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Friday, Jan 20, 2006
heel to toe
chamber popping with The Clogs
Monday, Jan 16, 2006
hasidic reggaemon
"Matisyahu will be the musical guest on Late Night with David Letterman, Monday, January 16th"
Sunday, Jan 15, 2006
sing out sister
"We are at war. When President Bush concedes that there exist "responsible ways" to debate our progress in the War on Terror, he is being overly generous (to his credit). But there is simply no "responsible way" to undermine through criticism of any stripe our leadership's actions to protect us, no matter how plainly mistaken, inadequate or served by ulterior motives those actions may be. There may be time for future historians to do so, though the nature of this particular war means that the proper time for such revisionism will be at least decades from now."
Friday, Jan 06, 2006
post-it notes
richard lewis gets huffy. must be that new kidney.
Tuesday, Jan 03, 2006
real to real
top 20 song list for 2005 w/mp3s
sing ed
"Amadou et Mariam - Coulibaly"also, their website
just a thought
we could have more fun than we do
Friday, Dec 30, 2005
holmes schooled
"Oliver Wendell Holmes: "People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism."
beck to the future
nick drake he aint.
empire states
"How will the Establishment deal with this direct challenge? The past few years give little grounds for hope: the Democrats spineless, conflicted, co-opted and corrupt; the Republicans slavish, bellicose, cruel and criminal; the media timorous, witless, corporate-controlled; big business absolutely rolling in gravy from the autocrat's larder; academia cowed, silenced, ignored, demonized; the military acquiescent in criminal aggression, top-heavy with time-servers currying autocratic favor. Only the courts provide some stray sparks of hope, although they too are now loaded with political sycophants, corporate bagmen and knuckle-dragging throwbacks produced by the Right's decades-long devolution of American jurisprudence. Prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald and Elliot Spitzer "keep hope alive," but their efforts will mean little in a system where lawlessness at the top has been countenanced by the rest of the Establishment. And in any case, the outcome of their work lies ultimately with the Supreme Court -- the same court that shredded the Constitution in awarding power to Bush in the first place, and which is now led by a Bushist apparatchik."