Ecce Cor Meum by Sir Paul McCartney

I had the unique and incredible pleasure of meeting and working with Paul McCartney this past week to present the American premiere of his new oratorio, Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart). The music itself has its beautiful moments – as well as a few not-so-beautiful ones. But the man was a Beatle!!! He should be commended for taking on such an ambitious project.

The piece was begun when Sir Paul’s first wife (and great love) Linda was still alive. In the midst of composing it, she passed away from cancer. While it isn’t officially

Get OUT there tomorrow…ELECTION DAY.

I lie here on my bed, with Monday Night Football blaring (mostly unwatched) in the background.

Tomorrow is, by all accounts, the most important mid-term election of my lifetime. And my stomach is in knots.

What is going to happen? I have my hopes – though I have my worries also. I expect the Democrats to take the House…and pray for them to lead the Senate as well. But I’ve felt confident before – only to have my heart broken.

I hope everyone who is of age and able will get out tomorrow and exercise their American responsibility by voting.

Vote Democratic. It’s time that this hideous administration has a Congress that will provide some much needed opposition.

More Keith Olbermann Brilliance

We are, as every generation, inseparable from our own time.

Thus is our perspective, inevitably that of the explorer looking into the wrong end of the telescope.

But even accounting for our myopia, it’s hard to imagine there have been many elections more important than this one, certainly not in non-presidential years.

Mr. President, You OWE US ALL an Apology

The following is a very long transcript from Keith Olbermann’s closing statement on November 1st. It is, in this blogger’s humble opinion, worth every second invested in reading it.

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On the 22nd of May, 1856, as the deteriorating American political system veered toward the edge of the cliff, U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina shuffled into the Senate of this nation, his leg stiff from an old dueling injury, supported by a cane. And he looked for the familiar figure of the prominent senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner.