Archive for March, 2007
Getting What We Deserve
In the past few days, I’ve seen a few more articles on the rapidly disappearing bee population.
From a kos diary:
Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later.
That hypothesis could soon be put to the test.
Now in Spain, hundreds of thousands of colonies have been lost [...]
Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round
A classic from the Dead Kennedys.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Stanley Brothers
My son’s favorite country song is “In the Pines”, and it’s one of mine too. The lyrics, written in prison by Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter, are about as lonesome as you can get, and the Stanley Brothers do a great job in this video clip from the 1960s. Banjo player Ralph Stanley’s tenor has [...]
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Louvin Brothers
When you’re feeling heartbroken and miserable, there is nothing better (nor worse) than listening to real country music, especially the high lonesome singing of brother duets. The Blue Sky Boys and the Delmore Brothers are incredible, but the gold standard is the Louvin Brothers, “the most influential harmony duet in country music history”.
As I [...]
meh
I haven’t been too busy as a blogger lately: there are a lot of reasons for that. It’s the busy time at work, and I’m trying to pump out the grants. This week, I’ve been more busy listening to the hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee and the GSA hearings in the house [...]
Read More..>>What the Purge Means
Must see.
Read More..>>The Banality of Evil
Karl Roves rap performance at the White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner (ht BMT, Atrios, C&L, and many more). It’s painful. You’ve been warned.
Loathesome toads, every single one of them. I have become a misanthrope.
Waiting On Brett
This post by Howie Klein is required reading. He blows my “Specter Knew” thesis to shreds: Booman, I owe you a beer. So who’s Tolman? He was Specter’s counsel on the Judiciary Committee, a holdover from the Hatch chairmanship that Arlen kept on. But it’s mroe than that:
Tolman was a counsel [...]
Music Stuff: Perfomance and Mastered Tracks
Just a quick announcement that my country band will be playing at the Tritone this Friday night. We haven’t exactly come up with a name yet, so for the evening we’re (ugh) The Phillbillies. Dan, who I share bass and guitar duties with, came up with “Tears for Beers”, which I think is [...]
Read More..>>Turnabout
A couple of months ago, the Pweznit nominated Sam Fox, who donated $50,000 to the Swiftboat Liars in the 2004 presidential campaign, as Ambassador to Belgium.
When Fox came before the new Democratically-controlled Senate, who did he have to face? None other than Senator Kerry. The exchange was a hilarious exercise in turnabout, weaseling, [...]
