uncool2pillow

I TOTALLY forgot jazz! Agghh... Miles Davis Quintet - Workin', Relaxin', Steamin', Cookin' Charles Mingus - Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music, Brilliant Corners Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Downloaded it today. Seems to be working fine so far. Thanks for the tips on the add-ons. I esp. like the foxmarks idea.

Josh Rouse, they collected dust for too long.

I'm not wanting to go to 3.0 yet because of the problems w/ Vista compatibility previously reported on this board.

Sore Loser?

I own and love them all, and many other obvious omissions, but I was hoping to get some underdogs on the final list.

Just to clarify, that is most certainly not my POV.

I think there are plenty of good libertarians, but I don't know of any good libertarian candidates.

Most other countries in the Middle East view the very existence of Israel as a taunt.

I'm raising my kids to be a socially awkward as I was so I don't have to worry about this.

No doubt about the ultimate winner, but I'm curious to see how the percentages play out. McCain getting 30% or higher would be something of a surprise to me.

Hopefully anyone who votes other on either questions will post to explain their vote.

I thought about adding that, but thought "other" would suffice.

All this political discussion has been interesting and a bit more diverse than I expected on a Wilco board, I'm curious!

1. Workbook

I'm not sure, ask Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin.

I think the segment of the population that votes on SCOTUS issues (abortion, guns, gay marriage, etc.) will almost always vote for their party of choice because many either don't understand precedent and the principle of stare decisis or don't trust the court to respect it. Those who want their guns will still vote Republican, those who want to take them away will still vote Democrat.

No doubt the founders provided a context of the necessity of militias. What is the historical basis to say that owning guns to prevent crime would've been considered crazy by the founders?

On a semi-related note, does anyone watch the Morgan Spurlock show, 30 Days? This week, a woman against gay adoption lived with a gay (male) couple who had 4 kids. She would get so upset when people would question her beliefs that all of these gay people she was around shouldn't have children. The only justification she had was her religious faith, which is fine. But faced with the prospect of the lives these kids would be living without gay people being willing to adopt them, she still said it was "wrong" even though she admitted they were great parents. It was funny and sad at the same

The Supreme Court has lifetime appointments because they are supposed to ignore the day-to-day whims of the masses. I have no idea about the constitutionality of this case and won't bother to read this decision because it doesn't really interest me, but if they were to "punish" Exxon for an oil spill that happened nearly 20 years ago because of their massive profits today, I would completely lose faith in our court.

My introduction to the Replacements was - like most of the music I like - through my older brother (though, I'm proud to say, I turned him on to Wilco). Around 1986, he bought me Hootenanny because he'd heard a few good things about him, then browsing the record store, saw that Hootenanny had a song called "Buck Hill". That's a ski hill in the Twin Cities where we learned to ski. The Replacements song is a surf-rock instrumental. I always imagined it as a theme song for a show about a spy/porn star.

I might be interested. How much of a time commitment is required. I used to do fantasy football, but got tired of trying to figure out who the 14th best tight end in the NFL is.

In spring 1989, I read a review of Bob Mould's first post-Husker Du album, Workbook in Rolling Stone. I'd heard of them, but never listened. I bought Workbook and listened to it at a friend's house. His folks had a top-notch stereo system, which probably added to my appreciation of it. That was 19 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the most powerful musical revelation I've ever had. Every once in a while I go to RS's Web Site to re-read the review that led to the most important musical discovery in my life.

That was one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen.

This is the best parenting book that I've read. One of the authors of that also havs one on teaching that guides much of my classroom management style.