Month: December 2016

Midweek Cafe and Lounge Vol. 12

This week a video by Wire: Like many post-punk (or alt-rock, or whatever you may call them) bands that I grew up with, Wire could easily be written off as a “legacy” band. Their remaining members aren’t too...

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Right Wing Looney Tunes

Claudia Rosset, The Hill: If Russian claws dug into US politics, Obama — not Trump — let it happen Neo-conservatives cannot fail; they can only be failed. “Claudia Rosett is Foreign Policy Fellow with the...

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Oops, I Lost and Got a Promotion

Hey, do you want to guess what this picture is? Yeah, that’s the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry. It’s actually a mugshot taken of him when he was arrested in 2014 for “abuse of official capacity and...

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I’m Glad that Romney Didn’t Get the Job

If I were the editor of USA Today or McClatchy or the Associated Press or the New York Times, I’d tell all my writers that they must append the following blockquote to every mention of Mitt Romney from now until twenty...

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