-judges-are-selected/article1533077/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/04/13/globe-supports-pms-silence-on-allegations/#comment-79513

  36. Leftist MSM collapses into O’narcissist ODS. Tsktsk ….
    “*This is his [O] sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “Obama’s disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit
    World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
    They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
    In the middle of it all was Obama — occupant of an office once informally known as “leader of the free world” — putting on a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
    The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama’s eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: “I’m going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session.”
    (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2492315/posts
    *O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  37. Vitruvius: “Your certitude may be earnest; I have my doubts.”
    No. No, honest, Vit, no need for your doubts. I’m definitely taking the A train, not the B train or the C train.

  41. “No. No, honest, Vit, no need for your doubts. I’m definitely taking the A train, not the B train or the C train.
    Posted by: batb at April 13, 2010 6:44 PM”
    I’m catching the blue train, meself…somewhere down the crazy river…

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