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Agreed. This CD feels like it pick up where "The Needle Has Landed" left off and just keeps rising.

OK then. Hey, you with the tumor, not so fast!

Yes, free lunches should be easy, BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE THEM!!! (sorry to shout.)

Fine. So let's start a priorities list. Where does "Upgrade Free Lunches" fall? Before or after Universal Health Care? Heat and Housing?

So, what's the answer? Who is responsible for these kids forced to eat cheese sandwiches? Should they layoff more teachers so all kids can have identical lunches?

And that's fine. I get a more agitated when Jeff goes all whiny about talkers in the audience. Frankly, I don't think Wilco goes overboard with their causes; they're hardly poster children. The idea that just because someone is an entertainer they can't also be an activist is a bit dicy to me. They may alienate fans that way, but it's their band, their career and their call, just as with every fan it's his or her own money. In a perfect world, everyone's words and deeds would be 100% consistent. But if that were the requirement for stepping into the forum of debate and ideas, things would

Seems this story's more about looking a gift horse in the mouth rather than about kids going hungry. I mean, it sucks that the kids feel stigmatized, but, frankly, they're getting more than their parents paid for. Anyone who wants to start a charity drive for free school lunch upgrades, go at it.

That seems to be the prevailing theory. Of course, that's how "Day In The Life" came about. As the kids say, "It is what it is."

What you're missing is that the corporations don't need the middle class as consumers anymore. Real growth is in the emerging nations. 20 years from now there will be no middle class. Have a nice day.

It's not like they're in their basements burning CDs and distributing them themselves. They're on a label, and that label has other artists, and that label deals with these stores. It's pretty unrealistic to think any band can exercise that kind of control over distribution, unless they start their own label, which I imagine is rather expensive and time consuming (the Beatles couldn't pull it off). It's a messy world and no one has totally clean hands and if you spend too much time trying to keep them clean, you won't have time for much else.

Hear it on hypem.com. to my ears it's just No. 1 with a bunch of studio tricks added on, which is fine, but not that exciting, even if it is authentic. They had those tricks on Pepper, too. Of course, I was never a big fan of No. 9. Now, gimme the forgotten take of You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)!

Right, and Clinton was in 1988 DNC. But they didn't really become part of the day-in-day out part of the National conscious until about a year before Iowa. Lots and lots and lots of people do not watch the conventions.

Recent presidential history has not be kind to guys who have been on the national stage for more than a couple of years. Clinton, W and Obama have benefited from being fresh faces. Are they rolling out Jindal too early?

A little disconcerting seeing my congressman reaching for Obama's autograph like a kid at a baseball game. Much more disconcerting to be reminded that my congressman is Kucinich.

Money line: "Living our values doesn

I've been saying for years, why should Joe Citizen be any more fiscally responsible than the US Govt? I was a complete sucker/rube for buying a house that I could actually afford.

Listen now. Remember, we're all day-to-day. I like listening to the crickets while watching Colbert.

Poor Neko. Sick in Europe is no way to kick off a new album tour. Get well soon.

For all us law-abiding, paranoid, clueless souls out there, NPR will be streaming the album starting at midnight tonight. Perfect way to start my Tuesday-Wednesday weekend.

The Almighty DBC!!!

Of course, W was always treated with the utmost respect:

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I'll wait two weeks. Uncomfortable downloading albums.

Remember "Rock mecca of the Midwest" from "Almost Famous"? Swingos Celeb. Inn shut down years ago, but it's the same family.