…I’m thinking it’s coming time to retire the “Wreck Brow.” If you want to recommend something, you know how to do it: Put up a quick post, as an “aside “or not. If you really want to make it easy…
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Word Press Updated
WordPress has just come up with a new version – 3.3, nicknamed “Sonny” in honor of the saxophonist Sonny Stitt – with several new features, including “flyout” rather than static admin menus, and a “drag and drop” interface for adding…
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Go ask Osama when he’s full fathom five
“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al-Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement… or whoever’s left out there.”
70 years ago
After such debates, an Obama victory would signify more than just the re-election of a moderately popular president over an opponent who fails to inspire the base of his own party—as happened with both Bob Dole in 1996 and John Kerry in 2004. It would expose the moral and logical defects of the conservative ideology that has been mostly dominant in the U.S. since 1980, even under Democratic presidents. Then, perhaps, a true liberal revival could begin.
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fear the Newtening
Gingrich is like the heavy-metal roadie your daughter brings home after having fallen for the motorcycle guy, the drug dealer, and that creepy way-too-old one. She lost interest in all of them, so no reason to worry too much about…
Something called “NBA basketball” for Xmas…
N.B.A. and Players Reach Deal to End Lockout – NYTimes.com The deal was reached about 3 a.m. Saturday, on the 149th day of the lockout, after a final 15-hour bargaining session at the law offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges…
Thot youse blues-lovers might wanna note this
via GoodShit Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent has described “Last Kind Words” as “one of the most imaginatively constructed guitar arrangments of its era….” Twould be interesting to hear someone try to re-produce or expand upon…