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"Good day, gentlemen. This is a prerecorded briefing made prior to your departure and which for security reasons of the highest importance has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter's space and the entire crew is revived it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet below the lunar surface near the crater Tycho. Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four-million-year-old black monolith has remained completely iner

BEASTSBeasts in their major freedom Slumber in peace tonight. The gull on his ledge Dreams in the guts of himself the moon-plucked waves below, And the sunfish leans on a stone, slept By the lyric water, In which the spotless feet Of deer make dulcet splashes, and to which The ripped mouse, safe in the owl’s talon, cries Concordance. Here there is no such harm And no such darkness As the selfsame moon observes Where, warped in window-glass, it sponsors now The werewolf’s painful change. Turning his head away On the sweaty bolster, he tries to remember The mood of manhood, But lies at las

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I mean, it says right there on the top: "We, the people." It does not say, "Me, the person and a bunch of other fuckers I don't care about, because I mistakenly think I succeed in a vacuum and that the welfare of others has no impact on mine."

Hopefully, things like this will help put all that paranoid Libertarian "Don't Tread On Me" bullshit in its proper perspective. 45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance Story HighlightsStudy calculated that the uninsured have a 40 percent higher risk of deathAn expecting father worried about ER cost and died from ruptured appendixPrevious research also shows uninsured are more at risk than insuredBy Madison Park CNN(CNN)-- A freelance cameraman's appendix ruptured and by the time he was admitted to surgery, it was too late. A self-employed mother of two is found dead in b

Or maybe look for a record of car-alarm sounds run through a Kitchen-Aid mixer.

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!

What, Abacab was not a good album?

I don't, but I thought it was hilarious when he got into it with Spike Lee at the Garden.

A U.S. congressman told me today that he thinks health care might get wrapped up next month. Public option is on the bubble.

I think when someone pokes you, that means they want to POKE you, or you them, depending.

Rich people!

Farrar, James, Poughkeepsie's own Anders Parker and Johnson - that's a pretty formidable foursome. They are certainly capable of matching Billy Bragg and Wilco and might even outshine them a little bit. I gotta check out this Gob Iron.

During the opening days of the Obama administration, I slept with a black girl. If that's what happens to white people in Obama's America, then I am all for it.

The thing I find interesting (and delusional) about the tea party people is that they think there once was an American Eden where perfect democracy flourished and money didn't influence things. Grow the fuck up. The fix has ALWAYS been in, from the time the first dudes set foot in Virginia. Jesus, why do you all fucking think they came here in the first place? TO MAKE MONEY. What was the American Revolution really about? MONEY. This place was built by slaves on land stolen from the Indians. Maybe someday, we will be able to have a system where the moneyed interests don't call all the shots. I

Is it wrong to be a little surprised that Farrar is treading a trail already trodden by Tweedy?

Must have something to do with kcul.

Sadly, Del Potro is going to have to stick that thing up his ass to avoid paying the steep Argentinian trophy import duty.

It is ALAC.

"It's the politics of contraband, the smuggler's bloooooos."

Bad Boy. Dude I knew in college played an alternate version with the lyric "Every dime he gets, it's off to the pot salesman."

Yes - the stereo separation is pretty vicious.

Having not heard the mono Beatles much previously, I'm not qualified to pass judgment on the mono remasters. They sound pretty good, though, as long as they go through speakers and not headphones. (I agree with the gentleman from Massachusetts on that point.) I can say that Abbey Road and Let It Be, to my ears, sound much improved. (I can clearly make out what John is singing on "Maggie Mae," for instance.) I am going to get the Past Masters this weekend, so I will let you know what I think about them. The other thing I will say is that except for a steel-drum-band version of Joy Division's "T

I think that Haring dude came back from the dead to do his hair.