Trial over, we won - no defamation on the part of either Lancaster Newspapers or the Sun-Ledger newspapers. Jury was back in 45 minutes with the verdict.
Back to normal around here tomorrow maybe, though I need a day to clear all of this from my head. Have thought of virtually nothing else for more than […]

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Truer words were never spoken. As some of you might know, we’ve been indisposed for a while around here. And no, I’m not going to write about it. But I’d say this tune - from the Knack’s amazing debut album, the video from their performance at Carnegie Hall in 1979 - expresses the claustrophobia of the […]

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Because I’m in the mood. Same album, a little more acoustic. “Believe What You’re Saying.” And I do.
Posting sporadic over the next week or so. Thanks for stopping by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h4-7VD2c24

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This came up on Pandora today. (You do know about Pandora, right?) Bob Mould around 1993 - fuzz guitar and a killer melody. It is one of my favorite things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li4nL-uaJkw

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Juan Cole on the Pentagon official who dissed Hillary:
Who was she criticized by? Just one of the last Neoconservatives who hasn’t yet been forced out of office because he abused the public trust or who hasn’t yet slid into a criminality fostered by sublime arrogance.

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This had disappeared from YouTube for a while - absolutely devastating version of Keith Richards’ “Happy” from the Stones’ 1972 ”S.T.P.” tour, which may be the best/most storied rock and roll tour of all time. This is from the unreleased film shot on tour by Robert Frank (and once you read about it you understand why […]

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Apparently The Decider is so unpopular that lawyers in Upper Darby don’t even want his name mentioned in court, because they think it could tip the jury against them:
Attorneys Michael P. Laffey and Robert P. DiDomenicis of Holsten & Associates in Media, Pa., are defending Upper Darby Township, Pa., in a civil rights suit brought […]

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The Arizona music scene has produced some cool artists - I was a fan of the Gin Blossoms in the early ’90s, and I’ve got an old college buddy who fronts a band based in Tuscon, The Wyatts (”Tone, Truth, Twang”). I like the sound - Telecasters and a bit of a country feel welded to […]

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This came up on the MP3 player on the way to work. A few weeks aback I wrote about the southern belle from northern Virginia and how I used to swipe my parents’ car to go see her; this song played incessantly, and it’s one of those songs you come to associate with a certain […]

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Letter to the editor in today’s Era ends this way:
Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, for the world goes not well, but his kingdom comes!
Is there another newspaper, another community in America where people feel compelled to proselytize via letter to the editor?
Well, I’m sure there is. But I’m not real certain what […]

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The Leader undergoes a colonoscopy. Which means he will:
temporarily hand presidential powers over to Vice President Dick Cheney
So when can we expect the bombing runs over Tehran to begin?

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Now, this one is interesting. Conservatives are fond of claiming that the military itself supports the Leader and his war. William Marina produces some figures showing that “more than half of the Military and Veterans donating funds to the Republican Party candidates gave their monies to one candidate, Dr. Ron Paul.”
Paul is, of course, the […]

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Speaking of football, let’s punt the ball down the field some more:
Lynch said he had projected in March, when he arrived as part of the troop buildup, that it would take him about 15 months to accomplish his mission, which would be summer 2008.
Right. And then there’s Iraqi ambassador Ryan Crocker:
Crocker, speaking to the Senate […]

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This sort of thing just demonstrates, yet again, what a complete nincompoop O’Reilly is. Kos is no more a “hate site” than O’Reilly, himself, is the second coming of Goebbels.
Which leads to Atrios’s pertinent question:
I’ve long wondered why even careful historical comparisons being actions of a government and events in 1930s Germany, when made by […]

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Footbal season, that is. You will likely have to put up with some ranting about the Pittsburgh Steelers around this place, particularly in that they have a new coach, at least one All-Pro veteran is not happy with the situation and no one seems to know what this season’s going to look like. Could get […]

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Well, this is one thing I like about Hillary - like her husband (and unlike John Kerry), she doesn’t take this nonsense sitting down, she fights back - and hard.
Clinton responded Friday in a letter to Edelman’s boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asking if he agreed with Edelman’s charge.
She said Edelman had ducked her questions […]

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There appears to be a growing consensus that come September, Gen. David Petraeus is going to say exactly what the administration wants to hear, throw some red-meat to the Republican base by asserting that the surge is indeed making progress - and thus, we need to give it more time, and perhaps more troops, and […]

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Undersecretary of Defense slaps Hillary Clinton, claiming her questions about how the U.S. might eventually withdraw from Iraq “reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.”
Translation: Iraq is different from those conflicts. Because we are never leaving.

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When George Harrison died I was wandering around the web, reading various obits, and wound up on the BBC site, which was referencing bands that had been influenced by the Beatles’ sound. One of them was this band called Dodgy - the “sun-drenched guitars of Dodgy,” quoth the BBC.
Hmmm, I thought. Sun-drenched guitars. That sounds […]

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You’ve seen, probably, that Larry Flynt says he’s got about 30 “solid” names of pols and other notables connected to the D.C. Madam - and he was “shocked, especially, at one Senator.”
Which leads to all sorts of speculation. Brownback? Lieberman?
Santorum?
Well, he’s not a Senator anymore. And God doesn’t like me that much.

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