Can You Taste the Ghosts Who Shed Their Creaking Hosts?

Year ago today. Favorite songs solicited in comments, will appear up here.

• Cow.
• Impossible Years (Dancing Hoods).
• Someday I Will Treat You Good.
• Happy Man.
• Pig.
• Hundreds of Sparrows.
• Saturday.
• Heart of Darkness. 
• Chaos of the Galaxy.

I'm almost through this week's sorrow (though hug your children today). Regular programming will resume tomorrow unless it doesn't (or unless, like me, you consider this regular programming). Meanwhile, links while they're fresh and urgent:

• Kingdom of Evil.
• Everything you need to know about torture. 
• Unmanageability.
• Mentioning C-Words. 
• Next.
• 1977 again. 
• Put the Constitution on the ground and walk away.
• White privilege.
• Dana Milbank might go Froomkin: if he does, over/under date when Fred Hiatt fires him.
• On the above. 
• Religious systems.
• Toilet Paper. (h/t Frederick's google reader feed)
• Scenes from a marriage. 
• Is happiness boring?
• Where to begin.
• The poem as graph.
• de Selby.