Tuesday Premeditated Twenty

Man, check out these music picks from the candidates du jour.

You can practically feel the focus groups oozing out of McCain's picks. ABBA?...really?...twice?

Obama's are a tad less obvious...dig that Fugees/'Clef song tho'.

Let's start at the very beginning...

I suppose that it's too much to ask that anyone from the current administration might have a gander at this document.

I downloaded the .pdf and was overwhelmed by the first few pages.

Ah well, perhaps Secretary of State Biden will have a go at it once he's Barack's main man in the Middle East next year.

Fuck tha gov'mint

Have you read about this case...I hadn't.

Friday Random Ten

See No Evil--Television
She's Not Mine Anymore--Robert Gordon
Genitalia Of A Fool--Glenn Tilbrook
All The Roadrunning--Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Unemployable--Pearl Jam
Sex, Love & Money--Mos Def
Down There By The Train--Tom Waits
Love For Sale--Elvis Costello
Throughout--Bill Frisell & Petra Hayden
The Night That Never Sleeps--The Cat Empire

Darn Sticker Hippies

It's so good when it happens nice.

Obama 1--McCain 0

Sy Hersh

The best reporter in 'Murka is up to his old tricks of exposing the Cheneyites who are also up their old bag of chicanery yet again.

All we have to do is wait them out for the next 168 days...

Friday Random Ten

Long View--Green Day
Cruel To Be Kind--Nick Lowe
Readin', Rightin', Rte. 23--Dwight Yoakam
Dream All Day--The Posies
Electricityscape--The Strokes
Driven To Tears--The Police
Little Motel--Modest Mouse
You Curse At Girls--Fountains Of Wayne
Public Pervert--Interpol
Pork And Beans--Weezer

Hiram Bullock

When I lived in the city, I knew some people who knew some people who were tight with Hiram Bullock. Everyone always said that he was a great guitar player and a really sweet guy.

I'd agree. He will be missed.

(h/t to the Redman)

He's a terrorist!

Keepin' it real with LeBron.

The one thing I always disliked about Michael Jordon was his aversion to controversy on things political when he was the most influential sports star/human on the planet. Tiger Woods has certainly picked up the mantle from Mike of passive non-confrontation that his Nike overlords require from their wage slaves.

When you think back of some of the great athletes of the very near past, Ali, Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Rosey Greer, Kareem; they were all very actively involved in the politics of their era and, if memory serves, they all stood proudly with the left.

So, good on Bron. He's taking a real risk here with the powers that be in Beaverton and probably with the NBA and the White House as well right before the Olympics. As for the fans, I doubt that there are many rabid McCain hoopsters out there.

Old man got no hops. Obama got game.

Swoosh that, muthafuckas.

Paul Newman

How cool is Paul Newman?

This cool.

Unitarians

Driftglass has a good post about the murders in Knoxville over the weekend.

And while we're on the topic of religious hatred and intolerance, Digby, has some insights too.

They say she rides on a pale horse...

It's common knowledge that death seems to come in threes for the famous. The ultra right has lost some important beacons of their twisted belief system of late in the forms of Jesse Helms and Tony Snow.

Now comes the news that Bob Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Now I know that I shouldn't celebrate the speedy demise of someone regardless of my utter distaste for them as a human but I'm in the clear on this one....Novakula ain't human. He's already undead so there's no point in not being irreverent.

Brain tumors are particularly fatal and the shelf life for the living is blissfully short. So, go back to where thee came from, Bob. And I'll keep wearing that garlic necklace just in case...

Fuck.

Things have been really quiet lately and seemed to be cautiously stable. Then this happens.

Like I said. Fuck.

Friday Random Ten

Anytime--My Morning Jacket
As Is Now--Paul Weller
World Wide Suicide--Pearl Jam
To Be Someone--The Jam
Song 2--Blur
Senses Working Overtime--XTC
Words So Leisured--Franz Ferdinand
Girl--Stereophonics
Lines In The Suit--Spoon
Spitting Games--Snow Patrol

Say it ain't so...

I suppose that I can take Ogelbay Norton, Office Max, TRW, BP, C.C. Sabathia and many others over the years all fleeing from the Cleve. However, I for one, refuse to accept the loss of these particular cultural icons. The dude does not abide.

Fucking Canada.

1-2-3...let's all have a pity party

Awwwwww....now isn't this just a cryin' fuckin' shame. Poor twee bastards. Just wait until November...they won't know what hit 'em.

Mayberry Liberry

This just in from Mike R...

The George W Bush Presidential Library.
The Library will include:

• The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
• The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.
• The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show up.
• The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
• The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.
• The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
• The National Debt room which is huge and has no ceiling.
• The "Tax Cut" Room with entry only to the wealthy.
• The "Economy Room" which is in the toilet.
• The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
• The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shotgun gallery.
• The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.
• The Supreme Court Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.
• The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet a Republican Senator from Idaho.
• The 'Decider Room' complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.
• The speech preparation room which has a WW II word scrambler.
• The museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate the President's accomplishments.
• Admission: Republicans: free; Democrats: $1,000 or 3 Euros.

Goofy Blog look

Could any of you gentle readers out there confirm that the whole layout of this blog looks effed up? I started posting from a new computer (MacBook Pro!) yesterday and it seems to have scrambled all of my formatting when I view the page.

I await your sage replies.

(Update. It was most assuredly scrambled so I went to a whole new template)...deal with it.

Al Franken

Frank Rich

Frank weighs in on Mayor McCottage Cheese's veep picks and on his luddite knowledge of technology.