What Tbogg said.

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I was reading this article about how women, if they figure out and understand the patterns in their past failed relationships, are better positioned to have a healthy one.

So I took a look at my pattern of semi-serious relationships: The main thing they had in common was that, with only one exception, they were musicians. (The other one mostly played with people’s heads.) One played bass and drums, the Dead Ex played the banjo and guitar, one was a piano player, another one played rhythm guitar, the next one was a drummer, the next one played bass, guitar and keyboard, another played bass, and yet another one played keyboards. (Oddly enough, these lips have never touched those of a lead guitarist.)

So what I figured out is, it wasn’t so much that I wanted relationships — I wanted a band!

The next time, I’m gonna make it simple. I’ll just look for someone who owns a studio.

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Mick et al:

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River Deep Mountain High — Ike and Tina Turner
I’m In Love With a Girl — Big Star
On the Rebound — Ben Vaugh Combo
Will You Love Me Tomorrow — Carole King
I Will Survive — Cake
Give It Up or Let Me Go — Bonnie Raitt
I Don’t Want to Play — Ellen McIlwaine

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He cuts a Dr. Laura-like character off at the knees:

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Beach Boys:

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Linda does the Buddy Holly tune:

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It’ll all be fine:

WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.

But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, accepted responsibility for the death and paid blood money to the offended tribes.

The strike, though, was not the work of Mr. Saleh’s decrepit Soviet-era air force. It was a secret mission by the United States military, according to American officials, at least the fourth such assault on Al Qaeda in the arid mountains and deserts of Yemen since December.

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I agree. So Obama said people have a right to build their Muslim community center — while implying it might not be wise.

Does this guy have any real convictions? Other his faith in Tim Geithner, I mean.

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Abbey Lincoln, 80.

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