The nasty sinus bug has moved into my ears, plugging me up. I don't want to sit in a waiting room/ treatment room for a couple of hours just to get an antibiotic. Is there a better way? Just a couple of links today:

Transcript: Comedy Central show host Stephen Colbert's 2006 Commencement Address at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. Saturday. Story.

Here's a taste:

There are so many challenges facing this next generation, and as they said earlier, you are up for these challenges. And I agree, except that I don’t think you are. I don’t know if you’re tough enough to handle this. You are the most cuddled generation in history. I belong to the last generation that did not have to be in a car seat. You had to be in car seats. I did not have to wear a helmet when I rode my bike. You do. You have to wear helmets when you go swimming, right? In case you bump your head against the side of the pool. Oh, by the way, I should have said, my speech today may contain some peanut products.

A few bars of music:
Web Jukeboxes in bars: Preprogramming, pay for more choices, pay to get your tunes played before the last guy's. Shrug. WSJ freebie.

Punch line:

It was nice to see I could perform some prestidigitation and hear the Replacements in the Blarney Stone. But it was far more significant to find them waiting for me in B61. The former told me I could bend a bar's music to my will, or at least try. The latter told me I might belong.