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You'd think there'd be more word on a release date seeing as its done and Wilco is on some combination of recess/ recording. I imagine it'll be on Drag City like the last two.

But- total devil's advocate here- can't you just call that an infringement on constitutionally guaranteed free speech? Like the Koch brothers can speak (i.e. donate millions) to candidates in any county, district, or state?

I think the free speech angle is bunk because it's being used to defend corruption. We need to look for another legal precedent to define the financial ethics of it. For example, you can not call giving a police officer money "free speech", it's a bribe. You can't pay a principal of a public school to put your child in your favorite teacher's classroom (or to hire or fire a teacher). I realize both of these analogies are problematic, but I feel it's a good time to brainstorm. Perhaps the best angle is not that it's illegal for the Koch brothers to donate millions, but that it's illegal f

I saw it. First quarter of the film I thought it was almost exhaustingly ornate. Anderson's perfectionist set design has reached occasionally distracting heights. Maybe it was sensory adaptation, or the story picking up, but the last half of the film it gave me a grin that would not go away. There were some really sharp sight gags that had me chuckling while the theater sat silent (maybe they didn't get it). Think of the wittiest Marx Brothers moments and then line them up one after another. I have a friend who criticizes Anderson for having an endless run of films that have a problemat

The one thing that often gets missed in the perennial GOP vs. Democrats, who makes unreasonable arguments and has more biased media in their favor etc etc thing is this: Underlying both sides of the aisle is a corrosive financial influence. Corporate interests and lobbyists have removed the federal political mechanisms from the will of the people. The most significant difference I see is that the right wing is brazen about who puts money in their pocket and the left is embarrassed about it. Sometimes it feels like Obama carefully makes statements that could compromise the big oil agenda,

I keep meaning to sit down and woodshed this beat until I can do it, but somehow the 3-4 hours it might require never come up. The strength of Glenn is that that beat is incredibly busy but it doesn't sound like it in context. If he was playing it with a tiny fraction less skill it would make the song sound pretentiously technical, but instead he grooves that shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring Edit: 66rebilac. I only just now realized that you had your own cheeky turn for the argument, while I had another: sarcasm mis-referencing ironic comedy... oops Meanwhile, is Hixter convinced of either a. the proper homonym usage, or b. logically sound basis for an argument? Or c, will Al Gore selling a fish bicycle to stop carbon emission help people find their way to the facts?

The greenhouse effect is a fact. A character judgement on the people trying to help you understand it won't change the data; they indicate that the temperature has been steadily rising by significant levels, the sea levels are rising, and the glaciers are shrinking. Debate over. Where you're getting lost on the issue, is simultaneously why there is so much willful ignorance channeling disinformation: the reality of this problem challenges almost every aspect of modern life. It's easy to criticize geologists in SUVs, but that's not really grounds for taking apart their scientific work. Mo

Animal Boat, an allegory about creationist politics.

I was listening to a story about how from a banking confidence perspective Russia is still considered a "failed state". Their politicians and tycoons do most of their banking through the U.S. So, yeah, a lot of assets could be frozen. Money talks. Maybe that's the best step.

My heart goes out to the Ukranian people who seem to be stuck choosing between their own ousted leader and foreign invasion. That said, the western powers' military engagement may have factors beyond "balls". A general assurance of benefit is subverted in complexities beyond our wildest imagination. The thought that an outsider presence would stabilize things domestically for the Ukraine is assuming an awful lot before you even consider a stand-off with Russia.

Bill Nye spoke of a project that was undertaken to confirm or disprove the possibility of the proverbial ark. High-ranking engineers built a ship of approximately biblical size and it was unusable, and unstable. But hey, go Kentucky.

5% cut. We're still overspending in comparison to the next G13 countries at a WTF level.

True, and that ain't blasphemy, it's gospel.

Well, our massive military budget takes a modest cut, AZ is unwilling to pass a bigoted bill in our present political climate and consumer confidence is up. Oh yeah, and we've had some spring-like weather a few days a week in CO, which matches nicely with the windfall surplus of revenue collected on legal marijuana totaling at an estimated $100 million for the year. I guess politics isn't all bad.

As a fan of all of the above genres, I think that's where my side comments came in. But to each his own, they've clearly brought more joy to people than ridicule from assholes like me. Time for new blasphemy: The Counting Crows are often amazing in spite of their frequent cheesyness.

1. Sometimes Interpol is more interesting than Joy Division. 2. Sublime is an ironically titled band (they suck).

I agree. I also feel it's fair to say that if someone categorically rejects any scientific revelation that challenges their mythology they are willfully ignorant.

It's not a binary choice. The acceptance of some well established scientific facts does not somehow eradicate wonder, mysticism, a sense of interconnection, or awe at powers greater than ourselves. Anyone who tells you those are your choices is trying to put one over on you.

Well.... I peek at Wilcoworld every few weeks, even when it doesn't seem like anything's going on. Often they've had their homepage photo from a recording session, long before there is any press about them being in album process. I was curious recently when I saw a small drum kit mic'ed up with a million guitars around it. I thought "There's no way that's Glenn's kit." It reminded me of the minimal kit that Spencer played on the Mavis record. It made me wonder if Spencer was recording more at the Loft. I guess there's your answer.

But that right there was the most important point Nye made. Belief in God, or even Jesus for that matter has been sustainable for millions of people who understand and accept the basic tenants of our natural history as well as astronomy. The close-mindedness can come from either side here, but the insistence that any factual knowledge that challenges a literal interpretation of an ancient myth must be wrong is the most damaging to the progress of both science and religion. There is a challenge to modern spirituality that some people can't reconcile. If you live in a world of literal bibli

bleedorange, yes, yes and yes. Any religious view that prompts an upset kind of response to any new scientific revelations is one that is allowing itself to become obsolete. The metaphorical application of an ancient hebrew folktale has limitless possibilities for insight. The literal application of it, at this point in history, can only serve to make the religion that demands said view obsolete and combative to knowledge.

Ham says essentially: There's a difference between historical science and observational science. As I demonstrated there are astronomers who observe space today that have not problem accepting the history from Genesis. They use science to observe phenomenon now, but not historical science which is to project explanations on the past when you weren't there. God is our best authority because he was there. Nye says: But you are studying the past. That's all astronomy is. It takes many, many years for the light from the stars you are observing to reach the earth.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/04/271648691/watch-the-creationism-vs-evolution-debate-bill-nye-and-ken-ham No it's not the first time this has been hashed out, but it's being hashed out by two of the most popular champions of their respective sides. Very entertaining.

Oh hell yes.