Ethel the Blog is chockful. Checking in tonight revealed, among other things:

reflections on the California “utility crisis”;

concern about the vagaries of Amazon.com’s censorship policy, relating to the Shrub book A Charge to Keep;

consideration of how we should treat First Ladies with real, or putative, blood on their hands;

the first couple of entries in his project to port his vinyl LPs to .mp3;

contemplating The Haggis;

vituperation about conservative columnist Bob Novak’s revisionist history;

a listing of streaming jazz channels on the web

a digression on the avocado