lost highway
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In other news I've listened to Binaural twice this week.....awesome album gets better every year removed...somehow is 20 years old this year.
You're so right. For my money Binaural, Riot Act and S/T all came around the time people started ignoring PJ, and are 3 excellent records. What came after hasn't been as satisfying.
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There is no obvious winner. A progressive ticket could alienate moderates and independents, a milquetoast centrist could be John Kerry or Hillary Clinton redeux. Sanders has energy behind him, that's more than we can say for anyone else right now.
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50th anniversary of this show. My fave Dark Star.
OMG I just figured out where this came from.
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Am I the only democrat on the planet who's feeling the Bernie excitement, but not the Buttigieg hatred?
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That's not a concern for them. One thing Republicans are good at is imposing rules and standards on the Democrats that they themselves are not beholden to.
And to be fair, Democrats are good at enforcing rules upon themselves that Republicans have happily ignored.
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I've been a litigator for over 35 years and have tried dozens of cases. I've never heard of a "trial" without witnesses or evidence. I hope there are consequences for this sham. For this traves-sham-mockery.
You'd think some Senators will be in the hot seat having been on the record as voting against witnesses in a trial.
They've really diminished their office, and I don't mean in the moral way you guys are already right about. If Congress votes to allocate funds and the President ignores it without explanation, that's diminished the Legislative branch.
I wonder if these Senators feel comfortable with their actions being a precedent, should the Dems ever have an Executive who plays dirty and gets caught.
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That new single is NOT what I expected. I can't see falling in love with it, but I'm excited that they're taking some new risks. They might pay off on some of the rest of the material.
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please watch at least the last 10 minutes to see how eloquent Adam Schiff was...all while Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn showed us what a true disgrace they are.
He's really so good. I've been listening on public radio to and from work..... some really incoherent yelling Republicans (and a few sloppy Democrats too) have taken the podium in both the House and now the Senate steps of the process. He's so clear, and calm, and focused. If I say Atticus Finch-esque is that too much?
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Still no Quiet Amplifier? I fear that song will never enter the rotation!
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Aw man, talk about having some FOMO,
Yeah, me too. My buddy is down there now. I have a feeling the next two setlists will also have some treasures.
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That's been my thing for the last few years, I want any kind of justice... if not legally, then cosmically. I'll take him being hugely embarrassed, or becoming frustratedly irrelevant, if we can't get him in jail, or throw out of office.
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Regrettably I've still never seen them live.
No matter what tepid album they're touring for, you should still absolutely go. If you've liked them for any length of time it will be worth a fair amount of cash to see them.... like our generation's Stones-level worth it.
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Pearl Jam plans to release a new album inspired by the melting ice caps, heinous climate change denial on their facebook ensues. Not sure if that part was funny or sad.
https://news.avclub.com/pearl-jam-are-finally-releasing-a-new-album-1840978410
I've learned to hope for the best and expect the worst in post 2010 PJ releases, but I always get curious. They have so much talent, they might use it right again.
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Strong start to HBO's The Outsider. Just started last Sunday. 2 episodes.
Nice, The trailer captivated me. It's on the watch list for sure.
I finally made it around to Barry and I'm binging it at 2-3 episodes a night. It's so good. Has the same worlds collide wackiness that Dexter had, but less campy, more cool. Also very funny.
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This kind of speaks to recent points you guys are making:
It's interesting to me that the scramble to support the assassination of Soleimani has only gotten messier and they haven't really put up anything to back their decision..... annnnd it seems like the media and the public has all but moved on in a week.
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I seriously decompressed with some camp/trash/popular binge watching:
The Witcher- cheesy in a self-aware way, gorey, over the top fantasy
The Mandalorian- I liked it best when it was a series-long arc, there were a few one-off procedural episodes in the middle that felt a little too Xena Warrior Princess for me, but the high parts were high.
I also watched His Dark Materials, and also thought it was an overall success. I've read all of the Pullman books from the series so I had pretty high hopes.
My wife and I finally finished Orange Is the New Black. We agreed two seasons ago that it had gone past its prime. The final season had a little more to offer, but was overall just okay.
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Bolton has been one of the most batshit warhawks to ever enter politics in this country in my lifetime since Wallace tapped Curtis LeMay for his VP in '68. If Democrats think he will help their case it shows how things desperate things can get when there is total obstruction from the Executive Branch (documents, testimony, etc.). To even entertain the idea that Bolton was a voice of reason in the room when he was in the WH reveals how beyond the pale we are at this point.
I agree, and disagree. Most anything in Bolton's spidery attic of neocon policies is abhorrent to me. Yet within that worldview is a form of patriotism (perhaps even nationalism) that however violent, still operates with a certain code of ethics. Bolton may celebrate the bombing of civilians to exert force on the world, but he wouldn't celebrate a U.S. politician pressuring a foreign government to investigate an American. By all accounts he was strongly against it. On top of that he has personal beef with Trump now. All of this coupled with the fact that he may be at the end of his career could give him great satisfaction in throwing Trump under the bus (see John McCain's thumbs down while voting on Trump's crap health care bill).
Then again, this could all be wrong. It's hard to find patterns in a system so chaotic.
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I'm wondering if Bolton's willingness to testify is a result of his calculation that the situation in the Senate is so in the GOP's pocket that he'll never have to.
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While this space continues to be an uncommonly civil place on the web for political discourse, we got awfully slow last year probably from exhaustion and burnout. The Trump years have taken their toll.
The ongoing barn storm of this presidential term may render anyone to be understandably disinterested in analyzing every flaming turd of political news flying at us daily, but it does not change the sheer academic curiosity that is the impeachment proceedings. This is an experiment in American civics that threatens to test the very notion of checks and balances.
In other news we have potential war with Iran.....
That's all I've got. Talk amongst yourselves.
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Yeah, in a century the impeachment will be the main idea for Trump in a trivia question.... hopefully without a remarkable second term as part of that.
It's funny how he had to shell out 2 million dollars for charity fraud a couple weeks ago on top of all of this. It was interesting when he screwed over the Kurds in Syria how the conservatives actually turned on him for a hot minute. Otherwise it seems they'll stick by him through anything.
Meanwhile I keep hearing two reasonable, compelling and contradictory arguments:
1) you can't win a purple state with a radically progressive politician
2) no centrist democrat has won a presidential election in the past couple decades (see Kerry, Gore etc)
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Can we get a quiet amplifier please?
Man, I want them to start playing that one live, even if it doesn't settle in for several shows.
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^ Proof that this is successful parody: I heard the melody in my head while I read it, and I laughed.
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Sunloathe- the Solstice Song
Politics 2020
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I would think he'd take some compromise, instead of nothing once he's in the big chair. That remains to be seen (or not seen at all).
It is a funny notion that Bernie or Warren could bring a big, bold health care initiative that could get whittled down by the legislature into something that would look more like what Biden or Buttigieg would cook up.