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But what about his larger point? Not who he is, but what he's saying. People are more at risk of the flu, but more interested in ebola because of the media.

(whiny): I have most of theeeeseee! I want mooooooore!

Yeah, Texas has had thousands more measels cases than they'll ever have ebola, due to lack of health care and misinformation on vaccines.

It's going to be an interesting political season because everything seems pretty fragmented and undefined. The old guard GOP is still struggling with the Tea Party, while the right constituency struggles to decide which group represents their values. Many of the left are disenchanted with Obama's compromises and some of his more questionable decisions. The right is trying to court women, latinos and gays.... awkwardly trying. The economy has proven it's truly recovering, but the working class is underpaid- meanwhile most any attempt at raising the minimum wage has been handily shot down by

I still want to hear all of the excessive amount of songs they mention working on every time they put out an album. This is clearly a label raiding the vaults, otherwise they would have put "Message From Mid-bar" on there. The way I see it, they mostly put stuff that Warner Bros touched on there. It's still some great stuff. I almost wish I hadn't already heard it all so it would be new to me. I suppose I don't remember "Old Maid", is that one a winner?

So you've picked your 20?

Yeah I started to think that has more to do with the title. The rumored legal issues surrounding recordings of songs off of WTA indicate some label drama. I can see Wilco using a kiss off title directed at them, while it would seem too flippant a way for them to retire. That and Jeff already mentioned anticipating getting back into album recording with the boys. Sorry to be such an alarmist.

Alpha mike foxtrot, code for adios motherfucker. This bodes ill.

I appreciate the thoughts, and emotions of the review. The prose gets a little clunky here:

I'm willing to entertain negative criticism of art that I like. The problem with that guy's criticism is that it's not very good. At first I wondered if he was going to mention any songs, and then I realized there was a link to the actual review in that post (blog, whatever that was?). He mentioned about 3 of 20 songs in the review, and spent most of it projecting what he thinks Tweedy thinks and why Tweedy is wrong. He also spent time on what he thinks Tweedy's fans think, and why they're wrong. Oh internet.

I'll take either over WTA or the back half of SBS.

"Only the Lord Knows", along with "Jesus Wept" are on the last Mavis Staples record. They've been playing them since Jeff wrote them, although I wouldn't mind a studio version with him singing lead. Mavis' version of "Jesus Wept" was amazing.

Does a disc 2 preference indicate one's sense of melancholy?

It sounds better than 'You Never Know'.

It sounds like a George Harrison tune.

I actually like Accelerate and the last one.

Skeleton Twins was really good. A visceral combo of funny and sad.

Yeah, sometimes it takes a hundred shows or two to make that stuff settle into something that looks natural. That's the thing, if you don't choreograph the moves (thank God these guys don't) it's a slow evolution of nightly interaction. When Pat was new I thought his presence was awkward, but the group vibe eases in. Now it's a fun, hammy part of the show.

If yelling at a rock singer in the middle of a concert is where you place your environmental activism..... you don't know where to place your environmental activism. That's the kind of self-righteous shit that is responsible for zero progress and gives the green movement a HORRIBLE name. On a brighter topic, I'm surprised they're already playing a new song. If they keep this up Tweedy will end up recording again with a bunch of people not named Tweedy. I wonder when they'll take a live crack at "I'll Sing It".

After many listens I've decided that the album sounds better when I let it play, no skipping around. In other words the sequencing sounds good to me. The only song that doesn't work for me is "Down From Above".

Now that would be wild. I can see what you mean, though.

I figured it out "Where My Love" has piano playing that reminds of the piano parts on PJ Harvery's White Chalk. Which is weird because you can't stretch that comparison any further. Also I decided that "Pigeons", could be placed between "More Like the Moon" and "Wishful Thinking" on a compilation of Tweedy penned songs that can choke me up if I'm feeling a little emotional.

And who are they to go trouncing around sticking there nose in others' business, killing Vietnamese folks? At least America has never done that, and if we did I'm sure we would have greater military and economic success in the endeavor. Amiright?

I think it has more intention than you might think. This kind of process usually goes through a couple stages, first smashing language together in different ways, and second looking over the big mess and selecting pieces that work towards your purpose/ linking them together etc.

Roughly half of the people incarcerated in Federal prisons are convicted of non-violent drug offenses.