Who's Crying Now

And yet, what if there was a band, or even a single album, that was falsely persecuted -- the musical version of a Death Row inmate who didn't commit the crime? What if every 1980s critic was completely wrong about that album's alleged failings, a fact that becomes instantly apparent just by playing it again?*

(mostly for Truck)

McPheever

Hang on, I've had this dream.
Plus, did I see what I thought I saw during her performance last night? I think Ryan saw it, too.

easy, hippies

"Decider" is a word. I looked it up.

the meta

The other night, I had a dream wherein I had a dream, and posted about it on my blog. No foolin.

a nickel for your penny

This is blowing my mind.

Are they really losing money on every penny they make? That's crazy. I kind of lost understanding of macroeconomics after Nixon took us off the gold standard. Now this is just totally messing with my head. What, for example, does this mean for the cost of iTunes songs???

TMI

This might be a bit of inside baseball, but I think it's going to be very interesting to see how this eventually pans out.

You have Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters receiving criminally leaked information for their stories. Basically, newspapers are relying on people breaking the law. This is an untenable situation, obviously, especially during a time of war. It's going to be interesting how the newspapers react to this. One the one, more predictable, hand it's easy to imagine them opposing these investigations on free speech grounds. They'll whine and howl about how this is another example of Chimpy McHitler crushing their dissent. But on the other hand, they've largely brought this on themselves. They've taken great pains to attempt to damage the gov't by blowing up ludicrous non-stories (NSA program, Valerie Plame investigation, Gitmo, etc.) to the point that gullible senators believe these are impeachable offenses.

Newspapers need to start being much more responsible about their sources. This is the bottom line. I think many people have forgotten about Jayson Blair already, and how that kerfuffle really began the modern debate about anonymous sourcing. When they rely on anonymous sources betraying illegal information, especially information that is largely politically motivated and of dubious veracity, they damage only their own credibility.


Ha.

This is bad-ass

I use these shits all the time. Now, if they would only set it up so that we could get money for the Russian site....

encapsulation

If you didn't see this on DataWhat yesterday, you should. It's President Bush operating and talking about the music on his iPod. Brit Hume is not amused, and keeps trying to steer the convo back to politics, shame on him. And I'm not exactly sure why the reporter is so smug. Anyway, Boosh seems to know his iPod lineage, which is impressive. And I'm wondering if the "Alejandro" he name-checks is Alejandro Escovedo, which would be very impressive indeed.

What rhymes with "preaching to the choir?"

Since Neil Young insists on rhyming every single line in every single song, I'm wondering how he's going to handle some of the trickier terminology and names for this project. Let's help.

"Baghdad" can rhyme with..."revenge for attack on his dad"
"Iraq" can rhyme with "...a hack" (as in, G-Dub is...)
"blood for oil" can rhyme with "cheap shot, bandwagon-jumping publicity stunt"
"crushing of dissent" can rhyme with "Oh, wait. Nobody cares what I think because I'm fucking Canadian."

Here's some diversity for ya

“…we celebrate and learn from our diversity and we value individual differences. Academic freedom is defended within an environment of civility, tolerance, and mutual respect.”

Obviously.


UPDATE:

It turns out that Scott Savage, the librarian who is charged with sexual orientation harassment because he had recommended that the school assign to freshmen an apparently anti-gay book, is a conservative Quaker who has given up many modern things, including conventional schooling — his wife home-schools (or at least home-schooled) their five children — and cars; he takes a horse and buggy to work. ...

And perhaps there is also a broader connection to the persistent talk about "diversity" on campus. I suspect that Scott Savage's presence and participation adds more to the cultural diversity of the campus than does the presence and participation of most other faculty, students, and staff. But of course one aspect of cultural diversity is that people who belong to some cultures might not share the dominant university culture's view on some aspects, such as sexual behavior, and might even say things that some see as offensive. What a surprise.

(D-the left coast)

The other day I heard Sen. Boxer insist that Iran is “five to ten years away” from developing a nuclear device, and thus our current focus should be on Congressional hearings to investigate the manipulation of intelligence that led us to invade poor old irrelevant Monaco in the sand, Iraq. (I’m paraphrasing.)

She may be right. I assume her projections were based on information to which Senators are privy. If so, did she just leak classified information? If she is wrong, might we ask if she ignored contrary reports and cherry-picked the data? If she is wrong, and Iran not only has a bomb in, oh, 16 days, and uses it down the road, will there be an investigation to determine why and how she came to her conclusions and voted accordingly?*

Take your time, asshole

ASHWAUBENON, WI—Green Bay Packers front-office officials have informed three-time MVP Brett Favre they can wait for his decision on whether or not he's planning to retire for "as long as it fucking takes." ...
"It's not like we have to make any major decisions that all hinge on whether or not he's returning, after all. We'll just ride around on our lawn tractors on our farm in Mississippi while we wait for him to make up his goddamn mind."

That is one pissed off bunny

The Easter Bunny hates you.

the hippie hippie snark

I'm pretty good at hippie snark, I think, but I would never flatter myself to think that I could write anything as spot-on and hilarious as this.

Oh, wait... It's not satire? Oh, man...

a little too ironic

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis.

Or $600 artfully beat-up jeans, as it were. How (dare we say it?!?!?) ironic that Gen X-ers have grown up to perfect the pathetic Boomer nostalgia they allegedly rage against. I can't fucking wait for these guys' kids, whom they treat like a fucking iPod, as if they were cultural accessories to fill up with their taste, get to be teenagers. These parents think they won't rebel. Hah. But what if they do?

Or perhaps we can look forward—at least if Family Ties can be trusted—to a new generation of buttoned-down, high-strung Alex P. Keaton–type conservative teenagers. This is something the Grups have considered. When I asked Hermelin her worst fear, she laughed and said, “Our kids are going to become Republicans.”

But, wait...

“The worst nightmare for a quote-unquote alternadad,’ ” he says, “is that [the child] grow up to be something he doesn’t want to be.”

What if the kid grew up wanting to Republican!?!? We'd have to invent an entirely new level of irony. It could be the irony to end all irony! Or at least we can hope it will.