Nanci Griffith at the Opry:
http://youtu.be/Yx6BnpoRgCo
Month: February 2013
Breathe you my dreams
Trixie Whitley:
No myth
Michael Penn:
http://youtu.be/xZ_S-g0bap8
Jambalaya
Emmy Lou and the Hot Band:
Ohh shoot
The stories, they write themselves!
The gulag
Remember when we looked down on the Soviets for the human rights violations in their prison camps? Good times!
Thrift store
My friend figured out this hit song by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis is why thrift stores are picked clean lately:
Hanger for governor
Looks like we have a populist progressive in the fight (no, not freaking Allyson Schwartz, who’s now a Blue Dog).
Remember, early money is key. If you don’t want a Blue Dog Dem in the state house, throw Hanger a couple of bucks. He’s going to need it against big-bucks Schwartz.
Drone memos
CodePink is urging people to sign their petition to release the drone memos with a fake letter from Jon Stewart.
The telecom monopoly
Go listen to the Majority Report:
Law Professor Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, explained why the Internet should be treated like a electricity, why Wired access is essential for success in today’s economy, why private companies have no incentive to provide universal access, the industry push back against her ideas, why market concentration is so high in the wireless market and educating the public on the need for an communications policy.