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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
TimLehnerer
Published Letters: 35 Editor's Choice: 1
Hot damn, I love to listen to his stuff. Already got this track, but I'll be buying the compilation, of course. Thanks for exponentially increasing Meek's audience, guys. And for listeners who want the most comprehensive greatest-hits of The RGM Sound, consider picking up the two-disc "The Alchemist of Pop". It's the most accessible Meek compilation I've seen, and Amazon usually has cheap used copies sold off by people who didn't get it.
How many wrongs make a right again? Is it two? Three? Nine? Twenty-eight? I forgot, but you probably know.
...If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about. There's no way that an innocent man could get sent to jail on trumped-up charges with a Republican in power. Certainly you will be vindicated in full if you didn't do anything wrong.
Excellent news. Tomorrow will be sweeter for Jerry Falwell's absence, and every day thereafter.
...I hope I'm the first one to mention this, but I'm probably not. The novelty group Big Daddy did a song-for-song cover version of the Sergeant Pepper album 15 years ago; their gimmick is that they covered each song in the style of a different 1950s artist ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as Jerry Lee Lewis; "Within You Without You" as beat poetry; "Lovely Rita" by the young Elvis, etc.) and it's an astonishing reinterpretation. You get to see where the Beatles were coming from based on who their influences were. It's been out of print forever, but if you can scare up a used copy it's WELL worth listening to. I like the Beatles version, but I liked it more after listening to the Big Daddy one (which sounded so faithful to the 50s that a friend of mine thought their cover of "A Day in the Life" was actually a Buddy Holly song he'd never heard).
But really, here's the thing: If I buy an American car, I don't save any American jobs. Maybe the CEO's, maybe not. If I buy a Nissan, I can get one that was built in this country, rather than Mexico or China.
...it's been going on for at least four and a half decades. Do an Ebay search for "Telstar Stamp" and you'll find impoverished countries like Somalia that put a communications satellite on their postage so they could sell it to technology-worshipping Americans back in 1962.
Nice to see somebody at the U of M noticed it eventually, though.
"He says evolutionary biology has forced modern theologians to clarify their thinking by rejecting outdated arguments about God as an intrusive designer."
So, uh, when are they going to get around to doing that? Everything I see that's anti-science can be boiled down to "God Did It, Now Stop Asking".
Of COURSE they're not zombie movies. They're movies about total societal upheaval by the reduction of thinking humans into mindless hordes that provide a vehicle for the filmmakers' sociopolitical views. And if there's one thing the zombie genre was NEVER known for--especially the movies done by George Romero--it's the use of social catastrophe to show the filmmakers' views of society. Mister Marker's completely right, of course, even when he can't get the names of the filmmakers correct.
Don't you spend most of the game looking at the back of the character's head in the GTA series because of the 'camera' placement? How would it matter if you had the bestest, most realistic looking face EVER if you're looking at the back of the character's head for the entire game?
...of people stealing nuclear warheads on City of Villains? They could be used against targets in Paragon City or lead to renewed hostilities against the Rikti! Truly, we have to spy on people in the real world to prevent video game WMDs from being used.
I don't think I've ever heard a fundamentalist theist ever state that the world is getting better. It's always that the world is in total and imminent danger, and only doing what they want will stave off Armageddon.
Michigan went for Mitt Romney because his dad used to be governor back when people had jobs. The state went for Senator Clinton 55-40 because she was the only one on the ballot. Now people want a do-over for some unguessable reason.
Michigan, on a national political level, is completely irrelevant. We have nothing to offer either party machine and not enough economic or political clout to force others to do anything to benefit the state.
Nice job, everyone.
The web site for EXPELLED says that each generation has its rebel. I guess they mean Ben Stein, but how many sixty-three-year-old former game show hosts are the youth of today looking up to as a rebel? Is this some trend of which I was unaware?
Well, the state went for Mitt Romney and Senator Clinton won almost 60 percent of the votes when she was the only Democrat on the ballot. We're pretty Michirrelevant here as far as I can see.
You can beg an invisible superhero who lives in outer space all you want, but that won't prevent or cure polio or smallpox. Science is better for the human race than religion, and demonstrably so, because it eradicated these diseases.
Batman's just like Dubya; both of them did exactly what a terrorist mastermind wanted them to do in order to increase the terrorist's power base and influence. And at least in the Wall Street Journal, they're both heroes for doing it.
McCain takes Romney as a running mate; Michigan votes red rather than blue (with some assistance from GOP operatives "suppressing the Detroit vote").
Obama absolutely shellacks McCain in the general election.
Michigan loses another chance to have a president that might care about their economic situation.
Michirrelevance continues.
http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/2003/023.shtml
Go here for an MP3 of a Utica Club promotional single--something that was apparently trying to convince people that their awful beer was actually good beer.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
