Today is Tom Lehrer’s birthday. The great man, who is still with us, turns 97 today.
In honor of his birthday I read the Wikipedia article about him. Which is where I learned that he has made all of his recordings freely available, and you can download them all from his website.
So I downloaded them all from his website. And of course I immediately proceeded to listen to The Elements, which made me very, very happy.
Lehrer once famously said “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.” I wonder what he must think of the current state of our Union.