DBT Week in Review - 7/3/09

Patterson/DBT

It sounded like a train, y'all:

Get your tickets soon for the 2 Buttholeville performances on July 23rd and 24th.

They be selling like hot pancakes, so you best act soon if you want to go.

Go on over to J.D.'s place and purchase:

Cork Industries

Drive-By Truckers playing two shows at Shoals Theater | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"FLORENCE - Emma Lucas frequently leaves the Shoals to see one of her favorite rock bands, the Drive-By Truckers, but in July, she and other fans won't have to drive far.

The popular rock band has scheduled two shows at the Shoals Theater in downtown Florence on July 23 and 24.

'I've seen the Drive-By Truckers dozens of times over the past few years in venues and festivals across the country,' Lucas said. 'It's always surreal to be hundreds or thousands of miles from the Shoals and listening to musicians and songs deeply rooted in this area.'"

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The rest of this post is going to be down and dirty. Traveling always screws me up.

It sucks when the dude sitting next to you on the plane smells like the cabby that brought you to the airport. Cab ride = 15 minutes. Plane ride = 2 hours.

Patterson Hood: Drive-By Boss Does 'Murder' : NPR Music:

Patterson Hood: 'Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) - AZ Republic'

Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) by Patterson Hood on Blurt Online

Patterson Hood: Live Last Night - Post Rock

Mayer’s Playlist for June 2009 - Twangville

Drive-By Truckers:

"Pre-Order Now: Drive-By Truckers: Live From Austin City Limits CD/DVD
Pre-Order NOW (available in stores July 7, 2009)

SEE THE TRAILER

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Jambands.com | Features |My Bonnaroo Day: Booker T. Jones | 2009-06-28

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Jackson influenced music produced in Muscle Shoals' heyday | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"Michael Jackson's musical genius was never directly linked to the renowned Muscle Shoals music and he never recorded a song here, but he still had an influence.

Many involved locally in the industry say Jackson influenced the music being produced in the Shoals during the 1960s and '70s.

Jackson died Thursday at age 50. His death was viewed as a huge loss by many involved in the local music industry.

'A great talent is gone,' said Jimmy Johnson, an original member of the Swampers, a collection of local musicians who helped make dozens of top hits."

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But They Can't Take our Free Markets!

A to the men, Bernie. Now, if you can just get all of these fake-ass Democrats to sign on.

This is the route, though.

Republicans in charge = 51 votes. Democrats in charge = 60 votes?

I'm gonna blame the gays on this one too.

I said it's hard out here for a (D)imp.

Congress Matters :::

"'I think that with Al Franken coming on board, you have effectively 60 Democrats in the caucus, 58 and two Independents,' Sanders said in an interview with the Huffington Post. 'I think the strategy should be to say, it doesn't take 60 votes to pass a piece of legislation. It takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster. I think the strategy should be that every Democrat, no matter whether or not they ultimately end up voting for the final bill, is to say we are going to vote together to stop a Republican filibuster. And if somebody who votes for that ends up saying, 'I'm not gonna vote for this bill, it's too radical, blah, blah, blah, that's fine.''

'I think the idea of going to conservative Republicans, who are essentially representing the insurance companies and the drug companies, and watering down this bill substantially, rather than demanding we get 60 votes to stop the filibuster, I think that is a very wrong political strategy,' Sanders added."

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Freeeeee Maaaaarkets! Oh, wait...

Health-Care Market Characterized By Consolidation, Not Competition | TPMMuckraker:

"The problem is most acute in small rural states, according to the report. In Shelby's own state of Alabama, the biggest insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, controls 83 percent of the statewide market. There, and in nine other states -- Hawaii, Rhode Island, Alaska, Vermont, Maine, Montana, Wyoming, Arkansas and Iowa -- the two largest health insurers control at least 80 percent of the market. So much for Shelby's 'marketplace for health care.'"

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And you wanna know why it's important to have the public option active on day one...

They didn't make the new credit card/consumer laws active on day one, and now looky-looky:

Citi raises rates on millions of credit cards: report | Reuters

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My beans crawled into my tummy a bit when seeing this.

I went up to the top of the Sears Towers a few months after 9/11. Scary. No 'up high' fan am I.

Sears Tower unveils 103rd floor glass balconies - Yahoo! News:

"CHICAGO – Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.

The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they're floating over the city.

'It's like walking on ice,' said Margaret Kemp, of Bishop, Calif., who said her heart was still pounding even after stepping away from the balcony. 'That first step you take — 'am I going down?''"

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Gimme Back My Dog

He's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it, people like him.

Freakin' finally.

Lies and Lying Liars was a HUGE influence on my early political activism and a definite catalyst in the creation of this blog.

The Senate just go a whole lot more fun.

Minnesota Supreme Court affirms: Franken won US Senate seat:

"It’s finally prime time for former Saturday Night Live writer Al Franken.

The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed early Tuesday afternoon that Franken won the state’s senate seat from former Republican Senator Norm Coleman in a razor-thin election."

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Nothing more I can add other than to reiterate 'FUCKING D'UH'.

OK, I can add a bit more.

100% of the Republicans and a good 60-70% of Democrats are so deep in the pockets of Big-Pharma they can't see straight enough to make a cogent argument against the Public Plan.

Open Left:: The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health Insurance:

"The main goal of health care reform is to lower the cost of health insurance. Apropos, Olympia Snowe thinks that the problem with a public health insurance option is that a public option would... wait for it... lower the cost of health insurance:

In an Associated Press interview in Portland, Snowe said it would be unfair to include a government-run health insurance option that would take effect immediately.

'If you establish a public option at the forefront that goes head-to-head and competes with the private health insurance market ... the public option will have significant price advantages,' she said.

Well, duh. That is the whole point. You can't lower the price of health insurance unless you start offering lower-priced health insurance. It's a tautology."

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And there is no 'medical free market' to save, here, folks. It is a goddamn myth.

Free market health care competition simply doesn't exist.

Time to bust them up.

This Is Why Insurance Companies Fear The Public Option(Updated)

Over the last 13 years there have been 400 mergers of health insurance companies. This means there are now at least 200 less companies offering insurance than there were in 1996. Less competition means less pressure to keep costs down.

This is why the big companies are so freaked out by the idea of the public option. They can not buy out a government competitor. Since a public option will not be for profit with shareholders who will take a very sweet deal to leave a market, they will not be able to use their deep pockets to buy market share. Worse from their point of view, they will not be able to collude with a public plan to keep rates artificially high, under the premise everyone wins, well everyone except the consumer who only needs health care to stay alive and healthy and happy.

The argument has been pitched the Insurance companies are afraid for their existence if there is a public option, and long term the Dog thinks that is true, but it is really all about short term returns the Insurance companies are worried about. The profits they have been able to reap through consolidation have been enourmous. Between 2000 and 2007 the top ten publically traded insurance companies saw profits increase 428%! Let that sink in, in a little over seven years they saw a 428% increase in profit, all the while passing on double digit increases in premiums to their customers!

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Is it any wonder that an economy left in the hands of Repubs is sure to implode.

And, porn, I might add, is probably one of the few industries that's propping up our shitty economy at the moment.

You take away the porn market and we're looking like Somalia.

Oklahoma Rep’s ‘proclamation’ blames gays, porn, abortion for economic woes:

"Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern, probably best known for her comparison of homosexuality to toe cancer, has ignited controversy once again with her “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality,” a document that blames America’s current economic crisis on “our greater national moral crisis.”

The document (PDF) blames “abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse and many other forms of debauchery” for the country’s economic woes."

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West Side Rulz!

Oregon legalizes hemp cultivation:

"Oregon’s House of Representatives voted Monday night to legalize the cultivation of hemp, becoming the sixth state to do so just this year.

Oregon’s Senate voted 27 to 2 in favor of the new law last week. Monday’s 46 to 11 House vote means that the measure will become law, barring an unlikely veto by Governor Ted Kulongoski."

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Gimme back my dog?

Worst Slobberbone reference ever.

Man allegedly demands sex to return lost dog:

"Los Angeles County prosecutors allege that a convicted sex offender tried to extort a teenager by demanding cash or sex for the return of her lost dog."

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Giant Effing Q

Watch the trailer for the DBT: Live from ACL DVD coming out next week!

DBT: Live from ACL Trailer!

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Real or fake, this is a thing of beauty:

Daily Kos: Saturday hate mail-apalooza:

"Not a bad week, but this stuff starts getting repetitive after a while. But there was one piece of hate mail so brilliant, I almost wept at its beauty. So I decided it deserved the day to itself and a poll. Check it out below the fold."

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"Don't let the door hit you...."

Fair enough.

Fireworks over Baghdad as Iraqis take over cities - Yahoo! News

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Not Nyquil! Not the 13th step in a 12 step program!

As Dennis Leary once joked "Are you drunk? No, I have a cold. The same cold I've had for the past 3 months. My teeth are green and I'm high as a kite".

FDA poised to ban sales of Nyquil

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Slow day today. That's all I'z gots.

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Round and Round

I know, I know enough with the Michael Jackson. I couldn't agree more.

Last MJ related anything coming from me.... unless something particularly hilarious pops up.

The inmates in the PI pay a final tribute to their inspiration.

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Because sometimes is gets confusing:

Sex Scandal Flow Chart | TPM News Pages

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Between this and the lie-detecting MRI on 60 minutes last night... we be in for a wild future.

First Image of a Memory Being Made:

"For the first time, an image of a memory being made at the cellular level has been captured by scientists.

The image shows that proteins are created at connections between brain cells when a long-term memory is formed. Neuroscientists had suspected as much, but hadn't been able to see it happening until now.

The experiment also revealed some surprising aspects of memory formation, which remains a somewhat mysterious process."

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Shitty journalism. The U.S.A.'s #1 export.

Jeff Koyen - The Places You’ll Go - Duped newscast airs ‘Lost’ scene as Flight 447’s last moments - True/Slant:

"In their rush to air exclusive photos of Flight 447’s destruction, no one in this newsroom stopped to ask the logical questions, such as: 1) How did the camera survive? and 2) Why are the photos in wide-screen format?"

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Finally we have an answer for crop circles.

Opium-eating wallabies get high, make crop circles:

"SYDNEY (AFP) – Wallabies are getting “as high as a kite” on opium in Australian poppy fields and flattening crops as they hop round in circles, according to a report"

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DBT Week in Review - 6/26/09

Tipping one back for the woman who assured my heteroness pre-puberty.

That nipple changed my young life..

'Charlie's Angel' Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 s:

"LOS ANGELES – Farrah Fawcett, the 'Charlie's Angels' star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62."

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And, well, damn... Ain't nobodies business.....

RIP Michael

The man wasn't as 'off the wall' as he appeared. He patterned his celebrity after P.T. Barnum (no, really) and a lot of the 'weirdness' was premeditated.

But, yes, a troubled soul, too.

"You've got to look into his eyes, not his noses".

Thriller changed the music world and world of celebrity. But Off the Wall was his musical zenith.

However, PYT from Thriller is my fav.

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Patterson Hood/DBT

Hat tip to breakingthesky7028 on the NB board.

2008 Paste article by Patterson Hood

Smell the Glove :: Features Music :: Articles :: Paste:

"Two things we can all agree on:
1. We all love Michael Jackson
2. We’re all glad he’s not our uncle.

I was 18 and working at a record store in Florence, Ala., in the fall of 1982 when Thriller was released. At the time, it was considered the inferior follow-up to his 1979 solo breakthrough Off The Wall. It had that weak McCartney collaboration as a first single. Then again, it also had “Billie Jean” and “Beat It,” although neither of those had become ubiquitous by then. The elements were all there, but he hadn’t quite moonwalked into our collective consciousness yet. The Vincent Price thing seemed like a campy diversion, and Human Nature sounded like fucking Toto. Oh wait, it was fucking Toto."

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Peter Grumbine from Current TV says MO is the best of 2009 so far on CNN.com

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Via Jonicont:

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Check out the band opening for Patterson and the Screwtopians in San Francisco. Good stuff:

The Stone Foxes on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

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Yes! Best festival in the U.S.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass:

"Mavis Staples, The Chieftains, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Richie Havens, John Prine, Aimee Mann, Okkervil River, Gillian Welch, Hazel Dickens, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dr. Dog, Billy Bragg, Allen Toussaint, The Wronglers, World Party, Old 97's, The Del McCoury Band, Earl Scruggs, Little Feat, Neko Case, Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Booker T. & the DBTs, Doc Watson"

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The Washington Post - Quick Spins - Murdering Oscar

Extended Play: Patterson Hood | The Music Mix | EW.com

Honest Tune Online - Patterson Hood : Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs):

"The liner notes of Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) pin the origins of “Foolish Young Bastard” on a former manager who “was always using salt when sugar would work better.” Patterson Hood clearly knows the the difference between salt and sugar, and for their patience, the fans get to lick the spoon."

Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) on JamBase

Patterson Hood backs up the truck | Washington Examiner

Greencastle Banner-Graphic

Vue Weekly : Edmonton's 100% Independent Weekly : New Sounds: Patterson Hood (Follow the Tracks)

Patterson Hood: Common Man as Hell - outsideleft

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Jason Isbell

Jason Isbell of Drive-By Trucker's on his hometown, and hit factory, Muscle Shoals | Music | The Guardian:

"Here, then, are 10 of my favourite records to have come out of Muscle Shoals - from soul to rock'n'roll."

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Music I Like

Come On Go With Us on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

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Music

‘Insane’ file-sharing verdict could challenge law’s constitutionality

Richard Marx “Ashamed” He’s Linked To $1.92 Million RIAA Fine Against Minnesota Mom : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily:

"Last week a judge ruled Minnesota mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset owes the RIAA a $1.92 million fine for illegally downloading 24 songs. Richard Marx — one of the artists whose music Thomas-Rasset downloaded via P2P network Kazaa — is now speaking out against the court’s verdict, saying he’s “ashamed” to be associated with the massive fine.

“As a longtime professional songwriter, I have always objected to the practice of illegal downloading of music. I have also always, however, been sympathetic to the average music fan, who has been consistently financially abused by the greedy actions of major labels,” Marx said in a statement. “These labels, until recently, were responsible for the distribution of the majority of recorded music, and instead of nurturing the industry and doing their best to provide the highest quality of music to the fans, they predominantly chose to ream the consumer and fill their pockets.”"

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Coroner: Pain killer killed ex-Wilco member - Yahoo! News

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Secret Lovers

This was awesome!

Yes, I'm American and, yes, I dig soccer.

I have a bronze medal from the Junior Olympics to prove it.

U.S.A.!

United States beats Spain 2-0 - Yahoo! News

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1. Writing something, needed to be away from the kids.

2. Hiking the App. Trail

3. Argentina for a little Gov 'me' time.

4. Affair

5. Priceless

Aren't all Republican affairs 'innocent'? Like the driven snow.

Another Family Values Republican. Yee-haw!

Sanford didn't have an problems entering Clinton's 'zone of privacy'. Hey-oh!

Damn gays! Messin' up hetero marriage!

I’ve been unfaithful to my wife, Sanford admits:

"South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitted to an extra-marital affair with an Argentinian woman Wednesday afternoon, at an eagerly-awaited press conference to explain his sudden disappearance last week.

Sanford also announced his resignation as chair of the Republican Governors’ Association.

“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford said in front of the cameras. “I developed a relastionship with … a dear, dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently, as I suspect these things do. In the last year, it developed into something much more than that.”

“I spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina,” Sanford said, explaining his break-up with his love interest.

As a consequence of his actions, “I hurt a lot of different folks,” Sanford said. He apologized to his family, to his staff, and to South Carolina voters, in that order.

Sanford asked the press to respect “a zone of privacy” for his family, saying that the work of rebuilding his family life is “not best dealt with through the prism of TV cameras and newspaper headlines.”"

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Oh, I get it. He was only against stimulus for his state, not... ok, clear now.

The Raw Story � Sanford’s South American sojourn taxpayer-funded:

'"South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford spent more than $21,000 of taxpayers' money on international travel last year, at least part of which was spent on travel to Argentina -- where his mistress is located."

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'Secret Looo-vers, yeah, that's what they were"

Sanford, lover carried on a romantic e-mail exchange | McClatchy

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Nail on head:

Daily Kos: Note to RedState: How to Stop the Gloating

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But, but, but, the insurance companies can't compete! Wah!

Public health plan could save money faster: policy group - Yahoo! News:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A nationwide health insurance exchange that includes a Medicare-like government option could save $1.8 trillion more than if only private plans are offered, a prominent private U.S. health policy group said on Wednesday."

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Our homeless are smarter than your homeless

Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack:

"(06-24) 10:56 PDT REDWOOD CITY -- A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said today."

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Fighting Black Eyes

Welcome to reality, Chuck. Seriously, just now coming to this conclusion?

And that co-op option is utter horse shit.

Public Plan Period.

51 votes, dumbass.

GOP Opposing Public Health Care No Matter What It's Called:

"Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday afternoon that he is 'losing confidence that Senate Republicans will ever agree' to the creation of a national, nonprofit cooperative health care plan as an acceptable alternative to a public health care option, which Republicans strenuously oppose."

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Krugman nails this. Shitty Democrats are a far larger problem than the beat-down Republicans.

Op-Ed Columnist - Health Care Showdown - NYTimes.com

The real risk is that health care reform will be undermined by “centrist” Democratic senators who either prevent the passage of a bill or insist on watering down key elements of reform. I use scare quotes around “centrist,” by the way, because if the center means the position held by most Americans, the self-proclaimed centrists are in fact way out in right field.

What the balking Democrats seem most determined to do is to kill the public option, either by eliminating it or by carrying out a bait-and-switch, replacing a true public option with something meaningless. For the record, neither regional health cooperatives nor state-level public plans, both of which have been proposed as alternatives, would have the financial stability and bargaining power needed to bring down health care costs.

Whatever may be motivating these Democrats, they don’t seem able to explain their reasons in public.

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Amurika, Feck Yeuh!

Under Misspelled Banner, Buchanan And White Nationalist Brimelow Argue For English-Only Initiatives

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Consistent brown hate.

Tapes Reveal Nixon’s View of Abortion - NYTimes.com:

"Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”"

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I'll be purchasing every bit of Black Eyed Peas merch I can today. A national holiday should be created in honor of the BEPs.

This bottom feeders deserves an ass whuppin on a daily basis.

Hilarious.

More, please!

Perez Hilton Called Will.i.am A "F*gg*t" Pre-Fight:

"TORONTO — Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly punched celebrity blogger Perez Hilton outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the Cobra nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager. They were at the club following a Sunday night video awards show."

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Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)

Happy 'Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)' album release day!

Be sure to go out and purchase a copy today!

Here's my review: It kicks much ass. Much. (Best album review I've ever done).

You too can have the following lyric running through your head bringing my joy to your life:

Uncle Phil said to me
The woman will be the death of me
Don't think there's anything I can do

Congrats to Patterson!

Patterson and his Super-Group The Screwtopians will be touring the next few weeks. Go out and catch a most excellent show!

Tour Dates

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Express Night Out | Arts & Events | Tough Love Songs: Patterson Hood, 'Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)':

"'Murdering Oscar' ends with 'Back of a Bible,' one of two odes to Hood's wife. It's a love song about writing love songs, specifically how they cannot begin to capture or convey his feelings satisfactorily. Hood is, of course, being overly modest, as this album further proves he understands how a simple song can express complex and often contradictory emotions. In this regard, 'Murdering Oscar' kills."

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Critics' Choice - New CDs by Mars Volta, Ginuwine, Holly Williams and Patterson Hood - Review - NYTimes.com:

"Neil Young stirred up echoes of the Civil War with his condemnatory “Southern Man” in 1970, soon to be answered by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s proud “Sweet Home Alabama.” Decades later Patterson Hood and the band he started in 1995, Drive-By Truckers, straddled a musical Mason-Dixon line by realizing what Mr. Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd shared: overdriven guitars and blunt, concise lyrics. Mr. Hood and the band have merged Mr. Young’s frazzled high vocals and Crazy Horse’s grungy trudge with a guitar twang, drawl and Southern perspective"

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Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) < Reviews | PopMatters:

"Patterson Hood is one of those songwriters for whom the pen moves faster than the mind. He writes, records, writes, records… like a Jack Kerouac or a Neil Young or a Stephen King, he pours himself out on the page and doesn’t linger much over the result. It’s like a reflex, an unconscious response: just write, sing it out, move on to the next idea. If the rhymes are thin, or the story a bit under-baked, just move along, friend, because when one of these things hits, it’s pure, raw, untouchable perfection."

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Pitchfork: Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs):

"Nothing here totally upends what we already know of Hood's talents via the Truckers, but it does serve as a supplementary capsule capturing how he ticks, right down to his cover of the Runt-era Todd Rundgren proto alt-country gem 'The Range War', a response to anyone that, in Hood's words, thinks all he does is 'sit around and listen to Molly Hatchet.' What it and the originals on Murdering Oscar do is emphasize Hood's respect for and attraction to lyrical and emotional honestly above all else, the universals that have linked a lot of good music from the past to present. With every note, with every song, Hood sounds like he increasingly, if modestly, recognizes he's part of that great songwriting continuum, working hard to live up to his end of the obligation, as long as it takes."

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Jambands.com | CD Reviews | Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) – Patterson Hood | 2009-06-22:

"I used to think that Paul Westerberg was the absolute master at writing clever, killer rock songs that said “eff you” but were somehow wistful at the same time.

I don’t know but Patterson Hood (best known as the leader of the Drive-By Truckers) has written the best one of all."

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Catching Up With... Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers :: Features Music :: Articles :: Paste

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Hood reaches back for songs | ajc.com:

"“I’m all about fun,” Hood said. “I’m at a point in my life that if it’s not fun or benefiting my family —- and preferably both —- then I just don’t want to do it.

“All that talk about great art coming from drama —- forget that. I’ve been there, I’ve had enough of that to draw on for the rest of my life. I don’t need it in my day-to-day life, and I sure as hell don’t need it in my band.”"

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Old cassette tape leads to new solo abum for Patterson Hood | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY

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Murdering Patterson and other old songs | Louisville's Alt-Weekly | LEO Weekly:

"And what about the paradoxical name of the album?
“It just kind of struck me as funny … It’s a true statement. ’Cause I think you can make an argument for each one of those songs, in one way or another, being somewhat of a love song. I’m not necessarily known for writing love songs, and my take on the love song probably isn’t going to put Lionel Richie out of business … let’s just put it that way.”"

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allmusic ((( Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) > Overview )))

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Ahhhh, Freak Out!

Be scared. Be very, very scared.

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Lying Liars.

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Again, lying liars.

Damn librul media.

Major Media Headlines Pretend That Latest Polls Show Obama’s Policies Are Unpopular:

"The headlines have little to no relation to the actual data in the polls, both of which found broad approval for Obama’s foreign policy and economic agendas."

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Your modern Republican Party. Keepin' it real.

They're lovin' it.

Missouri Republican responds to child hunger: "Hunger Can Be a Positive Motivator":

"Why have meals at home with your loved ones if you can go to the government soup kitchen and get one for free? This could have the effect of breaking apart more families.

Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals?

Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break."

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Apparently, Iran is loaded with hot model types. Yeah, yeah, revolution... people dying the streets....I'm just sayin' they got a lot of hot chicks.

What, too soon?

Daily Kos: Tehran Street Photos -- On the Brink

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Title of video: Greatest Freak Out Ever.

Mom canceled World of Warcraft account. Little brother hides video camera.

Hilarity ensues.

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