Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Right wing columnist Robert Novak belatedly dies at the age of 78

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WWW --He was a demagogue, a player, a hater, and just one-of-many jackapes screeching in our collective-ear for the last 30+ years, ramming ...
Monday, August 17, 2009

"You can't change the world"

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WWW --Ever heard of global warming? Economic development? You know, I was hoping to change the world by lunch tomorrow, but I can't fit ...

Sgt. Rock demoted in Waco, Texas

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Waco, Texas --Ted Nugent...where to begin, where to begin? Mmm-hmm. The Waco Tribune fired Nugent this last week for being Ted Nugent, an un...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Dude: Don't go to Chicago tomorrow, dude.

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Chicago, Illinois --You know, once the home to my father until his family wouldn't pay protection money to "the Outfit" (Capon...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Health care: where's my change?

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The campaign trail --Where's my single-payer? 70% of the public wants it. After that, it's all confusion, lies, and political theate...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Woodstock, 40 years later

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WWW --Well, it gave Carlos Santana, Richie Havens, and Mungo Jerry (I jest), a great career, and CSN is now charging $100-a-ticket (and u...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Les Paul (1915-2009)

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WWW --The man was a giant. Long after his popular singles with his wife Mary Ford in the 1940s until the early 1960s, Paul was noted for bei...

AP: "Brooks & Dunn: Out of new ideas after 20 years"

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AP Universe -- Who said Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn ever had any ideas musically? Them. "You know what, I think we've just exhauste...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Anticipating Rob Zombie's Halloween II

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WWW --YES, I loved Rob Zombie's reimaging of John Carpenter's original Halloween, I thought it was extraordinary and worthwhile, alm...

Why do we need Huffington Post at all: top stories today at Huffington Post...

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WWW --Besides the fact that Arianna Huffington's incapable of making love to the Hollywood sign or George Clooney (she deserves both jab...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The House Judiciary Committee releases the Rove/Miers interviews related to the U.S. Attorney firings (with some excerpts from the Miers testimony)

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Washington D.C. --And so, we finally have a window, a real window, into what was going on at the DOJ during the time leading-up to the U.S. ...

Arlen Specter's Town Hall and the articulate, gesticulating chick in the blue shirt

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Lebanon, Pennsylvania --A very well-spoken woman, I must say. One might be mistaken in thinking that she was the ringleader of all the jacka...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

"The Underground Railroad never happened."

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Michiana --Of course it did, and it was more widespread than bigots and racists here in Northern Indiana would care to admit. Whether t...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Purple Mays, all in my brain...

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WWW --You know, who woulda thunk? Me. Millions who aren't pathetically naive. Billy Mays, a not-a-man who was a carnival barker for fift...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Coming soon: An essay on connections between a Tiananmen Square account and the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger )

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WWW --Like most of my observations, this comes through serendipity. In 1989, I was told some very shocking accounts behind the violent rep...