Good Old Neon

If I were there right now, I'd knock those books out of your hands right before I punched you in your glasses.

Who is this heretofore unknown race of "pink men", and who, exactly is their leader? In all seriousness, though I agree in principle (sort of), to be fair, not to mention accurate, "pink men" should replaced with simply "men" or "males" - as the males of most species tend towards more violent behavior.

From Pitchfork: Arcade Fire's Win Butler Disses Hillary, Backs Obama http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/48...ary-backs-obama The article mentions our very own Mr. Tweedy as well.

Ummmm

Phosphorescent - Pride As a fan of their prior release, Aw Come Aw Wry, I picked this up upon release, and, for whatever reason, it did not take. However, I came back to it recently and for the life of me cannot figure why I was not immediately smitten, as I am now. A no brainer for fans of Will Oldham (and his many iterations), Neutral Milk Hotel, Band of Horses (mellower moments) and anyone else who enjoys blissfully melancholic folk. Favorite track - Wolves Favorite lyric -

Though I

No, I think you have me confused with Alan Keyes.

Interesting coming from someone who believes we are all decedents of Adam & Eve

For those interested, what follows is a link to a review of the novel, culled from Pop Matters. It does contain minor spoilers for both the film and novel. Enjoy. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/books/reviews...ormac-mccarthy/

Fair enough, and I respect that, but I am not attempting to engage you in a tit-for-tat over ideas, but real documented cases and situations in which international laws were broken, Geneva conventions ignored. It matters not what you or I think, what matters is what actually happened - and there are many documented cases of torture carried out at the behest of this Administration, Abu Ghraib for example. Whether Bush made tough choices that paid off is, for the most part, subjective. What is not open to subjective debate, is the fact that torture did occur. With that said, the essay I li

If you are truly interested in educating yourself with regards to our current Administrations misuse of power and the many ways in which they have run afoul of the Geneva conventions, international law, and our own Military

Here's an interesting little read for starters: The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal by Andrew Sullivan Almost all of the time, the Washington I know and live in is utterly unrelated to the Washington you see in the movies. The government is far more incompetent and amateur than the masterminds of Hollywood darkness. There are no rogue CIA agents engaging in illegal black ops and destroying evidence to protect their political bosses. The kinds of scenario cooked up in Matt Damon

Though I feel as though I have just fallen victim to an old fashioned bait and switch, this is tragic none the less - he was one hell of a human.

Aw, how cute - you made a funny.

No, but couple those statements with what we have witnessed throughout his tenure as president and it starts to sound less ridiculous - secret prisons, extraditions, breaking international and domestic law, torture, illegal wire tapping, phony wars, being a war criminal and all - little things like that.

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas. (Governing Magazine 7/98) -- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?" "I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked. -- CNN.com, December 18, 2000 "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [bush] said. -- Business Week, July 30, 2001

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I often wonder how many

Bingo! and double Bingo!!!

As were many of our decendents

(I won't quote the entire post.) The discussion could also incorporate how, we, the tax payer, are continually asked to bale out so and so industry because they, the airlines for example, mismanaged their business. Or, how, using tax dollars, we pay out huge subsidies to agribusiness, etc etc etc.... The discussion could also incorporate how, we, the tax payer, are continually asked to bale out so and so industry because they, the airlines for example, mismanaged their business. Or, how, using tax dollars, we pay out huge subsidies to agribusiness, etc etc etc... Peter Singer (I know, Si

Or, based upon the look on Obama

If our next president is to be a republican, well, we could certainly do a lot worse than John McCain. As mentioned by Reni and others, he has compromised himself a bit as of late, and for that I am greatly disappointed, however, as a person, he has proven himself as a pretty upstanding guy in world in which that sort of character is often hard to come by. Great post Bjorn. What follows is an excerpt from an essay written by David Foster Wallace (I know, again with the Wallace you say) entitled Up, Simba. It appeared in Rolling Stone as part of their coverage of the 2000 elections. Wall

The Hitler analogies are overstating it a bit, but, I often wonder what sort of leaders Bush and Cheney would have become if they took the helm of a less democratic country, one in which the executive branch