"New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded." -- Nelson Algren
September 7, 2023

On this day 1968, Led Zeppelin Make Their Live Debut As The New Yardbirds.

Tengrain: It's Peggy Noonan's Birthday. Today, Peggington is 110 proof years old!

Left Jabs: Let’s Not Get Bamboozled, Yet Again, by Third-Party Candidates.

Lawyers, Guns & Money: Most authoritarian Republican Party in America considers nullifying another election.

Balloon Juice: We Knew What They Were, But There’s Knowing and There’s KNOWING.

Attention space nerds! Will the Universe Ever Stop Expanding?

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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