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One from Tony Butler, who also laid down some amazing bass lines with Big Country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkJ16gbrgg

For pure stuck-in-your-head-ness, the last minute and a half of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw

Telander wrote a great book on the same general subject over twenty years ago: The Hundred Yard Lie.

These days, cash can be a nice way of saying "I hope you'll buy yourself something nice with this, but I know you're having a hard time making ends meet so I won't be offended if this ends up paying the electric bill."

Two DVDs...

I second this list, with a few reservations. Liz Phair's debut was brilliant; since then, not so much. U2 was great in the '80s, but should probably have hung it up four or five albums ago. And I've grown to appreciate Nirvana much more in the past few years than I ever did when they were still around.

This. Though if the card is well chosen, I don't really mind all that much. I don't give gift cards because I try to put some thought into what I give ... though my knack for finding good gifts has been almost entirely depleted, so I may have to go that route in the future. In the end, though, if you're going to give people gift cards, why not just give them cash?

I hear he makes a mean soufflé.

More glad tidings from Michigan!

link Terrelle Pryor Suspended: 4 Other Ohio State Buckeyes To Sit Out 5 Games Next Season RUSTY MILLER | 12/23/10 12:35 PM | AP COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor and four other Buckeyes were suspended by the NCAA for the first five games of next season for selling championship rings, jerseys and awards, and receiving improper benefits from a tattoo parlor. All can still play in the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas. Along with Pryor, running back Daniel Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey, offensive lineman Mike Adams and defensive end Solomon Thomas must sit out and repa

Damn. He was probably my favorite character on Barney Miller. RIP, Detective Dietrich.

OK, sorry, I've steered this off topic toward domestic concerns. This is supposed to be about Europe. But what's happening there is pertinent to our own predicament. And so I'll reply. No one said Congress doesn't need a good kick in the pants. And yes, we should cut lots from the budget (starting with the military). Cutting back on wasteful spending should be our number one budgetary priority. But we still need higher taxes, especially with the state of the country's infrastructure. The bridge collapse in the Twin Cities was a warning shot, as was the 2003 blackout across the northeast. We

Awesome! So you agree that in the U.S. we need to stop the mindless tax cuts and find ways to increase revenue!

Why not? (Except that retirement-at-50 thing ... slackers.) There's nothing wrong with constructing your society to offer such things. It works in Denmark (for example). Taxation is higher to pay for it all, naturally, but in the end the people who live in such societies vastly prefer them to our model (and I would too). And they feel no lack of "freedom," despite living in what many Americans would consider a socialist society.

Ah ... so what you're listening to is not this:

Fact: Most people who commit acts of vandalism during protests have no real connection to the protests. They're just douchebags who see the occasion of thousands of people in the street as license to break stuff. This provides those who disagree with the protesters a justification for denouncing the protesters as douchebag vandals. In many cases, the vandals have turned out to be on the opposite side from the protesters, but allowed themselves to be associated with the protesters in an attempt to discredit them.

Why does that say "Hero Hall"?

I think you're a year behind...

RIP, Cap'n.

I will, and I'm not even that much of a fan. The guy's amazing when he wants to be. Maybe not THE most talented, but he'd be a finalist for the award.

Personally, I think she got really lazy in her songwriting over the last several years. Lots of inexplicable repetition and ponderous lyrics. She used to write terrific songs, but I don't think she puts much effort into it any more. Just my opinion.

All of them.

What do you mean "handling"? I use Winamp at work and all of my music is on an external drive. The drive itself is sometimes a bit slow to get up to speed when I fire up a playlist, but I attribute that to the drive and not Winamp.

I love a lot of Lucinda's early stuff, but her last few albums have left me bored and annoyed.