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Thanks for posting the above. Krauthammer seems to have captured it, as no other explanation seems to make sense. Impressive indeed. 

My mistake. They didn't kick him, they kicked him out of the band. Total dicks, indeed. A & M didn't earn any awards for caring about their employees, either. What a sad story.

i think they kicked him and then he killed himself.

Damn. Being kicked by the rest of the band is harsh but to respond with suicide? He had to have some serious mental health issues.

No one else calls it an invasion. Google "Carter invaded Iran". Nothing. I found a few "should Carter have invaded Iran" but nothing referring to Carter invading Iran. I expect that you will say that by definition it was an invasion. History doesn't call it one, but this is the Internet, so you are free to say that Carter invaded Iran.

Carter invaded Iran? Are you referring to the ill-fated rescue attempt of the hostages?

How I love the late, great Housemartins...

Sarah, rather than slogging through a huge list of posted bands, my advice would be to find out Say Anythings' influences and focus on them. After all, Say Anything is the band in the genre that you really dig. You probably thought of this on your own anyway. 

I did a VC search and didn't find a thread about this so... I Google imaged "Tweedy". No quotes, just Tweedy. The results were unexpected.

Thanks for that review. Wow. It got even better when I found that it is an edited version. The unedited version is in the comments section. It isn't much different. The only logical answer is that Ben Kaplan utilized the National Post's casting couch to earn a byline.

Interesting notions regarding the end of Wilco as we know it. I didn't see TWEEDY and the concurrent projects as pointing to that, but I see the reasoning. I've followed Jeff Tweedy from Uncle Tupelo through all the Wilco incarnations. It's clear to me that it's Tweedy I like, so what ever happens, I expect music that I enjoy. I agree about John staying. I'd add Glenn, too.

I, too, had positive PM interactions with her. Jules was Jules, never understood why people got all twisted knickers. Too bad that I was on one of my VC hiatuses when they were banned. Being human equals being curious. C'est la vie, say the old folks...

Anyone ever hear Jimmy LaFave's version of Walk Away Renee? Totally different vibe.

It's one of the rare covers that exceeds the original.

Jimmy Liggins - Cadillac Boogie   1947, the year rock and roll was born. Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner's reworked version, Rocket 88, came out in 1951.

"Feed the Tree" - Belly

"He's putting together a band, he'll have a crackerjack band..."

That mayor interview was chock full of info.

No appeal to be the 7th Wilco, indeed! Hilarious. Christ Jeff, our savior. Is John a specific Roman emperor or just generic one? Are they all meant to represent an alter ego? If that becomes an official tour poster, then Wilco wins best band ever. The only topper would be an uberfan getting inked with it.

Go. By all means go. We went last May and it was excellent. Fantastic set list, great band and Paul was a ball of energy. 5 guys having fun. You would never guess he was 71 if you didn't know it. I bought the cheapest seats in the last row of the farthest away nosebleeds but a few days before the show, I bought 14th row center seats for less than half price on Ebay and sold mine on Ebay for what I paid. Money well spent. We vowed to see him every year but we will be in Newfoundland during all of the dates in driving distance. So much for vows. Enjoy.

seems awfully closed-minded not to accept the possibility that someone might have had an experience that makes her rationally believe in the existence of a god as surely as someone else rationally believes in the scientific evidence of evolution.

I understand what you are saying but the rationality of science is factual, the rationality of a religious experience isn't. Many religious experiences, such as "near-death" experiences, have rational scientific explanations (I cover them in AP Psych) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peace-of-mind-near-death/  http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/08/12/211324316/brains-of-dying-rats-yield-clues-about-near-death-experiences . Choosing to interpret the light at the end of the tunnel as God, is fine, but it isn't rational. I accept that someone believes that the dream they had was God talking to them but I don't accept that it is rational to do so. That said, do I believe in things that aren't backed by objective, scientific evidence? Of course.

I also don't understand "believing" in scientific evidence. You either rationally accept science or you irrationally don't.

That wiki definition of creationism is accurate, which is why creationism should not be taught in public school nor seen as scientific.

Evolution is science, religion is philosophy. An understanding of both are important to the human condition, but they are not the same. Science deals with the knowable, philosophy deals with the unknowable. They are compatible but not interchangeable. At the dawn of humankind, everything was philosophy. Due to our amazing cognitive abilities, not to mention our opposable thumbs, the list of things labeled philosophy gradually became smaller and smaller as science moved them from the unknowable to the knowable. There is no real debate between evolution and creationism. One is supported by scientific evidence, mainly facts. The other is supported by emotion, mainly fear. 

Uh, not really. 

Did I actually have to specify "attractive female" along with the word Asian? You strike me as at least a little smarter than that. Lol

Did he actually have to specify "I am not making a reference to your sexuality but a humorous observation that someone being turned on by Asians but turned off by obesity could have a conundrum if they met an obese Asian"? You strike me as at least a little smarter than that. Did you honestly think that he was purposeful in choosing sumo wrestlers so that he could make a point about sexuality? If so, wow.

 

Several of my friends' wives won't go near a gun (even though there are safes full of them in their bedrooms) but that doesn't mean my friends are bad gun owners, it just means that their wives don't want anything to do with guns. It's a personal choice that they are free to make. In every case that I can think of, they allow their preteen sons and daughters to shoot guns with their fathers.

 

I figured you'd misread it; no big deal. But I most certainly have not defended an opinion piece as being unbiased; I've resisted efforts by a VCer or two to get me to denounce it as biased because of its source. I don't insist that other posters decry articles sourced from NPR and HuffPo as left-biased, so I will ignore efforts to do the same to me.

Several of my friends and family members own guns. If they are married, they either both carry and/or shoot or the non-shooting spouse is fine with the spousal gun ownership. My opinion is that owning a gun is a decision that both parties should be cool with. I don't see a situation where one spouse is fearful of a gun in the house/on spouses person, as a model one. I admit that is my opinion.

It isn't the source that's the problem. The Tampa Tribune, though I subscribe to the Tampa Bay Times, is a legitimate newspaper. The article you linked is an opinion piece in that newspaper. It would be silly to disregard something as biased simply because the source is NPR. If it is an opinion piece, yes. If it is a news report, no. The type of article is what matters.

 

In what way?

 

Who here has done so?

 

In the way that his wife seems so anti-gun. In my world, spouses would be in harmony on such a major issue.

You but clearly your posts on page 179 were laughably mis-interpreted by yours truly. Please accept my apology.

I agree. He certainly doesn't present himself as a model gun owner. I found it hilarious that his wife seems none too pleased with his gun ownership.

Tom Jackson is a columnist for the Tampa Tribune, not a reporter. By definition, the article is biased. Clearly words like "hostile" and sentences such as "But let’s hope John Filippidis, American family man, taxpayer and good guy, doesn’t cave, because it would be a sad statement about the brittleness of our guarantees — some would call them sacred — under the Constitution.", are meant to present a specific viewpoint and to provoke outrage. Again, it is an op-ed piece, not a straight news report. How could anyone defend it as unbiased and not inflammatory?

Also, I am certain that I either went to high school with Filippidis or knew him via a brother. Small world.

She was great on the flute in One Night In Paris.

Right! That was  from an episode of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door.

He has an Academy Award, you know. How do you know he wasn't acting?