Batture-y Placid

NPR's John Burnett has done an excellent story about those who live on the batture of the Mississippi, walking distance from where I grew up.   My kids and I used to ride bikes past the batturites' ("batturistas"?) houses, romantic hopeful dwellings that wonder at nature instead of giving the finger to it.

Scott Simon DOES Rock, and He IS Cool

For the longest time, I have felt that the best job in the world is Scott Simon's.

I've been a fan for years, though "fan" is too lite a word for the nearly mythic status the man's journalism has for me.

Today I can authoritatively say why: he's not just a good journalist, but a really, really good man.

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