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You raise some really good questions. Equity gets really tricky when it comes to enforcing social responsibility. One wealthy person calls being busy checking the growth on their investments and sipping the vintage, another is a 60 hour ghost, hustling to earn. It's so strange to live in a society that attributes value by price. My girlfriend has acknowledged that she has an easier job than mine, even though she makes almost twice as much as I do. Cubicle vs classroom.

Jude you're laying out a good first-hand experience of the complexity and difficulty of the system of taxation, public infrastructure and bureaucracy. What has been on hand here however, is really a discussion about socioeconomic class, entitlement and responsibility. I find that when people of wealth shudder at a fairly rational acknowledgement of privilege and it's power by our president, they are revealing their ignorance on the dynamics of poverty. The bristling offense taken reeks of aristocracy and old-money cloaked behind the "American dream". If you can't imagine how some numbsk

You don't think that's true?

I devoured Storm of Swords so quickly on airplane travels that I found myself popping into random bookstores in Buenos Aires to see if they had English books. Finally picked up A Feast for Crows while connecting flights home in New Jersey. Just peeking at the appendix with the households is making me a little intimidated by the size of the cast. It looks like he did take a break from dragon life across the sea to settle the ever-spiraling political splintering in the Westeros. God.... I never thought I would sound like such a dork. Another testament to Martin's greatness: he turns non-fa

I left the country for a couple weeks and now I'm trying to sort out where the political discussion is at right now. First thing I see is Jon Stewart tearing Romney a new asshole (comically) for "retroactively retiring" from his mega corp that laid of Americans and sent jobs overseas. Romney also ducked behind a blind trust for his finances which he claims is responsible for his offshore tax havens.

Yeah, I was pumped to see some reviews on that. They had a more meticulous approach than their seeming randomness would suggest. Hours and hours of unreleased recordings would suggest that they edited aggressively.

The good news is their new album is great, and you don't need any evidence or unification.

I also like the theme song to "The Wonder Years". Did they play the song from the Sprint commercial?

That's a song by Big Star.

I don't know if it's fair to call Can progressive. They do have complex playing and longer songs, but they're not in the same 'high concept' realm. They also improvised almost everything they recorded. Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi are my favorites. It's krautrock. Almost as absurd as Faust. It means nothing, intentionally. The things that could draw a person into Can would be some of their more magnetic grooves, and a playful sense of psychedelia. There is a sense that you're listening to some crazy characters making something bizarre, and loving every moment. The thing that could t

The Dude abides.

Two points that seem striking about Romney: - As pointed out, running against the ACA would be idiotic since he kind of invented it. - No one on here who's mentioned voting for him seems to have any passion for him. In fact I'm not convinced that Jules, or Bleedorange even really want to vote for him. He's that tepid and meaningless of a politician. He's like a Mormon cyborg with a handsome face that just absorbs whatever crap might poll well and then pukes it into a microphone while he sounds uncomfortable. I'm not even sure if Romney has won his own vote. This one struck me:

The interpretation of it as a tax to get it through the supreme court seems to me to be fairly semantic. The conservative media is running with it like: "This is imposing an additional tax on middle class families." Except all of the families that have coverage already won't be paying any tax, and the tax/penalty that uncovered families, who could afford it, but opted not to, are then taxed so that they can be covered. So..... not really a normal tax hike. I think the best this can do is fairly well, I also think it's pretty sure it will succeed in this regard. If some time can pass and

Thanks for sharing the link. Clarified some details for sure.

Well, I need to read the fine print, but hopefully the penalty would also function as coverage. I do know that I was "under insured" when I dislocated my shoulder years ago and the trip to the hospital set me back five grand (for x-rays, and two minutes with the doctor popping my shoulder back in). I worked out a payment plan, but 5 grand was a huge drain on my finances over the course of a couple years. Long story short, the "penalty" right now is already very expensive.

The Supreme Court upheld the Health Care Act.

That was delicious.

I too love Deeper Down more than most songs. This leads me to believe that you are right, I am right and anyone who thinks otherwise is a buffoon. Should anyone question the quality of that song without the insertion IMHO I will challenge them to fisticuffs posthaste. Zounds!

Sorry, I'm a recording engineer, which makes me hear things in funny ways. So.... it's not something about song writing, or lyrics. It's literally the way microphones, eq's etc. were used in their space. It sounds like it was recorded with a mic one inch away from everything in a room with really thick carpet everywhere. There is not a lot of breath, it doesn't sound 'open'. If you listen to it and W(TA) right in a row you can hear how different the approach was.

This.

I'll take the front half of W(TA) over the back half of SBS any day. While I loved the production on SBS and still do, it's a little wooly and claustrophobic, it makes W(TA) sound really open and clear. I'd say, of course, that the sound of TWL splits the difference between warm/intimate and open/smooth- that and I think the song quality control is higher through the entire new album.

On a non-military note. How do the Romney fans feel about the fact that middle class tax, and small business taxes are lower under Obama than Bush?

What I mean is we've spent a massive amount of money on that tool, and it hasn't brought us or the world any prosperity (unless you own stock in the arms industry, read: the tail that wags the dog). We sit in the richest country with an embarrassing health care crisis, a public school system that is still in need of innovation, and the untapped potential to lead the world in efficient high-speed mass transit, and clean energy. But, people are getting excited (or more commonly, grumblingly obliging) to vote for a guy who wants to make sure the world knows we once again have indisputably the

Write a blog on it and boom! You too are industry. Edit: Oh! Here it be:

What could possibly wrong with the already formidable size of our military? Why would we want to invest more in a complex that has brought us and our unfortunate targets nothing but ruin in the past six decades? Korea, Vietnam, Irag, Afghanistan, count 'em up man. One shit show after another.