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Greed is Good!

And here, you thought it had lately gone out of style!

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Never Gonna Change

Drive By Truckers:

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Lawyers, Guns and Money

The late, great Warren Zevon:

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Brighter Discontent

The Submarines:

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Sky Pilot

Eric Burdon:

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The Patriot Game


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The Guinea Pig Song


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The Three-Point Line

And speaking of rule changes….

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I Found Love

Lone Justice:

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Very Strange Thing

Watching a presidential press conference and not having a visceral need to change the channel.

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It’ll Cost Ya

It will ultimately be a good thing. In addition to the need to recycle, plastic bags are a time-consuming (and expensive) litter problem:
In its struggle to make New York more green, the Bloomberg administration has tried discouraging people from using plastic bags. It has taken out ads beseeching residents to use cloth bags and set [...]

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Uranus the Magician

Gustav Holst’s “The Planets Op. 32″:

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Don’t Toss Us Away

Lone Justice with Maria McKee:

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David Sirota:
In the coming days, I guarantee you there will be many reasons to feel cynical. Hell, only hours after one of the most powerful and inspirational election victory speeches about “change” in recent memory, we learn that Obama is considering appointing various Clinton administration officials to top White House posts - some of them [...]

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Chief of Staff

According to the teevee, Rahm Emanuel has accepted the job.

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People Get Ready

Curtis Mayfield:

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Runoff in Georgia?

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) had to get more than 50% to win. So far, he didn’t. Looks like it’s going to a runoff!

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Sen. Tubes Wins

In Alaska? Holy smokes, they elected a felon!

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Quote of the Day

Susie’s brother, Mark, in comments:
I sure don’t feel like a full citizen tonight. The citizens of Florida have voted overwhelmingly to put discrimination against gay people into our state’s constitution. Homophobia, It’s The New Racism!
Visit with Mark here.
No word on Proposition 8 yet, but the news doesn’t look good.

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John McCain?

(Stolen from the Editors)
This post goes out to, my fellow former Booman Tribune front page writer, Susan over at No Quarter. Bless her shriveled, rotting heart.

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Jonathan Schwarz, with some astute commentary from May:
It’s September 12, 2001. You’re sitting in front of a TV, watching footage of the World Trade Center collapse over and over and over again.
All of a sudden, someone from seven years in the future walks out of a tiny temporal vortex, and tells you: George W. Bush [...]

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What To Watch For

On election night.

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MSNBC


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CNN Results

Just keep refreshing the page:

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Back

No line, but I was No. 60 and they’d only been open an hour. About average for a presidential, I think.
The local state rep, an R, had four people working the polls. When one of them approached me, I waved him off: “Sorry honey, no Republicans today.” There was one Democrat handing out [...]

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Even if Obama wins the election, it’s very important that we keep the pressure on about the bailout:
The Washington Post yesterday moved the Goldman ball forward in a good story reporting the concern of experts that AIG is stuck putting up more and more collateral as the value of its crummy assets declines and is [...]

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Open Thread

I’m going out to vote. Feel feel to share your experiences from your local polling place here.

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Shift

Grizzly Bear, recorded in a Parisian bathroom:

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Wishin’ And Hopin’

I totally stole this from Avedon: Dusty Springfield:

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R.I.P.

Madelyn Dunham, 86.

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