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New York City's lost Dewey Arch is paid tribute by Andrew Cusack.

The image above of pachyderms promenading below the arch comes via the wonderful KJA circus-poster site. I also like their Congress of Giant Birds of the World.

An early recording of the "Admiral Dewey March" is heard via American Memory.

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A Wall Street Journal editorial says the President's Second Inaugural Address put dictators on notice, but neither Peggy Noonan nor Peter Robinson cared for the speech. Jonah Goldberg defends the spirit of the thing. Real Clear Politics surveys general reaction.

Meantime, PJ O'Rourke offers an alternate address for the non-compassionate conservative:

MY FELLOW AMERICANS, I had intended to reach out to all of you and bring a divided nation together. But I changed my mind. America isn't divided by political ethos or ethnic origin. America isn't divided by region or religion. America is divided by jerks. Who wants to bring a bunch of jerks together with the rest of us? Let them stew in Berkeley, Boston, and Ann Arbor.

(Via EL Core)

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Today's listening at Perfessor Bill's: "Under the Double Eagle" at the Pre-Ragtime page and James Sylvester Scott's "Calliope Rag" – the calliope version – at Classic Ragtime Composers.

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I'm with Thos Fitzpatrick -- the Conservative or Tory color is Blue, the color of the Left is Red. Let's get those state colors right!