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X Stryker is also the proprietor of the currently-dormant poll analysis blog Election Inspection.
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Late Night Music Video: Dig For Fire, by The Pixies
They weren’t really fans of making music videos, so they always made sure to put in as little effort as possible. They are, however, the inspiration for nearly every band that followed them. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dBsBW9yjY[/youtube] are you looking for the mother lode? huh? no. no, my child, this is not my desire.
Late Night Music Video: Various Disgraces, by The Blam
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQqTQMYl3wU[/youtube] Heard it on an episode of The Office, and my wife immediately purchased it on iTunes. Money well spent, because I’d forgotten about it until this past weekend when I found it on her phone.
Late Night Music Video: Deeper Shade Of Soul, by Urban Dance Squad
Old School. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PNYNQqnvk[/youtube]
Late Night Humor: Mike Castle Shoop Da Whoop
Yeah, it’s a meme. Google “shoop da whoop”. Original photo credit: Washington Post
I heart Cory Booker
From Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker’s Twitter feed: @kamori07 Again, sorry bout the wait. Its a busy night in the city – I wish u & your family the best & I hope u still get the laundry done Stay there I am coming now myself. RT @kamori07 lets talk police response! I’m on […]
CT-Sen: I heart Richard Blumenthal
Mother Jones tells why Senator Dodd’s retirement and likely replacement by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is awesome news for progressives: Back in 2000, David Plotz wrote a great piece for Slate about Blumenthal, who was about to enter his second decade as Connecticut’s attorney general: Blumenthal was supposed to be “the Jewish Kennedy.” Now the […]
World News Roundup, 12/27
Here are the stories you probably aren’t seeing on TV tonight. 5 Ethiopian assassination plotters sentenced to death, 33 get life sentences UN Panel says Guinean junta leader should be tried for crimes against humanity Mortar attack on MPs in Somalia Feature: Eritreans fleeing into Sudan You know the situation is pretty bad when Sudan […]
Mike Castle: Gutless Hypocrite
Mike Castle, circa 2004: I supported the Medicare Prescription Drug bill because it was a historic opportunity, since the inception of the program in 1965, to add a pharmaceutical discount benefit to the program. While I realize the law is not perfect, it is certainly a step in the right direction, as the costs of […]
My favorite songs of the decade
I’m not going to throw the word “best” around – when Rolling Stone declares that Radiohead’s electrosomnolent “Kid A” to be the best album of the decade, it’s time to retire the idea of telling people your favorite things are objectively better than things that you don’t like. The point of this list is that […]
A Prairie Hate Companion
Apparently, NPR’s Garrison Keillor is on Bill O’Reilly’s side regarding the War On Christmas. OK, weird, but that’s not the part that bothers me. Check out this little excerpt from his screed in Wednesday’s Baltimore Sun, whereupon he’s quite angry about a somewhat secularized version of “Silent Night” sung at a Unitarian church in Cambridge, […]
Conservative Senators Love Mike Castle
Anyone who thinks Mike Castle would be some kind of moderate thorn in the side of the conservative GOP Senate minority leadership is fooling themselves. Among those senators who reported giving to Castle in October were Thad Cochran (Miss.), whose Senate Victory Fund PAC gave $10,000; Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), whose OrrinPAC donated $5,000; Pat […]
Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki
Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is. Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests in 2001. (Link: Parade) […]
The Castle Amendment – Bend Over!
Here is the amendment Mike Castle added to the GOP “Die Quickly” Health Insurance Bill. ‘‘In applying subparagraph (B), a group health plan (or a health insurance issuer with respect to health insurance coverage) may vary premiums and cost sharing by up to 50 percent of the value of the benefits under the plan (or […]
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