Going to see the goat drop tonight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaFue_KvoQ

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Via TPM, how do we know the recording industry is dead and asking to be buried?
Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one […]

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(Very) brief stopover at the DipCo tonight to see the Pharoahs - it was like Old Manheim Township home week, so I fled as quickly as possible. Hung around long enough to hear some Police, another ’80s band that doesn’t suck, though I forget that sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnqjZFdhkY

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Via John Cole at Balloon Juice, we see that actual conservatives like John Derbyshire can still make a tremendous amount of sense:
But suppose Iran were to attain her hegemonic ambition. This will hurt the U.S.A. … how? You say it would be putting “the economic health of the nation in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hands.” How would it […]

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Well, why else would the network be excluding him from its upcoming debate? Whether the network thinks him “serious” or not (and they should, based on his fundraising totals) - it seems fishy, to say the least, to consciously exclude the candidate who frankly is generating more heat than virtually any other Republican.
But maybe we […]

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Because dead men may not tell tales, but at Comcast, they continue to get paid. As Chris over at AmericaBlog notes:
The family of Comcast founder Roberts will continue to receive his salary ($1.8 million/year) for five years after he dies. They already sit on the board of directors but that is just not enough. His […]

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Only in Texas…

Coming Soon to Texas: A Master’s Degree in Creation Science
Because Baylor University is not doing enough to plumb the seas for Noah’s Ark, an advisory committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has recommended that the Institute for Creation Research be given the authority to grant Master’s degrees in science education.
So is […]

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Whew. Thompson’s really melting down, isn’t he?
During what must’ve been a strenuous day of campaigning in Iowa, GOP candidate Fred Thompson told potential voters at his one-and-only appearance that immigrants deserve some of the blame for the mortgage crisis.
“A lot of them couldn’t communicate with the people they were getting the mortgage from,” the lagging […]

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In which, I kid you not, Chewie’s father is named “Itchy” and his son, “Lumpy.” Graphics straight outta “Land of the Lost.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnVcbWQ2cg

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Drove past Park City on the way in this morning around 8:30. Place was packed.
People are crazy.

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Every year in late December I’m so taken with the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack that I say I’m going to go pick up more Vince Guaraldi. And I never do.
But hope springs eternal this time of year, right? So maybe, just maybe. And over the next few weeks, may all your own […]

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More Sloan, newer stuff. A sort of haunting, delicate song but brutally callous in its lyrics. Based on a real-life deal, apparently. But I suppose you couldn’t write a song this jarringly convincing if it weren’t.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywyLheEFto

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Story running in the NYT tomorrow about how J. Edgar Hoover, on the eve of the Korean War, wanted Truman to suspend Habeus Corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty:
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage.” The F.B.I […]

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Call it Sloan Saturday, and I wanted to post this for the title along - such a liberal thing! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C72YVY-puNs

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…and the liquor store was jam-packed, here in good old teetotaling Lancaster County…

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Pertinent to this discussion, Sullivan asks today:
To put it more bluntly: It seems to me that those who are making a fine distinction between “torture” and even waterboarding - and allowing waterboarding - have no logical basis for objecting to what we saw in many of the photographs at Abu Ghraib. Or rather their only […]

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It’s infringing on my beer!
JUST as the festive season gets going, drinkers in America are finding their favourite beer suddenly more expensive or even—horrors!—not available at all. Hit by price increases and shortages, many breweries, particularly the small “craft brewers” and the even smaller microbreweries, are being forced to raise prices, make do with modified […]

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If the Beatles ‘64 channeled Zeppelin…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I

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Meanwhile, back at the Mideastern ranch:
At a minimum, the gateway opens for Russia’s deeper involvement in Iran’s ambitious program for civil nuclear energy. But nuclear energy is not the be-all and end-all of Russo-Iranian cooperation. Iran is a crucially important interlocutor for Russia in the field of energy. The Bushehr settlement is a necessary prerequisite […]

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Circuit City tanking, even in the holiday season:
Circuit City Stores Inc., the second-largest U.S. consumer-electronics retailer, reported a fifth straight loss and said it won’t make money this quarter, when it typically generates most of its annual profit.
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Circuit City, which cut 10 percent of its U.S. workforce this year and hired people willing to work […]

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