One more, and I was just going through some stuff and came across the “Dazed and Confused” soundtrack (actually vol. 1 and 2), pretty much the best overview you’ll get of mid-’70s, blew off study hall to go hang out behind the gym, smoke cigarettes and other things music. You know who you are.
This is […]

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Always liked this band, though they started off completely bubble-gummy then wound up doing prog-rock, “Love is Like Oxygen,” etc. This is pure Bowie-era glam - dig the capes. In high school me and a couple buddies did this for an “air band” contest, and lost. Possibly because we didn’t have capes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBDivsSe3k

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Heh. Stumbled across this from one Dominic Ierace, good Pittsburgh boy (Ellwood City, actually) who went by Donnie Iris, and cranked this one out circa 1980. Video looks like it cost about 50 bucks to shoot, if that.

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

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So now, below is a bit linking a ThinkProgress piece in which it appears as if John McCain, giving a speach on the heinousness of war, copped someone else’s words.
Not true. As ThinkProgress later acknowledged, it appears as if someone (Adm. Timothy Ziemer) actually pinched McCain’s speech, initially delivered in 2001, recycled last week.
So ThinkProgress […]

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So I was thinking of going to the Obama thing on Monday, except Monday is the day I’m home with the little girl.
Also, the tickets are all gone.
As in, people were waiting in line about 5 a.m. this morning to get tickets. The line at one point stretched for five blocks.
In Lancaster County.
And the Obama […]

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For years now there have been rumors circulating that Wegman’s is interested in a spot in Lancaster County, and why not. Economically this may be one of the most dynamic communities in the commonwealth; there’s money to be made here (which is why all those other national retailers keep coming). Though I’ve also been told […]

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In which Time Magazine asks: With the end of the Bush era, is Fox News the equivalent of yesterday’s news?
Fox is still the top-rated news channel, but there are signs it’s plateauing. Its ratings started to lag in 2006, and in February, CNN’s prime time (boosted by several presidential debates) beat Fox among 25-to-54-year-olds for the […]

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Ain’t we got fun:
Senators joined the House on Thursday in approving subpoenas to force President Bush’s political adviser and other aides to testify about the firings of federal prosecutors.
His committee, by voice vote Thursday, gave Leahy authority to issue subpoenas for Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and her deputy, William Kelley. The House […]

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Co-worker brought me in his copy of “Downfall,” (Der Untergang), the German movie about the last 10 days of Hitler, deep in his fuhrerbunker as the Red Army fights its way into Berlin. I was interested in the subject long before I started studying history again, but especially now - in that this semester’s class […]

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Spencer Ackerman on why neoconservatism is constitutionally incapable of actually vanquishing al-Qaida:
And as long as we’re talking COIN, let’s tie this all together. Barnett has this line about Obama fighting al-Qaeda but not al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is something John McCain mentioned in his speech yesterday. But look at who AQI is. According to this […]

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Curious to see the news that Ron Harper is discontinuing 5thestate.com, which has led to a long discussion here. I’m going to go out on a limb and say I doubt we’ve seen the last of Ron.
At the same time, though, if in fact he’s burned out… well, that happens a lot in the blogosphere.
In fact, I’ve […]

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Dunno whether it carries the same weight as Rendell backing Hillary, but significant nonetheless.

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Hm. So John McCain gives a speech in which he bemoans the “million tragedies” inherent in war. ThinkProgress notes that his words, though, sounded a little familiar…
These lines are not McCain’s own. As TP reader 5th Estate discovered, they were in fact taken largely from a 1996 speech by ret. Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer. Below […]

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Sweet. Looks like Obama’s going to be here on Monday. Maybe. Article not exactly 100 percent definitive, but probably because the campaign itself didn’t say for sure.
In any event, it will be veddy veddy intersting to see if the crowd measures up to Hillary’s soiree at Millersville. I’d love to take the little boy but […]

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Taken out a home equity loan recently? The banks are making sure you’ll pay it back:
As the housing market spirals downward, home equity loans, which turn home sweet home into cash sweet cash, are becoming the next flash point in the mortgage crisis.
Americans owe a staggering $1.1 trillion on home equity loans — and banks […]

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John Cole unearths a good one:
“I want to run a very positive campaign, and I sure don’t want Democrats or supporters of Democrats to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction,” she said. “I think we should stay focused on what we’re going to do for America.”
-Hillary Clinton, February 2007

Yes - yes, that would […]

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Via Matt Y., one might wonder why, in Iraq, the United States happens to supporting factions that in fact have stronger ties to Iran than does Moqtada al-Sadr - who is far more popular and thus might actually, you know, get some things done.
You might think maybe there’s some strategery behind such decisions. The fine […]

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Andrew Bacevich tells us why it’s Barack Obama:
For conservatives to hope the election of yet another Republican will set things right is surely in vain. To believe that President John McCain will reduce the scope and intrusiveness of federal authority, cut the imperial presidency down to size, and put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis […]

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I got news for Hillary and the Democratic Party in general, if indeed this is her strategy:
Her goal is to defeat Obama by destroying him in the next month or two, not by making a positive argument about herself. And if she cannot destroy him this time, and he gets the nomination, she will have […]

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Saw this elsewhere, perfect for TalkBack - though you’d have to throw about four “convention center!” balloons into the last panel.

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