February 2009
171 posts
Jindal's Office Tries To Spin Katrina Story, Digs... →
vruz:
by Zachary Roth, TPM
It looks like Bobby Jindal’s staff has been trying to do some damage limitation on that phony Katrina story — with some help from Politico. But it’s blowing up in their faces.
Picking up on an earlier post at Daily Kos, we wrote a post yesterday that raised questions about a key anecdote in Bobby Jindal’s big Tuesday night speech.
vruz: and there he goes, the new...
Jindall Seems to Have Made Up Being There With The... →
thesmarttart:
rosasparks:
thepoliticalpartygirl:
think4yourself:
(via blogonthe)
Color me unsurprised. But that exorcism he performed? Totally real.
Of course he’s full of horseshit. I called BS on that story when I heard it. Glad to know my BS antennae were right.
Watchblazey:
dontwhistleontheelevator:
zackgilbert:
It’s funny. Because it’s true.
har har har
Hilarious bit
Watchdanmeth:
METH MINUTE MONDAYS: Bob Meets The Beatles
This one takes us back in time to a milestone moment in rock history: the day Bob Dylan first smoked up the Beatles. It got weird in that room.
Maine Man Tries to Build a Dirty Bomb →
azspot:
No one cares, probably because he isn’t Muslim. White supremicist terrorism just isn’t sexy these days.
US Senator Patrick Leahy - "Restoring Trust in the... →
Daily Kos: Torture Commission Coming Soon →
Torture Commission Senate | Salon News →
Oh Yeah (Magnetic Fields cover) - This Is My Mess...
branduponthebrain:
Ray Charles - “Eleanor Rigby”
Tumblr iTunes game
Number of Songs: 4250 Number of Albums: urh, what Ayse said Most Recently Played Song: Mountain Goats - “Half Dead” Most Played Song: Bon Iver - “Flume” Most Recently Added Album: Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse First Song Alphabetically: Vampire Weekend - ”A-Punk” Last Song Alphabetically: Karate - “—-“ Smallest Song Numerically: Califone - “1/4...
On Poetry - The Great(ness) Game - NYTimes.com →
You Got Tuneage in My Twitter! →
tuneage:
Or did we get Twitter in your Tuneage? Either way, the take-home message is this: Tuneage is now tweeting! And since we don’t like it when websites link every post they make in their Twitter feed, you won’t be seeing any of that from us. Our Twitter feed will be for all the other links, news, and miscellaneous music excellence we find scattered around the internet that doesn’t warrant...
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Why oh Why - Woody Guthrie
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Dusty Springfield (25)
Lily Allen (24)
Feist (22)
Beirut (20)
Mavis Staples (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Heart of the Redesign: CSS Pseudo-elements |... →
“Obama’s problem is that a growing number of Americans are concerned about what...”
– Scott Horton (via azspot)
Proxy
(A true account of my father talking to Frank O’Hara in lower Manhattan)
1.
Is the cotton dirty? no that’s old glitter it’s supposed to be snow it’s 90 degrees it’s unseasonable but the Ball Square CVS has snow behind glass Up and down Kidder Avenue spears of forsythia wave yellow the pollen coats my car lilacs on all the lawns Walt Whitman’s dead nose sniffing his dead mouth declaiming...
Last.fm not really sharing data with RIAA -... →
“* Feb 20 2009, 23:48 I’d like to issue a full and categorical denial of this....”
– Last.fm giving data to the RIAA? – Web Site Support – Last.fm (via elvira)
vruz: Techcrunch making stuff up ? how is that I’m not surprised about such a serious accusation ?
(via vruz)
Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To... →
artistspaid:
whatevernevermind:
This could be a big win for the U2 camp since until now tha album has gotten almost no press and there’s been almost no marketing around the album.
I hope the addendum to the techcrunch article is true:
Update: Some more denials from Last.FMers, including one of the co-founders, Richard Jones, in comments, who says this story is “utter nonsense and totally...
“The United States has a prison population like nowhere else. With one out of...”
– John Pfaff (via azspot)