My letter concerning Sunday School. I write my local newspaper that evil is afoot in our town.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to take pitchforks and torches to the Governor's Mansion:

California's budget deficit has grown by $7 billion in the last four months. Uh oh. The good news in this debacle is that the state's fiscal woes will make it nearly impossible to complete Governor Jerry Brown's runaway high-speed rail train. The bad news is that the Governor is going to try anyway.

I would like to share an experience with you about drinking and driving. As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from the odd social session over the years. A couple of weeks ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before: I took a bus home. Sure enough I passed a police road block but as it was a bus, they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got it.

Jyomi Riraj ‏@IntrusMortel

I feel for poor people. When times get tough, even I have to economize, and borrow a yacht from my father.

Reminds me of the story about the Saudi Prince who wrote to his father that he was embarrassed to drive to school in his new Ferrari because his friends always came in on the train, so his father wired him $100 million and wrote "for God's sake go buy yourself a train."

This isn't funny, but it is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82128302/

Note the dreaded "[citation needed]" under "effectiveness."

Eric-

Here's an artifact composed for men our age.

I'll send you a gift for the boy's next birthday if you can identify the original version of the underlying chord progression.

Without consulting the internet.

No idea, but I am thinking either Isaac Hayes or Georgio Moroder?

1960's version.

1970's version.

(It's some of the same guys in both versions.)

(Also, Isaac Hayes is exactly who I thought of when hearing the Adamson song for the first time! All the sudden it was back to social studies class 7th grade and I obsessed with that one girl with those incredible buns, the one from the rich part of town. [Don't make me name names. You know who I mean.])

(Also, do not give to much of your life to trying to play this lick... I've been hacking at it for thirty years and still can't do it fluidly. Maybe you have to be born with it.)