Last weekend's driving music had a bunch of favorite songs I haven't listened to in a while, including one with the following lines:

In some far off distant dawn
When a black is President and not a pawn
Will they burn crosses on the White House lawn?

(David Massengill, "Number One in America")

I am nearing the end of a multi-year project to transfer my several hundred cassettes to CD. I took a break this fall because I was busy with class. During that pause, my CD player/recorder died. New ones are expensive. My DVD player will play CDs, but not record them ( Read more... )