Doug C

Gee, there is a Wilco song that applies here. If only I could remember the name...

Yes, and unfortunately for those women, plenty of abusive "men" are looking for women with low self-esteem to control. It is much more these guys taking advantage of a certain type of woman than it is the woman putting up with abuse in the belief that their power to change the sociopath will one day win out.

Initially, I defended Zimmerman as far as understanding the Martin verdict in the light of the evidence presented, but this guy is clearly a nutter. I can't understand anyone defending his post-verdict actions. Divorces sometimes being crazy, relationships going wrong, the pressure he must be under, etc.... what more is needed for someone to put their hands up and say, "Okay, he was lucky that the situation that fateful night had an element of murkiness to it because he is an arsehole at best and a violent thug at worst."?

Medicare for all is the only way to go. Simply expand Medicare. If you don't like it, no problem. Feel free to pay privately.

You aren't far off. Hollywood lore has it that the only way that Lewis could hit that voice was because her assistant had his arm full-throttle up her ass.

This made me smile early this morning. Also brought back memories of a college friend and his untimely death senior year, 1985. He was the first to play me Bronski Beat. The video is Jimmy Somerville joining in on a busker covering "Smalltown Boy" while Jimmy is walking his dog. I love the end when the busker says, "Is it you?". http://www.spin.com/#articles/bronski-beat-busker-street-musician-smalltown-boy-jimmy-somerville/

5 years, 6 months and 13 days later... From Wikipedia "In 2013 Ward contributed guitar work to the Neko Case album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. Neko noted on her September 2nd, 2013 appearance on Comedy Bang! Bang! that Ward not only contributed but was "paid in full"." I am not trying to make a point. I am just bored at work (obviously, as I am reading 5 year old posts!). Besides, it fits in with the above Neko posts. 'Twas meant to be.

Ha ha! The fact that the gentleman that uses the name Jules chose not to respond to this speaks volumes. Well played, Kevin.

I agree that Link Wray is more deserving than many of induction. Also, he did it all with one lung, which is pretty damned rock and roll.

I agree. If you are truly concerned with someone's mental state, especially if that concern comes from having successfully worked through your own issues, you would show them respect by privately offering your sincere view. I find it hilarious that people are (allegedly) bothered because someone said "fuck off" on a mesage board. Especially when those people were and are being basic cyber-baiters. That being said, writing TEA Party rather than Tea Party seems silly to me. But where others saw a button to push, I could give a shit. But then, I'm 50 years old.

Say it loud 'cause you're..., aw, just look in the mirror.

Exactly. The fact that he did not see the irony in damning something that you haven't yet tried by reading a book about how being open-minded can be a good thing is delicious but also shows that he is not an intelligent man. I hope that an interviewer asks him to explain it all and refuses to let him weasel out of a real explanation.

Thank you. I wouldn't wish it on I Remember Daniel Boone. I only have the Wilco Solid Sound version of 'Get Lucky'. Will listening to that instead of Daft Punk be pleasing to God or will it cause Him to "break bad"? I don't want to know what could be worse than a loop of : "Son, the white man and Indians were fighting when you were bornAnd a brave called Yellow Sun scalped my little boy So I stole you to get even for what he'd done Though you're a full-blooded Indian, son I love you as much as my own little feller that's dead And, son, NovaLee is your sister And that's why I've always said

This made me think of Al Jolson singing 'My Mammy'. When I Googled imaged it to post a pic as a response, I lost my nerve.

Why, out of all of the possible songs that could randomly appear in my cortex, is it Rex Allen's "Son, Don't Go Near the Indians"? Am I being punished for future sins?

Yes.

I agree with the above, Hixter. Mental health care, health care in general, is poor in America. I speak from personal experience. Especially if you have no money, it can be incrdibly difficult to get the help you need. The irony is that for someone with a mental illness, the frustration that comes from jumping through all of the hoops to access what's available, can be too much. Especially if all of the proper effort fails. "As far as the majority of gun crimes, nothing will work until the segment of our society that glamorizes the gangsta lifestyle has a change of heart. Maybe a concerted e

I was raised with guns. I shot them throughout childhood. Well, bb guns, pellet guns, shot guns, .22s and 30.06 rifles. I never fired the little Beretta my dad kept under his side of the bed. Target shooting and quail/dove/squirrel hunting. My dad had stopped going on major hunting trips with my uncles after we moved to Florida. I was 6 when we moved so no elk hunts, etc. for me. That said, I haven't fired a gun in about 35 years. I don't own any guns and have no desire to do so. Gun ownership is such a part of our culture that no tragedy, no matter how horrific, will lead to any radical l

The only radio I listen to is NPR plus Sirius once a year in a rental car. I haven't really heard any current hits for many years. I have no idea what Auto-tune effects sound like. Could someone please provide a basic description? Thanks.

hot·head (hthd) n.A quick-tempered or impetuous person. Well okay then. A hothead. All of this ranting and the final and succint explanation is that he is a hothead. Hell, at times I'm a hothead. By the above definition and your VC behavior, you're a hothead. Are you as upset about yourself as you are Zimmerman? I'm not that worried about hotheads. I'm much more concerned about amoral murderers, rapists, etc. Much to the pleasure of all, I will no longer post about George Zimmerman. Thanks, IRDB, for the honest reply (and for not saying it in all caps like a hothead. BECAUSE HE GOT AWAY AND T

Maybe this is bad form to push a reply but seriously, no BS or baiting intended but as coherently as possible, what is so clearly going on with George Zimmerman? I honestly don't know what you mean.

Enlighten me, please. I admit that it is not clear to me. What is going on with Zimmerman?

Firstly, I am not a "defender" of Zimmerman. I have never met the man but I have no admiration for him nor anything positive to say about him. I agree with you that his own actions put the spotlight on him and are keeping it there. I do not "get up everyday and say nice things about this sociopath". I don't recall ever saying anything nice about him. Until now because I guess you could consider it nice for me to say that I doubt that he is a sociopath. It seems clear that he has a social conscience. There are sociopaths among us but is Zimmerman one? I am not a mental health clinician but I

What does that mean? When you heard about the 3 recent senseless shooting deaths of children that I cited above, were you as outraged and emotional as you are about Trayvon Martin? If not, why? Why are you more aggrieved by Trayvon Martin's death than a child shot in a stroller or a child shot while in his sitter's arms, both in broad daylight? Why does a death ruled justifiable by a jury cause more vitriol than the murder of any innocent child, not just the 3 examples I mentioned. Totally unjustifiable homicides with zero ambiguity occur daily. What makes the Zimmerman case the gold standard

Trayvon Martin's death was tragic but I don't understand why it has such a higher level of outrage than say, the child shot while in it's stroller, the child shot while in the woman's arms, the recent child killed in a drive by, etc., etc. I don't get it. They are at least equally outrageous to Zimmerman/Martin. Personally, I am far more outraged by those tragedies than by Martin's death. Of course, I have an idea about what accounts for the difference...