“Who could have known?”, etc. Perhaps the trail of dead bodies might have been a clue…

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This doesn’t exactly sound like a principled stand, does it:
Betty Lu Saltzman, a Democratic doyenne from Chicago’s lakefront liberal crowd, convened a small group of activists, including Ms. Katz, in her living room to organize a rally to protest the United States’ impending invasion of Iraq. It was late September 2002, and Mr. Obama was […]

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There’s something oddly moving about watching an older, wiser Sonny & Cher sing this years after their divorce. Compare and contrast:

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Nothing quite reminds you of your failings like being a mother, mostly because you’ve replicated children who, because of those prenatal vitamins, your conscientious protein intake in the last trimester and the bedtime stories and books you encouraged them to read, have extraordinary verbal skills which they will use at every vulnerable moment to remind […]

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Dayna Kurtz with one of my favorite songs:

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Sue Keller with a nice cover of the Laura Nyro tune:

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I haven’t seen any really good covers of Who songs until this:

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Based on no data at all, I think this is largely true.
Admittedly, this is the kind of counterfactual that’s impossible to prove, but my guess is that if she had voted against the war Clinton would be the Democratic candidate. Given the closeness of the race, her inherent advantages going in, and that the war […]

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I moved one of my really big bookcases today (boy, I wish I had a chiropractor boyfriend!) and now I’m culling the collection. Every time I move, I get rid of more books. After the divorce, I think I started with more than three thousand; now I’m down to about 500.
All the relationship books - […]

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Oh, just go read the whole thing.

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Classic Jerry Jeff Walker:

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Steve Earle & The Dukes at the Bottom Line, 1986:

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Jerry Jeff Walker:

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Bonnie Raitt:

I knew something happened; she’d left messages almost every night this week after I’d gone to bed. (She always forgets about the time zone difference.) And tonight, she told me: Her boyfriend had dumped her and her heart was broken.
I listened. She told me he wanted her to move to back to Norway with […]

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Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East, 1971:

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Bonnie Bramlett covers James Brown at the Bottom Line, 1978:

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Little Feat:

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Jimi Hendrix:

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Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood:

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Krugman:
What about polls that still seem to give John McCain a good chance of winning? Pay no attention, say the experts: general election polls this early tell you almost nothing about what will happen in November. Remember 1992: as late as June, Gallup put Ross Perot in first place, Bill Clinton in third.
There’s just one […]

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Here’s your tax cuts, America!
America’s sewers are showing their age. Deteriorating pipes, overwhelmed by volumes of water they were never designed to carry, release billions of gallons of raw sewage into rivers and streams each year. The spills make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants.
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Hundreds of municipal sewer authorities […]

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I’m hoping things get to the point where my boss allows us to work from home, because even my relatively short commute is becoming very expensive:
As prices near — or in some places top — $4 a gallon, most Americans say they are cutting back on other household spending, seriously considering buying more fuel-efficient cars […]

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And of course this will probably be used as yet another compelling reason why we have to attack Iran:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hezbollah gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday as sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon’s bloody 15-year civil war raged in the capital.
At least […]

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