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In defense of the Replacements: They were really never hard core, or even punk, when that was all that mattered in indie. Paul Westerberg could turn a phrase or melt you heart like no songwriter from the 80s. Their music still sounds vibrant and alive much more than, say, R.E.M. Their live shows were unpredictable, spontaneous, drunken messes. Perfect rock and roll attitude. This says nothing of their influence on the artists who followed, probably none more than Wilco.

Margaret Cho was in the Bob Mould tribute concert a couple of years ago. She can't sing, and she's not ever made much of an impression upon me as a comedienne. Oh well.

You're dead to me.

I have heard that some states have had premiums go up, others go down. There could be a ton of economic factors at play. One would expect them to go down because you have more healthy people joining the insured. But now purchasing insurance is a requirement, increasing demand, and possibly allowing insurance companies to take advantage of the requirement by raising or keeping rates the same to increase their profits.

Yeah, Fox News is pretty much the equivalent of my retired family members who have nothing better to do than click "share" on unverified Facebook stories all day.

Repeating myself on this thread, but I think Royal Tenenbaums is the most emotionally satisfying and my favorite WA movie. This looks damn good.

Are the Monkees in?

Once I figured that out, this place became a lot more enjoyable.

How cool would it be for the 'Mats to go in with KISS and play Black Diamond together in the induction? Not going to happen, but still...

Harvest / Harvest Moon

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Nice analogy.

You've heard him play? Whoa.

Make sure you watch Malala Yousafzai on the Daily Show from yesterday. I really want her to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Friday.

Wow. Other than your 1st sentence, this has nothing to do with my post. I didn't -- and mostly wouldn't -- defend the tactics, salaries, or profit margins of pharma companies except to say those who develop truly life-saving meds deserve to be well-compensated. My post was entirely what you said about doctors and you pretty much ignored my reply. But thanks for your thoughts anyway.

This and many other statements you made about doctors sure paint with a broad stroke. Reminds me of the kinds of things some people on the right were saying about my profession (public teacher) around the time Scott Walker was stirring things up in Wisconsin. I have a family doctor, have seen a few specialists in my time, my son sees a pediatric neurologist. I have had bad experiences with a small handful, but I firmly believe the great majority have striven to provide me and or my loved ones with appropriate care. Most of the make a helluva lot more money than me, but I believe they de

I suppose my biggest concern about ACA is employment. There seem to be a lot of reputable reports of businesses hiring my p/t and less f/t because they don't want to provide the required insurance. On a semi-related note, I don't know if I've posted it here, but Steven Brill's cover story for Time on hospital costs is required reading. Health care reform needs to include some transparency in medical billing. Hospital chargemasters are downright evil. It's one thing for me to pay $8 for a beer a ball park because I'm a captive audience. I don't need the beer, and the cost is well adver

Best part of that article: Shutdown #3: The Abortion Shutdown II: Abortion Boogaloo

I consider myself a fiscal conservative. Moderately conservative, but to the right, nevertheless. Having said that, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that the ACA is worth all of this. And the shudown is one thing. If Congress refuses to increase the debt limit in a few months, they're really going to fuck things up. I am all for shrinking the debt, but failing to increase the debt limit DOES NOT accomplish this. The only way to do that is for both parties to negotiate a damn budget! All failing to increase the debt limit will do is force us to not pay our bills on debt already a

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Oh man, Lammy living in a house with guns. The mind reels. "Just put it in the microwave, thank me later."

I don't have brunch often; but when I do, it's a beautiful day.

You live in Texas, so I'll assume that you know more about her than the color of her shoes and her stance on abortion when you label her a lightweight. I don't even recall the woman's name right now, so I don't know nothin'.