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Sometimes their English is actually worse.

It is A historic day. The AN is utilized with words that begin with a vowel or words that start with a vowel sound such as 'an hour'. This avoids a glottal stop used to separate consecutive vowel sounds. The use of 'an' before all h words is a recent sort of malapropism spread by the pretentious and unwittingly adopted by the unassuming.

Me either.

Also, as you may already know, the band sells high quality downloads of the shows on their website. You can get some good recent ones there.

That Swans stuff is so brutal. It's always easier for me to respect than enjoy. I favor the Angels of Light (don't tell my cool friends).

The way I figure it as a nonbeliever who listens to that stuff is that I have listened to a ton of pop music written about some girl. Now, I have thoroughly enjoyed these songs having never met the girl they are about. Sometimes I'm not even sure if she exists. Same deal with gospel.

We've seen historically how for some countries, economic shifts lead to political and ideological shifts. In some cases countries grow out of communism because of market incentives. Cuba is one of the only countries in the new world that we don't do business with (them and Venezuela right?). It's a country filled with a colorful culture, a characteristic cuisine, excellent agricultural zones, and a strong need to update some of their technological infrastructure. Opening that up to trade with the U.S. can only benefit us economically and culturally, and will likely benefit their citizens

I can't fathom how Cuba is going to be more of a threat to us when we are on speaking terms. When people get upset about our president speaking to othet leaders it seems weird. Additionally wouldn't it be strategically helpful to make Cuba sweet on us while Russia is on the ropes from the current oil prices?

Well the deficit is shrinking. Obama is still president. No one can do anything about abortion. Now gay people can get married in more parts of the country. It's been a very hard year for the world at large, but I'd say America is better off than it was 12 months ago. Oh wait, there's a civil rights crisis... so maybe not entirely.

That's an interesting contrast because we pay social security tax under the theory that we're individually contributing and will one day be entitled one share of whatever's left (thanks a lot dad!). When we pay for bombs or school teachers we contribute a lump sum.

Your graphic suggests welfare is 385 billion and defense is 839 billion, so no. You're wrong on that.

Yeah less on welfare than defense, less on education, also I said medicaid not "all healthcare". I will say, and I think you'd agree, the budget this year is uniquely thrifty in the military percentages but following a recent trend. I wont pretend to know your experiences, but the gig seemed to get a lot nastier after 2001. I've known a couple guys, and picked up some stories on the radio that made me think the best way to support troops is to prevent them from being forced into desert snipe hunts.

More than the safety net programs some people are always moaning about, or education, or even medicaid for that matter. None of these projects rely on nebulous intelligence reports from overseas or myth-making to try and trick some poor kid into joining.

I can't get past the disconnect between a libertarian impulse that suggests every wasted tax dollar is a sin against the American people, and a compulsive allegiance to a defense department that spends more, and costs actual human lives. That will never stop being weird to me.

It got plenty of press, but I ignored The New Basement Tapes project (with Jim James, Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford etc) due to low expectations. I ended up hearing it through family- there are some winning tunes on there.

"substantiated"

If a number crunch on what songs have and have not been played during a residency, as well as a recap of Tweedy's jacket choice, or perhaps a reflection on how the live music experience is life fulfilling- if all of the above is not to your level of fandom... I don't know how much dorkier we can get.

That's more than a little generous. I'm not sure if Powell would even agree with it.

This is one of my favorite things he's ever said.

I liked when they covered Thunderclap Newman, "Something In the Air" at Red Rocks some ten years ago.

Well, there's this

Texas has some finer points. Tacos in El Paso, rock music in Austin. It just seems weird to complain about a side effect to an economic approach while you're championing it. Like: no income tax is so rad, but the real problem with this country is a franchise tax that burdens small businesses who are barely profiting and property taxes that drive away big industry. Low tax burden right? I just like noticing where cognitive dissonance pulls the wool, my own kind does it with "go green" slogans and single occupant vehicles, or "race doesn't matter" folks. PS: Also worth mentioning, Hixter is

These decisions all affect the market and working people in different ways. In your case it meant your neighborhood was annexed.

Yeah those are something special. Fairly rare too.

And they boast an underfunded state that kicks things down to their cities and counties while making property taxes unusually high. Awesome plan lone star.