Ghost of Electricity

There are usually about 6 pedals on my board, most of them are on yours. (swollen pickle, FD2, TU, TR, Phase 90 (not 100), CC)  so i know you make some good choices.  however, i have never had the opportunity to try a prunes 'n custard.  can i borrow it sometime?

I don't accept that. If you've taken up smoking since like 1970, there is no way you could not be aware of the risks. Tobacco companies make it easier for you to get hooked, sure, but to say they made you smoke is an irresponsible and erroneous abrogation of personal responsibility.

i said nothing of the sort.  Anyway, at least tobacco users are (primarily) killing themselves. Not the case with guns.

No they don't.

 

I'd like to see the stats on gun crimes committed by NRA members. I suspect that about 99% of gun crimes are committed by people who are not NRA members.

I didn't say that they committed any gun crimes, and I wouldn't presume to make up statistics.  I said that, from a public health point of view, The NRA lobbies against the common good.  They lobby in support of machines which are designed to, and do, take human lives.

are you worried about signal loss?

Is your pedal board finished?  What pedals will you or have you put on it?  Did/will you keep it in a flea-market purchased suitcase like I do with my homemade pedalboard?  is this getting off topic ?  

edit to add: where did the quote box go?

Why isn't Atticus answering our questions?

But tobacco companies make tobacco products.  The NRA doesn't make guns.

Oh, but their big donors do, no?

Absolutely.  But that doesn't mean that the little league team sponsored by Big Tobacco causes lung cancer.

Big Tobacco's Li'l Sluggers

neither do Phillip Morriss or RJ Reynolds give their money directly to politicians.  They filter it through "third party" lobbyist groups.  The difference is that public focus on one issue is on the lobby group and in the other on the donors to the lobby group. 

Not even remotely similar.

very similar actually.  Viewed as a public health issue, the tobacco companies lobby (or at least lobbied) against the common good in the same way that the NRA lobbies against the common good.

Mmm. Maybe. One could blame the NRA for retarding the progress of background checks, which maybe might have kept this obvious cra-zor from getting a gun, but probably not. America's love of guns and societal delight in killing goes far beyond and dates to way before there was even an NRA, though.

So does the use of tobacco.  yet we learned to hold the big tobacco companies responsible for killing us. 

why are you doing this? Are you bored?

that's one nasty pussy.

it's a principal thing.  you can't say that the tobacco companies are to blame for any particular case of lung cancer, but when you look across the board it is obviously responsible for some of them.  similar situation with every gun death in america.   

not angry enough.

true, but time may have had a mellowing effect.  is the cat a clue?

3 more points for the NRA:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23590054

and who's the other one?

Zoinks! 2.5 oz in 2 weeks? It would take me 2 years to smoke all that!

you could invite me over, i'd help.  then it would only take one year.

ok, i'm lost.  is speed racer radiant which face or don draper?  (i never thought i would utter that question)

thenks fer te speling lessun

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23478101

Car's Can't Escape is not a very good live Wilco song.

If I told you what you can do with your negativity I'd be banned.  So I'll wish you a nice weekend instead.  

I know it's already been said, but I don't care:  Cars Can't Escape! Wow!

and it's gone...

call me crazy, but i consider You never know as one of their best tunes!. traveling wilburys revisited!

you're crazy.

i think there are several reasons these songs aren't being played.  one is that there's generally a trend to shelve material from the record previous to last. two, they are aware that many people regard it as their weakest record.  three, it's real title is Wilco (The Phone In) .

any album news for those of us who have no hope of seeing any live shows?