A 'Bone by any Other Name....

OMG. Slobberbone is going to tour! More later.....

Via JennB:

"IT'S OFFICIAL!!! Slobberbone will be on the road for a short midwest tour in august. Dates are still being confirmed. So far, this is what we have- Aug. 13- Chicago/Abbey Pub Aug. 14- Port Washington, Wisconsin Aug. 16- 18 Green Bay, Wisconsin/Oneida Casino with Jason Isbell Aug. 21- Dallas/Granada Theater I will keep you updated on the Minneapolis and St. Louis shows once they are finalized. Thanks, jess"

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Shepard Smith is the only occasional good thing at FAUX.

The Raw Story | Fox anchor: 'This is America! We do not fucking torture':

"Fox News' Shepard Smith is pissed.

Speaking on Fox News' online webcast, The Strategy Room, the Fox anchor responded brashly to the question of whether the United States should use torture in interrogating detainees.

'We are America! I don't give a rat's ass if it helps,' Smith declared. 'We are America! We do not fucking torture!'

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Of course they did.

Bush Administration Ignored Military's Strong Opposition To Torture Program

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Now were getting to the bottom of things.

Cheney Memos Released!

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This guy never saw the original Indiana Jones or he would have known better.

Man tries to attack cops with ax, knife, sword

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Awful.... just terrible... that I don't have an iPhone.

Apple under fire over iPhone 'Baby Shaker'

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Life's Mysteries

I bought and watched 'Caprica' (Movie/TV series premiere) last night. It was good. Really good.

Now I have to wait until Jan 2010 for the series to start. That's not good. Really not good.

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What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Noonan: Torture memos should have remained one of life’s mysteries

I agree with Feingold.

I'm going to take a big shit on the lawn of the next politician who says "We need to look forward, not back". Obama included.

Feingold Unloads On Peggy Noonan: "Never Heard Anything Quite As Disturbing"

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Once, I was very high on Newsome.... now, not so much. He's proven to be a corporate loving DINO who picks the low hanging fruit (see gay marriage... supporting GM in SF is about the least politically risky thing you can do).

Once he hitched his wagon to Hillary in the primaries... done.

He won't win. Too many skeletons.

Family connections got him into business and Getty oil money funds his political career.....

Sound familiar?

Gavin Newsom: It's Official...I am Running for Governor of California

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Those 'Tea Parties' were nothing more than fancy Klan meetings with a pinkie extended. Had nothing to do with 'taxes' and everything to do with a bunch of white people hating a black president.

California GOP Decries Anti-Semitic Tea Party Activism

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Very cool.

Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet:

"Gliese 581 d is probably too large to be made only of rocky material, fellow astronomer and team member Stephane Udry said, adding it was possible the planet had a 'large and deep' ocean.

'It is the first serious 'water-world' candidate,' Udry said.

Mayor's main planet-hunting competitor, Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, praised the find of Gliese 581 e as 'the most exciting discovery' so far of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system."

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Yes, I'm a book/document geek.

Here's the link to the actual site.

Humanity's earliest written works go online by AP: Yahoo! Tech:

"PARIS -National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.

U.S. Librarian of Congress James Billington said the idea behind the World Digital Library is not to compete with Google or Wikipedia but to pique young readers' interest — and get them reading books"

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Idiot or Liar - Fair and Balanced

I got the dreaded Coachella cold people warned me about.

Let's start with a little musical medicine, then.

Dexateens' new video of 'Down Low' from their upcoming new record 'Singlewide'

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We've got to start somewhere and this mf'er needs go and fast.

Please sign the petition.

Courage Campaign | Support the resolution to impeach Judge Jay Bybee:

"'These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations....They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country’s most basic values....These memos make it clear that (Judge Jay) Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. Congress should impeach him.' -- Editorial in the New York Times, Sunday, April 19

When President Barack Obama released the contents of President Bush's torture memos, America learned the full extent of the horror that was unleashed at Guanatanamo Bay on detainees. One of the memos was written by Jay Bybee in August 2002. It authorized the use of waterboarding, 'cramped confinement', 'walling' -- where a detainee's head is repeatedly pushed against a wall -- and even putting insects into a confined space with a detainee.

Jay Bybee is now a federal judge here in California, serving on the important Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco. He has not been held accountable for the lawbreaking he committed and enabled.

The California grassroots are determined to change that. Los Angeles Democratic activists John Heaner, Agi Kessler and Richard Mathews have sponsored a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Jay Bybee."

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It simply doesn't work.

Col. Jack Jacobs on torture: I got more out of using cigarettes, medical care and food | Crooks and Liars:

"MSNBC's military analyst retired Col. Jack Jacobs said that it was an astounding number.

Norah: Are you surprised by the number, two hundred and sixty six time on two terrorism suspects?

Jacobs: It's kind of astounding isn't it? You think after one or two times it didn't work, you wouldn't keep trying. Clearly, if you're doing it that many times it should be obvious to the casual observer that the technique is not working. Usually the information that you can get that's useful, you can get with very easy techniques. I've been in combat plenty of times, captured lots of bad guys and invariably got lots of information out of them using cigarettes, medical care and food. Most of the stuff that you're going to get when you give people a had time, most of it is going to be information that they're going to give just to shut you up or to get you to stop doing what you're doing to them."

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Wonder twin idiots... either that or liars. I'll go with Gingrich the Liar and Boner the Crying Idiot. That seems about right. Fair and balanced and all.

History Professor Gingrich Falsely Claims U.S. Presidents Don’t ‘Smile And Greet’ Russian Leaders

Top House Republican: Idea that CO2 is harmful is ‘comical’:

"In a boisterous exchange with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the top House Republican said that declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant was “almost comical” and repeated denials that humans are responsible for global warming.

“George, the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) quipped. “Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you’ve got more carbon dioxide."

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Really? 50% don't get it? WTF. This isn't difficult to understand.

Rainy Weather Forecasts Misunderstood by Many:

"To bring an umbrella or not to bring an umbrella? That's the perennial question on those days where the chance of rain is less than 100 percent.

But only half the population understands what a precipitation forecast means well enough to make a fully informed answer, a new study finds.

If, for example, a forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of rain, many people think it means that it will rain over 20 percent of the area covered by the forecast. Others think it will rain for 20 percent of the time, said Susan Joslyn, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Washington who conducted the study.

The reality: 'When a forecast says there is a 20 percent chance of rain tomorrow it actually means it will rain on 20 percent of the days with exactly the same atmospheric conditions,' Joslyn explained.

Put another way, on that day there's an 80 percent chance there will be no rain anywhere in the forecast are"

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Union Drives

Coachella was a blast. Still need to catch up on a bit of sleep. Pics and a write-up coming later this week.

Slim pickin's in my article que this morning due to a good 48 hours without a computer (other than my Crackberry)

So....

Deregulation: In your drinking water.

AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water:

"U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives."

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Why is Wal-mart so scared of Unions? (rhetorical... we all know 'why')

Unions: Kicking Pirate Ass in the name of the U.S.A.

Maersk crew member on how they gained control over the pirates: ‘We’re union members.’:

"Yesterday, NBC Nightly News interviewed the brave crew members of the Maersk Alabama, who all survived an attack by Somali pirates. They discussed how they managed to capture one of the bandits and bind him up, and they had universal praise for Capt. Richard Phillips, who agreed to be taken hostage to save his crew. One seaman, third engineer John Cronan, directly attributed their ability to prevail in the situation to their union training:

Q: How did you retain control of the ship?

CRONAN: We’re American seamen. We’re union members. We stuck together, and we did our jobs. And that’s how we did it."

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A peak into our environmental future.

Mallika Chopra: 1,500 Farmers in India Commit Suicide: A Wake-Up Call for Humanity

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I've driven it and yes it is scary but the beauty overwhelms the fear.

America's Scariest Drives:

"Alfred Hitchcock could not have conjured a scarier highway—122 miles of vertigo between Monterey and Morro Bay. Two lanes for nearly its entire length, the road meanders along cliff tops poised high above the Pacific, including 33 bridges and countless drop offs into liquid oblivion. Anyone faintly squeamish should not attempt to drive this route."

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DBT Week in Review - 4/17/09

Goin' to Coachella, Coachella, Choachella... I DO think so.

Driving to Indio as you read this. Pics next week.

DBT and Patterson!

Best jump on this and quick:

((( artists den ))) - Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers with special guest Bettye LaVette:

"Enter for the chance for you and a guest to attend an intimate, invitation-only performance by Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers with special guest Bettye LaVette in New Orleans on April 23. If you are selected, you will be emailed a confirmation and details the week of the show."

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Murdering Oscar release date, tour dates, and other goodness:

Patterson Hood

Patterson Hood MySpace

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Jazz News: Booker T. Jones Tours with a New Album That Breaks the Mold:

"“Pound It Out,' the opening track, begins with the unaccompanied notes of a Hammond organ, an instrument whose quavering sound was integral to the records Jones made in the 1960s, both as part of Booker T & the MGs and as part of the Stax Records house band that backed Otis Redding and Sam & Dave, among many others.

Recorded in a converted movie theater in Memphis, Tenn., the hundreds of songs Jones cut for Stax were saturated in Southern grit and sweat, a sound that came to define and occasionally constrain his career. But Potato Hole, his first solo album in almost two decades, due out April 21, announces its intention to depart from that template right off the bat. Jones' opening riff is met with a thundering triple-guitar blast, courtesy of Southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers, who back Jones on all of the album's 10 tracks.

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G'day, bitches!

Bluesfest 2009

dbts : Message: Sydney show ROCKED:

"This is my first post. I just wanted to say how The DBT's Rocked Sydney last night and was probably more of an amazing show than I even expected. Lucky enought to be only a few metres from the stage and they played every song I wanted to hear! Thanks for coming to Australia!"

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Land Down Under: School is out and ISP begins:

"We left Mullumbimby Sunday morning and headed back to Byron for the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival. It was amazing, long (12 hours), and muddy-- but we saw excellent acts like Ruthie Foster, Blues Traveler, Drive By Truckers, State Radio, Lucinda Williams, and John Butler Trio. It was a great time, and all of the hipsters from all of Australia were there."

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Patterson's on the soundtrack:

That Evening Sun

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Freep this poll - DBT's Tornadoes.

HossTheBoss.com � Hossey Music Award April Contest:

"These are the songs still alive in the April edition of the contest. Voting begins right after the live show on April 4 and continues through April 25. This month’s schedule is a little different for a variety of dang reasons that you’ll just have to deal with, dang it: we will eliminate 15 songs on Friday, April 10 (we’ll do the live show 24 hours earlier than usual because of Easter Holiday and Hoss’s Birthday, but a replay will air at the regular time on Saturday, April 11); we will eliminate another 15 on April 18, and we’ll name our Top 5 finalists on Saturday, April 25."

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

There's some really good stuff in this one:

Aquarium Drunkard: MP3 Blog, Music Blog � Long Shots :: Justin Townes Earle & Jason Isbell

JTE: I think they cross in the simplest fashion just because musicians have always been looked at as outlaws, and somehow through history, I don’t exactly know how it happened, I don’t know how people ended up translating Johnny cash into punk rock. But it ended up happening and it was just this attitude thing when these guys were coming up back in the day you had a bunch of rough and tumble folks like Charlie Pool and Dock Boggs. The kind of characters that may have been from the hills, but they’d shoot your ass in a second. They were rough, they drank, they didn’t give a shit what they said to anybody or what anybody said to them, they were gonna do what they wanted to do. And I think you know even though Dock Boggs did use his wife as a shield in a gunfight in Bristol Tennessee, I think he pulled off punk rock a little classier than Sid Vicious did.

JI: Right. Yeah I guess you’re right, the classiness of it is a little bit different, because I know a lot of those old guys and they’re just as grizzled and just as hard as my opinion of Johnny Rotten would be, but they still seem to be kinda gentlemen about it you know.

JTE: Yeah. Yeah I think that there’s an old time feel about ‘em that still says like, when the suns out you say yes ma’am and yes sir, and when the sun goes down it’s fuck ‘em. Where in punk rock its fuck ‘em all the time.

JI: All day long, yup.

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Dexateens

The Dexateens are coming! The Dexateens are coming!:

"I got an email the other day that’s the best news I’ve had all year. The Dexateens are releasing their new album, Singlewide and for the first time ever, they’re going to tour to promote it! You probably don’t know who The Dexateens are, but in my little part of the world, they get as much play as any other band I’ve ever followed. They were my New Favorite Band back before someone at Fox pissed me off and I quit my occasionally updated and hardly read blog. They have too many releases to maintain that title, so they just fall into the category of one of My All-Time Favorite Bands Ever category."

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Music

Bob has been quite the chatty-Cathy.

Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status

Bob Dylan Interview: Talks Rolling Stones, "Real Music," Val Kilmer, and Hitler

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EXCLUSIVE: 'ZZ Top' Brother's Estranged to the End | RadarOnline.com:

"Rocky Hill, legandary guitar player and brother of ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill, died last Friday."

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Fuzzy Dice

I mean.... The snark writes itself.

Supporting The Tea Parties From The Comfort Of Your Car (VIDEO):

"A Fox fan wrote in saying he would hang tea bags from his rear-view mirror and antennae because he couldn't make it to the actual protests and Gretchen Carlson piped in saying, 'you could hang it from your mirror too like fuzzy dice.' Yes Gretchen, yes."

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You know what we call 100,000 people protesting just in San Francisco?

Friday.

100,000 nation wide? Quite the Astroturf.

Media Matters - Lowering the bar:

"Marc Ambinder, writing 'In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties':

Their origins -- organic, programmatic, accidental or otherwise -- don't matter much anymore. If -- and we'll have to see the numbers at the end of the day -- 100,000 Americans show up to protest their taxes, the onus to dismiss them as a nascent political force shifts to the Democrats.

Really? 100,000 people showing up for nationwide protests doesn't seem all that impressive. It's 2,000 people per state."

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This is brilliant and worth the read.

There is a sucker born every minute.... then those suckers grow up to become Republicans.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

"If you don't believe the title, consider that a number of conservatives believed that Laura Bush racked up nearly a million dollars in gambling debt during her international trips as First Lady, and that there was a provision in the stimulus to pay it off.

And that they believed it based on an unsourced, nameless Twitter account.

Back during the debate for HR 1, I was amazed at how easily conservatives were willing to accept and repeat lies about spending in the stimulus package, even after those provisions had been debunked as fabrications. The $30 million for the salt marsh mouse is a perfect example, and Kagro X documented well over a dozen congressmen repeating the lie.

To test the limits of this phenomenon, I started a parody Twitter account last Thursday, which I called 'InTheStimulus', where all the tweets took the format 'InTheStimulus is $x million for ______'. I went through the followers of Republican Twitter feeds and in turn followed them, all the way up to the limit of 2000. From people following me back, I was able to get 500 followers in less than a day, and 1000 by Sunday morning."

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Get the fuck out.

Perry: Fed up Texans might soon want to secede | Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com

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Another scary gay storm is gathering.

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Dick Armey

Hilarious:

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Methinks the ladies doth protest too much.

Last time I checked Timothy McVeigh wasn't a "dirty fucky hippy". So that would make him....

Conservatives outraged at DHS assessment warning of violent 'rightwing extremism':

"An April 7 report by the Department of Homeland Security is causing waves of indignation among conservatives for labeling 'rightwing extremism' the 'most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.'"

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Another line that wish I had come up with:

Shuster: If You’re Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country, ‘You’re Going To Need A Dick Armey’

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Dumb ass:

GOP lawmaker can only name 1 of 17 socialists he said were in Congress:

"Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) told a gathering in Trussville, Ala. on Apr. 9 that there were 17 socialists in Congress. 'Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists,' said Bachus, the top Republican on the Financial Services Committee.

But pressed to name the 17, he's only been able to come up with one. And that senator, self-professed 'Democratic socialist' Bernie Sanders (D-VT) wants to know the rest.

Sanders joined the chorus of reporters and lawmakers Tuesday pushing Bachus to make good on his claim that 17 socialists reside in Congress.

'Has Spencer released his list yet?' Sanders asked Politico. 'Everybody's waiting with bated breath.'

“I think at the very least he has to tell people what his definition of socialism is,' he added. 'And I think he should tell us who he was referring to, who’s on the list.”"

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More funny from across the pond:

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Atta-boy.

But his daughter is 37, so, not as bad as it sounds.

Geriatric porn star an inspiration - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nz:

"He is a typical man of age - a few white hairs cover his round head and he wears dentures.

But 75-year-old Shigeo Tokuda sat on a movie set on Monday wearing just a silk kimono and loin cloth about to have sex on film with a woman who is younger than his daughter."

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California Dreamin'

Uh oh. Wignuts are going to have to eat yet another shit sandwich. I hope they enjoyed the 'Obama doesn't have the balls to save the Somali Pirate's Captain captive' shit sub they got to snack upon this week.

Oh Noes! Wingnuts Ain't Gonna Like This...Stimulus Projects UNDER Budget

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It's like Sacha Cohen is doing a another movie where he poses as a Republican operative and creates these AstroTurf 'events' and names them the 'Tea Bag Movement' and all of the Republican followers think it the best idea evah.

Embarrassingly hilarious.

Op-Ed Columnist - Tea Parties Forever - NYTimes.com:

"Beyond that, Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people. Better, perhaps, to focus on the real policy debates, which are all among Democrats."

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Your wingnut Supreme Court. 'We don't need no stinkin' Bill of Rights'.

Daily Kos: Clarence Thomas proposes 'alternatives' to Bill of Rights

"The evening was devoted to the Bill of Rights, but Justice Thomas did not embrace the document, and he proposed a couple of alternatives.

‘Today there is much focus on our rights,' Justice Thomas said. 'Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights.'

'I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded those with grievances,' he said. 'Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for our Bill of Obligations and our Bill of Responsibilities?'

How is this man allowed to serve on our Supreme Court when he seems to have no idea what is contained in the Constitution? He does not 'embrace' the Bill of Rights?

Clarence, here's a radical idea that may not have occurred to you yet: Look at the fucking Constitution, you dipshit. It sure as hell contains a Bill of Rights, but does not contain any sort of Bill of Obligations or Bill of Responsibilities.

There should not be 'equal time' for 'our' Bill of Obligations or Bill of Responsibilities because they do not exist in the Constitution. The founders wisely set forth a Bill of Rights to protect the freedoms of society."

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heh-heh

Land of the free sours on capitalism: US poll:

"Bad news for those fearful of 'creeping socialism' in the United States -- only 53 percent of Americans now believe capitalism is the better system, according to a new poll Thursday.

Fully 20 percent in the Rasmussen Reports survey said that socialism was their preferred economic system -- a startling number that suggests growing disaffection as the 'land of the free' fights its worst recession in decades.

Republican critics fret that President Barack Obama's big-spending recovery policies amount to an un-American 'creeping socialism,' but Rasmussen said its findings pointed to suspicion of business and government elites alike.

It noted that in another survey last month, two out of three Americans said that big government and big business often collude to undermine the interests of consumers and investors."

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You're welcome rest of the country.

In California, Medical Marijuana Laws Are Moving Pot Into the Mainstream - washingtonpost.com:

"But in California, pot is such a booming growth industry that lawmakers are being asked to consider its potential as a salve to the state's financial woes. Betty Yee, chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, endorsed a bill in February to regulate the estimated $14 billion marijuana market, citing the state's budget problems. California currently collects $18 million in sales taxes from marijuana dispensaries, and Yee said a regulated pot trade would bring in $1.3 billion.

'I think the tide is starting to turn in terms of marijuana being part of the mainstream,' she said. 'The pieces seem to be falling into place.'"

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Padma posing nude (well, kinda. the artsy fartsy variety)! This almost... almost makes believe in a 'god'.... and 'she' is a good 'god'.

Padman, call me.

NAKED: Padma Lakshmi, Chelsea Handler And Eliza Dushku Strip For Allure's Nude Issue (PHOTOS)

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Teabagging

So, so, so out of touch.

You want to create a conservative 'movement' and the only brand you could come up with is Teabag?

Hilarious.

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

"Having realized too late that 'teabagging' - the unfortunate gerund that Conservatives chose to brand their spittle-lipped protest of whatever amorphous terror they're currently ginning up so as not to go the way of the Whigs - has a... well... second, sexualized meaning, Republicans have quickly and deftly announced that April 15th 2009 will be renamed, henceforth to be known as... NATIONAL FISTING DAY!"

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And grassroots/netroots it ain't.

Sponsored by FAUX News.

Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests:

"Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:"

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And the branding attempts get even better.

2M4M? Ever visited Craigslist?

How gay is the Republican party?

Anti-Gay Rights Group Calls its Marriage Campaign '2M4M' | TPMDC:

"Now that activist legislators are legislating from their legislatures to legalize gay marriage, activists are turning up the volume on anti-gay marriage rhetoric.

There's just one, ahem, kink.

In an unintentional but hilarious nod to gay sex chatters everywhere, the National Organization for Marriage has dubbed their campaign '2 Million for Marriage'. Or 2M4M. Whoops."

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Another dumb ass from Alabama wanting to be McCarthy Jr.

Name 'em, bitch.

Republican Rep. Bachus Makes List Of 'Socialists' In House Of Representatives

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'Doo-doo' head and 'fart face' are just around the corner.

Media Matters - Conservatives warn of social-fasc- commun-Nazi-McCarthy-Marxism:

"Since January, Media Matters for America has documented numerous examples of conservatives in the media warning of socialism, fascism, communism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and Marxism, or using such language to describe President Obama or other Democrats."

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And yes, it is:

Daily Kos: It's Panic. �Sheer Panic.

If a space alien unfamiliar with our politics and customs were to visit the United States and acquaint itself with our recent history, it would be astonished, no doubt, upon witnessing the seeming insanity that has gripped the opinion leaders of the more conservative wing of our political divide. It would surely pity and find ill-used a long-suffering American public forced to waste their time with increasingly insane drivel unbecoming the attention of a great nation.

That a popular new president just three months into his term, desperately trying (whether one agrees with his particular choice of solutions or not) to undo the damage unquestionably caused by his predecessors and a clearly failed ideology of deregulatory bellicose fervor--that such a president should be given a reasonable space of time in which to attempt to solve the problems set before him would seem to be common sense. Certainly, our hypothetical space alien would point to the years of forbearance given to the previous President after 9/11/01, and wonder that a similar unanimous embrace of bipartisan good feeling should not have emerged during an economic crisis of centennial proportions.

Instead, the conservative wing of our nation embarrasses humanity itself before our space alien by subjecting us to hysteria the likes of which have rarely been seen since 1950s McCarthyism.

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Contradiction? We don't need no stinking contradiction.

Think Progress � Home Page:

"KRUGMAN: What’s so wonderful is watching Republican congressmen saying, “But this will cost jobs!” The very same Republican congressmen who were denouncing the stimulus, saying government spending never creates jobs, but cutting defense spending costs jobs. It’s wonderful."

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"I see your true colors shining through"

Alabama has some stupid politicians, but Texas.... ah Texas.

Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle:

"“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”"

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DBT Week in Review - 4/10/09

Dexateens

I usually begin the Friday post with DBT news, but today I want to put the Dexateens front and center.

Very cool. Get yer pics in!

Dear Celebrities of Tomorrow,

It's the Dexateens again, needing something.

We're doing a video for a song called "Caption," which asks the musical question

"If there was a caption on the picture of your life
would it tell the story that you tell yourself inside?"

That's the gist of it right there, with some elaboration about hopes, fears, present, past. Deep songwriterly things, understand?

So the video idea is to feature pictures of people with--wait for it--CAPTIONS. This is where you come in.

We'd like to feature our friends' pictures along with whatever text you'd choose as the caption (On the picture. Of your life.).

*****BEFORE THIS GOES ANY FARTHER: IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, PLEASE DON'T SEND PICTURES BACK TO THIS ADDRESS. IT WILL KILL OUR EMAIL. READ ON FOR DETAILS. THANKS!**********

It can be serious, zany, sad, a caption for today, or a summary of your life to this point--whatever you want barring a few exceptions outlined below in 4.

If you're interested here's what to do:

1. Send a picture of yourself to


mycaption@gmail.com


Preliminary questions and tech support requests can be sent to that address as well.

The picture will need to be between 72 and 120 dpi and at least 720 x 480. For the layman: high enough resolution for the web and not tiny.

2. Include your caption text in the body of the email. Keep em under 150 characters. It's like haiku or twitter!

3. If we want to use your picture (which we probably will) we'll need to get Official Permission from you to do so. We can send a separate email covering that once we've picked the photos, or you can paste the following into the body of the email:

"I certify that you have the right to use and distribute this photo in the Dexateens' 'Caption' video."

4. So we can use the picture, keep it clean: no logos; no dodgy behavior; no nakedness. For example, a picture of you doing bong rips while having Mickey Mouse and the Nike logo tattooed on your butt cheeks will be summarily dismissed.

All right. Awesome. Let's make a Rock Video!

DBT!

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Via JayneC.

Drive-By Truckers | timeoff.com.au:

"KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

FUELLED BY MASTERFUL SONGWRITING AND A TRIPLE GUITAR ATTACK, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS HAVE LONG BEEN ONE OF AMERICA’S FINEST EXPONENTS OF COUNTRY SOAKED ROCK. STEVE BELL CATCHES UP WITH THE BAND’S PATTERSON HOOD AS HE PREPARES FOR AN AUSTRALIAN SOJOURN."

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Rock Blog: Drive-By Truckers

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Athens Rock Show - Booker T and the DBTs - April 2009

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Will Johnson - Centro-matic

Will Johnson Art

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Muscle Shoals Sound

Inductee Oldham ready to make more music | TimesDaily.com | Florence, AL:

"At Saturday's induction banquet, Oldham and his wife shared a table with his friend, singer/songwriter Bobby Womack, Rolling Stone's rhythm guitarist Ron Wood, and record mogul Russell Simmons, founder of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam.

'I'd never met any of The Rolling Stones before except Chuck Levell, the keyboard player from Alabama,' Oldham said. 'I got to chat with Bobby Womack in the green room and with Little Anthony and the Imperials.'

Oldham was introduced by Paul Shaffer, keyboard player and band leader for the CBS Orchestra on 'The Late Show with David Letterman.' Shaffer talked about Oldham while an audio and video montage of the artist's achievements played in the background."

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"Now that he's back home, Oldham is ready to get back to what he does best - making music. He is working on a solo album, his first in 40 years."

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FAME Music Group's Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction 2009 Photo Album - MySpace Photos

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Bettye rolling with the big dogs!

Bettye LaVette's change begins within Photo Album - MySpace Photos

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Music

Kanye says 'South Park' put him in check:

"NEW YORK – 'South Park' may have accomplished the impossible — getting Kanye West to check his ego. The Comedy Central show skewered the famously self-important rapper on its show Wednesday night, painting him as a narcissistic figure so out of touch with reality he couldn't even take a (very politically incorrect) joke."

And perhaps to show that he's really serious about making that change, he provided a link to one of the most biting moments from the "South Park" show, and thanked the writers as well.

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Eminem Raps About Sex With Sarah Palin In New Single "We Made You" (AUDIO NSFW)

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Beatles catalog to be digitally remastered

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Audio: Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts

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