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Steve Earle creeping people out probably isn't front page news.

Kinda breaks up that idea of Mormons as some sort of monolithic secret society...

Ragged Glory is fantastic. Glad that's getting some action. I totally would have skipped this tour because I cannot really make it through Americana. Good setlists though.

Maybe not, but Canada benefitted more from a lack of yellow cards.

Great soccer game on now. U.S. women v Can tied 3-3. Almost done in regulation. Breathless.

Also a demonstration on how little "waste" is actually part of our deficit problem. These are the worst offenders a deficit hawk like Coburn can find And it adds up to about 1/4 billion. Not even a drop in the bucket.

Fucking idiots.

I have friends on the left and right. I ignore many of those who make FB a mainly political forum, especially when they're mostly posting empty rhetoric. I have a few friends on both sides of the aisle I like to engage because we can do so in a constructive manner. One FB friend went from being a pretty liberal guy in HS to a raging tea partier now. I used to argue on the right of him, now I argue (probably hard for many to believe hear) way to the left of me. We keep it mostly civil and it hasn't affected our relationship adversely.

Oops, lazy reading on my part. Didn't get a lot of sleep last night. TWL by a mile. It's in the canon. SBS is good, though

For me, it's almost the opposite. SBS is every bit as much of a statement as YHF. W(TA) seems like it was an attempt to capture all of Wilco's phases in one LP, but not many of the songs are as great as the originals from those phases -- e.g., BBN is a watered down Spiders to my ears. I'm not a big W(TA) hater, but I do actively dislike Everlasting Everything and feel there's only 3 or 4 really solid songs on it.

Like comparing Michael Phelps and me in the pool. SBS.

First time I've heard someone who likes Everlasting Everything. I know people who tolerate it, but never really considered someone requesting it.

Do you really think anyone has ever been shut up by an opposing comment on FB?

This made me chuckle.

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But the main reason the budget looked great was the smoke and mirrors of the internet bubble. I think Bush missed a HUGE opportunity (not that he was looking for it, unfortunately) following 9/11 to bring discussion of sacrifice back into the political realm. People would have been willing to or shamed to pay more taxes or buy something like war bonds to support the fight in Afghanistan (if not Iraq). Tom Friedman at the time was calling for a $1/gallon gas tax. That would have been politically more difficult than Friedman let on, but the idea was in the right direction. The tax cuts the

A freight train fueled by the Internet bubble which was already beginning to burst. Clinton and the Republican Congress do deserve some credit for balancing the budget, but lets remember that the budget was balanced thank to increased revenues from mostly from increased incomes and job creation. A good chunk of that was smoke & mirrors from the internet bubble. Not as big or as fraudulent as the housing bubble, but still a big part of the late 90s economy.

Oh no you didn't!

I wish Wilco would bring It's Just That Simple back into rotation. Definitely the highlight of the Winter Residency for me.

I don't care for caricatures of Obama (born in Kenya, socialist, etc.) and I don't care for caricatures of Romney. I voted for Obama in 2008 mostly because Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency when her running mate is a cancer survivor scared me. I plan on voting for Romney, though I might just vote for some third party candidate like Buddy Roemer. Lost Highway, what words, other than evil, would you use to describe female circumcision, forced marriage, stonings, etc.? I know a lot of people who consider lack of availability of safe, legal abortion evil. I make no apologies f

Or put it on Spotify.

Did I use the word "evil" in describing Arab culture? Regressive and insular are not evil. Unfortunately, the treatment of women in parts of Arab culture are quite clearly evil. That alone is responsible for much of their lack of progress. My point is not to judge their culture as a rallying cry to American xenophobia ('merica, Fuck yeah, and that kind of thing), just to point out that Romney's comment was not completely racist stupidity. I agree with you about Israel. They have their own cultural issues to be sure. But that's besides the point we're talking about here. By what measur

U.S. can get credit for Israel's military might, but not so much their economic. Who has to "give" Arab nations the opportunity to industrialize? That's seems to me a very odd notion.

I agree with this pretty much 100%. In terms of communication, if not impact, I would add Reagan to Clinton & Kennedy.

Romney's Palestinian comments are regrettable and insensitive. Palestinians live pretty much in a prison. It is fair to ask, however, why so much of the Arab world lives in poverty while Israel lives in prosperity. It's a complex issue and our support of evil regimes like Saudi Arabia in the name of cheap oil is part of the answer. But so is an Arab culture that is regressive, sexist, and insular. Tom Friedman, a liberal and no fan of Romney, has written extensively on this.