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Jon Stewart on Crossfire

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If you have any kind of political beliefs at all (as I suppose most people do), you need to watch this, or at least read the transcript. Jon Stewart goes on Crossfire presumably to talk about his new book, and ends up ripping apart the two hosts for being tools of the political spin system. Man, it felt good to watch that.

Meanwhile, tonight I got to see Dave Brubeck in concert. (Yeah, THE Dave Brubeck!) He was performing with his quartet and the Nashville Symphony. We got some comp tickets from a teacher at Belmont. It was amazing. I can't believe how prolific he is as a composer. The last number on the program was "Take Five", the first encore was "Take the 'A' Train", and the second encore was Dave by himself. He began to play the Brahms lullaby, got to the end of the phrase, hit the V chord, stood up and left. It was hilarious. I think it was the perfect encore - he came out again for us, played some music, let us in on a little joke, and let us know that it was time to go home.