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Oh, hold up. Now that Palin is using it for her SuperWoman cape in a new ad, Obama is calling her out, and CNN.com is covering it. Yeesh!

Sexism, rampant sexism, working in the Republican parties favor. So strange. It can be said without thought of gender that Palin is a moron with theocratic tendencies sufficient enough to bring the U.S. back to the dark ages. And why has she gotten away with talking about the "bridge to nowhere" on tv without anyone besides John Stewart reminding us the whole thing was her fault to begin with. Crimeanee!

Mescaleros are cool. I will say that Streetcore is the best thing Joe Strummer did after Combat Rock which is pretty awesome if you think about dying on a high note. But Strummer solo better than the Clash? That's kind of crazy, I think.

No that was probably one of it's progeny. Those things are like Irish Catholics all they do is copulate and pray. They do throw in some creepy post-coital cannibalism, but that's just another addition to the confession.

This is the lynch pin of the entire Capitalist philosophy. In order to have a successful capitalism one can not have a true capitalism. It is always tempered with some degree of regulation, or *gasp* socialist programs. The U.S. of A. has historically done a great job of mixing these ideas in the past (although some people wet the bed if you paint us pink socialists), you can see this in laws against monopolies or public organizations like the USPS or the library system. This is the delicate balance that makes our country and economy work. On the one hand our government could be harde

Yeah. So much could happen. It's still scary no matter what. We live in a country that elected Bush a SECOND TIME. I will vote. Hold my breath. Pray.

Grading schools is problematic for a myriad of reasons. I see this happen all the time: School in shitty neighborhood has to perform to get better funding. Shitty neighborhood has messed up parents with messed up kids. School tests low and is not granted better funding. Score is published and the small community of parents that give a shit at the school decide to have their kids apply to go to neighboring school that is slightly better. Awesome extra curricular program can not start due to cut in funding. Families buying a house avoid neighborhood in district of school that tested poor

That's actually a really important point I forgot. I saw Mulholland the fist time in the theatre. Inland on DVD. Makes a huge difference.

"Excellent work once again Winston." (imagine this is said in a pretentious Oxford accent)

In England in 2006 and 2007 the average person spent 1,195 pounds a year on health care. That converts to about $2,125 US. I call that a massive improvement. Scotland is a little more expensive but haggis does awful things to your intestinal tract.

Politically motivated. And also true.

That right there is the logic gap, that seems to come out of everyone who is anti-socialized health care. You don't pay for them on your premium. You pay for them on your taxes. Your premium is through the roof cause the chairman of the board for the company that provides your health care wants a new yacht and his kid is ready for his second Ferrari and god damn it if you don't want to spend a hundred dollars just to get some albuterol for your coal power-plant, blackened lungs.

Some day you will see a VCer at a Wilco show wearing shorts. And down the back of their leg these letters will appear in the form of a tattoo.

No really. I pay $30 a month. That's my current health insurance plan. As to the rest of your knowledge, I absolutely agree that this nation is spending too much on health care, but again that is due in part to receiving health care from massive, private , corporations. The spending is getting bigger, not only as the need for care increases, but also as companies continue to gouge people and the corporate drug industry gets greedier. Take out all the mechanisms for profit and make it an efficient system that collects only what it needs to function (not profit) and it doesn't have to loo

I pay $30 a month for insurance in case something catastrophic happens. I've been to the Dr. once in the last five years and it turned out I didn't even need to. People like me (I know a lot of them) could make everything cheaper for everyone, so the less fortunate, and the elderly could have an easier shot at getting taken care of. And everyone can pay less. Again the cost of paying for something to sustain it, and paying for it so that corporate schmucks can turn record profits are two very different pictures.

We can smell a rat from around a mountain (hmm-mmm Palin). The Owl is a universal symbol of wisdom. If you slander them your efforts will be thwarted with bad ju-ju.

Loose Fur (s/t) is full of great moments. It feels somewhat ad hoc, probably because they just tossed off some songs. What makes it amazing is that it is still so freaking good. AGIB was made with a little more effort on big picture. Wasn't quite as improvised. Probes a little deeper. Might be one of my top ten albums of all time. The other poll was a toss up. This is a no-brainer. AGIB is the best.

I disagree with the donkey as mascot. Come on, get a good one. Democrats need to be owls not jackasses.

The important thing for people with good health care (and money to pay for it) need to remember, is socialized health care doesn't make paying for fancy pants health care illegal. Obama's plan sounds a bit more moderate than what we call 'socialized health care' and it would probably effect people with decent health care less than people with. The cost seems like a concern. But, when you consider an insurance company as a business overall, and break down what makes insurance expensive the cost of universal health care seems reasonable. An insurance company is inevitably populated with a d

I found Mulholland more watchable. Yes surreal and random but I could almost make an analysis, some kind of metaphorical way to take in a story line. Inland was just as weird, less fun, and still weirder. Then bunnies looked great though. Never saw Dumbland.

Townes is freaking amazing, most 'country music' is horrible. Uncle Tupelo is awesome, most 'alt country' is weak. I'd say you could plug new names into those sentences and write them about 20 times before you'd run out of candidates. This seems to be true of all genres.

Yeah. I feel Inland Empire might be his weakest, of the recent efforts.

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I'm not trying to start a post-modern genres are illusion discussion. (cause we all know they are somewhat but are useful as handles), but I never really put Being There down as "alt-country". It has some obviously country songs, but so many other things going on. Earle's El Corazon seems like one of his strongest albums to me. I would put it above Jerusalem, The Revolutions Starts Now, Guitartown. But if you want to talk about Earle doing alt-country, or really country rock (fucking genres) its all about I Feel Alright.

"Bettin on the bullllllllll in the heather." I love Kim songs. I like her a little better sultry than screamy, but either way she's awesome. I hear people complain about Lee Renaldo songs, but I also enjoy those.