LouieB

Yea, it is all clear, so why even bother still talking about it. Perhaps we are talking small differences here, but some people still recognize that and are interested in the reality of those details. So let it go. Have all the personal fantasies you want about how the world is ending if you like. We all have those as well as myriads of utopian ideas about how much better things could be. You really want to hear all my personal crack pot ideas about a perfect world? It is Sunday morning and I am going to bet your life looks about like the rest of ours; a day off with our families and frien

Really Sparky, I can't figure out what you are trying to promote here. Not even a clue. LouieB

All that is true. I am not opposed to rap, that's an exageration. Like I said, there is plenty I have heard and enjoy and I have heard Tribe Called Quest and The Roots, etc, all of which do have some jazz roots to be sure. I like sampling too, to an extent. But as far as misogeny goes, rap took that to an extreme you don't find in any other genre including early rock and roll, blues or whatever. Ultimately it is really just a question of what anyone wants to listen to on a regular basis. I just don't have the interest in listening to rap more than I do, although I do like to occasional

Oh yea, I own the Grey Album and the Outkast quadruple LP which i have never listened to, but heard some of it on the radio. Neither of those qualifies as great music, even while they are interesting in some ways. The Grey Album is simplly a mash-up of other people's work, that while clever is hardly great art. I give Danger Mouse plenty fo credit. The two Gnars Barkley albums are quite good in general, but what gets them kudos are the great songs and Cee-Lo's actually ability to SING and put across a great song. So unlike Mr. Heartbreak I actually own a small percentage of rap albums I gu

You are right. And I think i contradicted myself by saying I actually do like some of it (see other postings.) Rap is inescapable really. Unlike jazz which no longer is played hardly anywhere and where you have to actually seek out the music, hip hop is ubitquitous; it is in movies, TV, commercials and all over the radio. But unlike jazz, you really don't have to dig to find really incredible stuff. Put on any album by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dophy blah blah blah blah, infinitium and you will find great and very skill

You and me too brother. I think I like opera more, but not much. I have also gotten into those discussions here and admittedly there is some rap I can tolerate and Public Enemy had lots of social commentary involved which gives it some interest to me. But so much of the rest is just a bunch of crap cobbled together by folks who borrow beats, samples and simply can not sing and have nothing to say. Most have to hire someone else to fill in the vocal chorus' that sometimes grace some of the numbers. I have had a free download of Das Racist on my iPod for about a year and I have come to lik

I don't consider any of this rap, but that's just me. It looks like you are batting .000 on the rap scale.Kudos to you..... LouieB

Maybe so, but Romney has elevated or sunk depending on your perspective, to new highs or lows even for a politician. LouieB

I'm aware of that, but I was refering to the last 24 hour news cycle. This guy can't get his story straight for even a few hours. LouieB

Not offering the PE LPs. Those I like and plan to keep. Sorry. I have the first 4 I believe. LouieB

You must not have watched or read the news. Romney said two completely different things about abortion just within the last couple days. LouieB

Did I mention I own a few PE LPs. I own a few odd CDs incluidng Arrested Development and Eminem. Someone can take them off my hands any time. I did see PE a few years ago at Pitchfork, that was kinda fun. LouieB

See its so simple..... Group Hug!!! LouieB

They are saying it was a terrorist attack. They may have have been misinformed or they may have hedged on what happened but actually they came clean on the situation fairly quickly. Far be it from me to correct spelling either, but that would be Libya. LouieB

Far be it from me to answer for someone else, but it isn't really that these folks (and maybe not the libertarians here who seem to be the bulk of the non-left of center folks) want, they want less government oversight. People need to be free from government regulation (whatever that means) which to those of us on the leftish of the continuum (which really includes those petty squarely in the center anymore) includes the right to get sick and die, be homeless, be destitute, be unemployed, allow all the exploitation of the environment and working people anyone wants. To those on the right t

That's the real John Lennon you guys are talking about, not the member of the Beatles who was a big star. I am sure there are people here to also don't care that the guy was a peacenik and fairly far to the left, since all those people care about was his music, not his beliefs. LouieB

Okay well this is a softball if ever there were one. Of course everyone loves John Lennon. Everyone wants peace. But the President of the United States isn't going to disband the US military, he (or eventually she) is also the commander in chief. So there will be a US military for many years to come. But once again equating both Barack and Mitt as having the same attitude towards the military is riduculous. Obama has somewhat reduced the military budget (okay not enough for most of us, admittedly) and finally end the Iraq war and the endless one in Afganistan, but Romney has promised to

That's it exactly. Before I noticed you posting this I figured I was being attacked by one more right wing Wilco fan (still to me a contradiction in terms...) I continue to say that it is time for the whole country to figure out its priorities, but things are shaping up to be even worse for whomever wins beit Barack or Mitt. If we scaled back the military, including all the wars overseas, alot of our bases, the war on drugs, the war on war on war and began a long hard look on what we really need the government to do (and again I work for the government I see what could be scaled back), taxed

This is my third election on viachicago. I wanted to stop talking about this shit after the first one. The government subsidy to PBS is a pittance, a total drop in the bucket of federal expenditures. Sure we can drop all subsidies to "educational TV", the arts. and other such French or gay stuff as this, but how much poorer we will all be. Meanwhile subsidies to things such as big oil and big agriculture, that stuff goes on unscathed through all administrations because those folks hold sway. Meanwhile the military can always cry poor no matter how much money they have. The miitary su

NOt at all. I didn't see it. Now that it is free I will give it a look. My point was that the regular shows these guys do is largely scripted (though obviously not entirely) so trying to keep up an unscripted debate for 90 minutes might have been a stretch even for these seasoned professionals. LouieB

Wow, a story about someone defrauding the government? Shocking!! What next someone defrauding individuals? Never happens. How about corporations defrauding the government or individuals? That apparently never happens either. The other night Rand Paul was on the Daily Show (I think) talking about his book about too much government regulation and Stewart made the point that clearly the government does dumb stuff, but it could be just as easy to write a book about how government actually helps people. Any way you want to cut an issue, you can find shit to either bolster or degrade that issue

I had the same thought, but frankly I just think Barack is tired. While all Mitt had to do was prepare for this debate, Obama still has to be President of the United States and campaign. Meanwhile Romney can keep flipping and flopping all over the place because at this stage he is behind and has nothing left to lose. LouieB

Romeny looked like he wanted to be president so badly he was ready to burst (and say about anything he could to get there) and Obama looked like he was already President and a bit tired. It all sounded a bit too much like stump speeches to me. No game changers that's for sure. LouieB

It turned into an urban myth I guess. LouieB

You mean "It's all over now Baby Blue"? Not much of a singalong. LouieB