Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It's here! Could We Get Any Closer? is Jim Lauderdale's long-awaited follow-up to his Grammy award winning album The Bluegrass Diaries and this latest album is available exclusively for download only at JimLauderdale.com for the low price of $9.99! ...
WTFBLOG (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Well, I was figuratively flipping through the news of the web pages and came across an article regarding Rosie O’Donnell’s return to t.v. She plans on hosting a variety show (co-produced by another stand-up comedian) that will air in the near future. This set my train of thought in motion this early morn. At first, I [...]
ChurchGal (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Poor conservative Kathleen Parker. She's shocked - absolutely shocked - that today's political discourse has devolved so much. Oh, the invective hurled at her for suggesting Palin isn't fit for the Republican ticket. Goodness! The insults. The ire! The death threats!Such extreme partisanship has a crippling effect on government, which may be desirable at times, but not now. More important in the long...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Kathleen Parker, the syndicated conservative columnist who called on Sarah Palin to step off the national ticket, has been inundated with hate mail -- Palin fans telling her she ought to have been aborted, she should kill herself, she's a...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
I need a break from economics and politics. This weekend a local all girl band will be performing at the Egyptian Theater in Coos Bay. Their name is the Free Range Chicks and I bet they're better than the Dixie Chicks. Talking about chicks, here are our "girls" (and one of the "guys") sunning themselves on the porch.
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Last week wingnut columnist Kathleen Parker wrote a widely noted column calling for Sarah Palin to drop out of the vice-presidential race, concluding: Only Palin can save McCain, her party and the country she loves. She can bow out for...
CB Music (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are about to rock for Barack. It was announced today that the two music superstars will co-headline "Change Rocks," a concert for the campaign of democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday October 16 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Obama himself will also take part in the event, as will other "special guests" still to be disclosed
eclecticism (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Let's hope in the current economic meltdown, we find a way to keep our artists and composers close to home.
AskMen.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Is the franchise running strong or running on fumes?
At Home In The Wasteland (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Damn, I miss Aaron Sorkin: BARTLET: Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot...
Liberal Values (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Maureen Dowd described a meeting between Barack Obama and Jed Bartlett of The West Wing as written by Aaron Sorkin. Bartlett explains to Obama while some Americans might not support him: Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words [...]
The New SteveSilver.net (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
The best Maureen Dowd column of the year is, is in all the great ones, not actually written by Maureen Dowd. She handed it over to "West Wing" creator/ex-boyfriend Aaron Sorkin for an imagined conversation between Barack Obama and former...
Shouzer.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
NYTimes. Aaaron Sorkin. Obama meets Bartlet. Truly refreshing stuff. OBAMA I’m not. They pivoted off the argument that I was inexperienced to the criticism that I’m — wait for it — the Messiah, who, by the way, was a community organizer. When I speak I try to lead with inspiration and aptitude. How [...]
Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
"[T]he idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States...
