Birdsong
May 05Someone must have made this comparison before, but I haven’t seen it: Glenn Frey is the McCartney of the Eagles, and Don Henley is the Lennon.
Plumbing the Depths
May 05Sam “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher famously said the following two stupid things: People don’t understand the dictionary – it’s called queer. ‘Queer’ means strange and unusual. It’s not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, [...]
Prepare to Be Judged
May 05There’s speculation that Obama’s pick to replace Justice Souter will be a woman or a minority. He’s also said that it should be someone with empathy. But presumably past experience as a judge would be a plus too. I have found the ideal candidate.
NAACP <3 Ron Paul
May 05Speaking of Maddow, she just had a quite friendly interview with Ron Paul. (Something Olbermann has yet to do AFAIK, I might add.) And then in an interview afterward with NAACP President Ben Jealous, the latter opined that “Ron Paul had it right” about the importance of adhering to the Constitution. OK, this isn’t ALL-style [...]
Creation or Evolution?
May 05Rachel Maddow just said she’s going to talk about the “creation and evolution” of the torture memos. A reconciliationist, evidently.
The Pale Prince of Crime
May 05Beginning in the 1890s and continuing as far as the 1970s, a series of British pulp stories by various authors, collaborating in what nowadays would be called a “shared universe,” chronicled the adventures of a detective named Sexton Blake. The stories were broadly similar, I gather, to the Sherlock Holmes stories, though with more of [...]
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