OK, it has been 73 days since Lola and I last heard Ben Sidran play live and outside in the Wisconsin evening air, so tonight it is Jazz at Five on the Capital Square. The 10 piece Latin Jazz group Madisalsa follows with Santana styled rhythms and one excited youth blurts out: “This is so Madison; there is no other city like it”. More mature adults converse about the stupidity of criminals, the folly of trolley and the impact of taxes on the poor.
In Tehran, the Chinese Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai has a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqch to express Chinese regrets the United Nations took so long to stop the horrible fighting in Lebanon. It is speculated the Chinese are advising the Mullahs to say the right words on the world stage, because simply put, talking buys time. The leadership of the Islamic Republic is not stupid and their spending is not dependent on tax dollars. Their dreams are of grander things than simply looping in circles and time, after all, is what it takes to achieve visionary goals.
