Greed is Good!
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2008
And here, you thought it had lately gone out of style!
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2008
And here, you thought it had lately gone out of style!
Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2008
Drive By Truckers:
Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2008
The late, great Warren Zevon:
Posted in General on Nov 14th, 2008
The Submarines:
Eric Burdon:
Posted in General on Nov 11th, 2008
Posted in General on Nov 11th, 2008
Posted in General on Nov 9th, 2008
And speaking of rule changes….
Posted in General on Nov 8th, 2008
Lone Justice:
Posted in General on Nov 7th, 2008
Watching a presidential press conference and not having a visceral need to change the channel.
Posted in General on Nov 7th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in General on Nov 7th, 2008
Gustav Holst’s “The Planets Op. 32″:
Posted in General on Nov 6th, 2008
Lone Justice with Maria McKee:
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
According to the teevee, Rahm Emanuel has accepted the job.
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
Curtis Mayfield:
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
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!
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
In Alaska? Holy smokes, they elected a felon!
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
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.
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
(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.
Posted in General on Nov 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in General on Nov 4th, 2008
On election night.
Posted in General on Nov 4th, 2008
Just keep refreshing the page:
Posted in General, Politics As Usual, Power to the People on Nov 4th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, General, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on Nov 4th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in General on Nov 4th, 2008
I’m going out to vote. Feel feel to share your experiences from your local polling place here.
Grizzly Bear, recorded in a Parisian bathroom:
Posted in General on Nov 3rd, 2008
I totally stole this from Avedon: Dusty Springfield:
Madelyn Dunham, 86.
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