The greatest lost track of all time

The Late Greats' Turpentine

You can't hear it on the radio

Can't hear it anywhere you go

The best band will never get signed

The Kay-Settes starring Butchers Blind

So good you won't ever know

They never even played a show

Can't hear them on the radio

The greatest singer in rock 'n' roll

Would have to be Romeo

His vocal cords are made of gold

He just looks a little too old

The best songs will never get sung

The best life never leaves your lungs

So good you won't ever know

You'll never hear it on the radio

Can't hear it on the radio

Because a Brazilian and pierced head would make her like everyone else who works @ Starbucks.

I watched 'Inherit the Wind' last night. No matter what mob you're a part of you're still a part of some mob. Maybe your goals are noble and pure, to you. But everyone else thinks you're an angry bigoted cracker and a fool. Any mob is like that - even Salon is like that. An angry self righteous mob.

Because I am 100% sure that I will never be confronted with that particular snub. I will be packed in the back like a train to Sobibor. I will be unable to move let alone copulate. So all I can say is that if your libido's that cranked and you can afford a private suite on Air Mormon, then charter your own plane.

A botnet or one of his flesh-n-blood zomboids. Hard to tell the soulessness of one from the other.

Not a fan of The Clash, never was. But it was a little bit funny when Joe was kicked out for not being appropriately insanely radically political, enough. It's pop music, people. Get a damn grip.

Should just

Shut

The

Fuck

Up

Already

Please, shut the fuck up, Curt.

No, but the two weeks of angry blogging will make interesting reading here at Salon.

Oh wait this is about politics of music. Yes I see.

30 mill/year? 50 mill? C'mon Alex you're a great player but you're not 4 of the greatest players.

As it has become far more earnest and devoted to The Cause. I feel like I stumbled on a Drum Circle of Communist Vegetarians for Solar Power. All humorless all angry all 1 beeeelion percent devoted to their own self seriousness.

With or without an AG. And Congress continues to just hunker down and wait for Jan 2009. We should accept that we essentially have no government, no real functioning on until then and beyond. Worrying about Mukasey is a no-op.

Aren't there like 4 or 5 top Admin spots that are empty right now? And isn't there no effort to fill them (e.g. Veteran Affairs?)

Trying to expedite the process to get a security clearance, all I can say is, let it all collapse and burn. Political cronyism is only part of the problem. They other part is that its a closed loop. You can't entry entry to the system unless you're already in it. You can't get anyone to listen to you unless you're in a position to have nothing at all say.

Take clearances for instance. Depending on what is required they can take 6 to 18 months. Now no one is going to hire you to keep you on the bench that long. So what happens is that there's a community of people with clearances who move from job to job to job. The amount of work always grows and the population of people qualified to do it stays the same. So screw it, contracting is contracting. They'll pay just as much to secure bank software as they do to protect missile launch codes. Screw the launch codes. If it turns out that the 7 guys on the planet qualified to do that job all retire, then I guess that's someone else's problem to solve.

Complaining about it won't fix anything because unless you're inside that inner loop no one has a 'process' to pay attention to your claim. It's discounted out of hand.

Recently a nuclear sub commander was dismissed because he had intentionally skipped routine safety checks for a long time and then lied about it to cover it up. Do you think no one on the sub knew this? Everyone knew it. 10 other people are already implicated. But tell someone? Who's crazy enough to do that? No better we should run the risk of losing a billion dollar nuclear powered weapons platform.

Screw government work. It's just not worth the headache.

Would you tear up the Constitution to avoid a pandemic? Would you burn the bill of rights to make the subways 5% safer? See that's the bottom line. All of this twaddle about ticking bombs is just that - noise. Would you torture someone you thought had adulterated vaccinations, for money? Why not someone who stole the copper from a railway switch that might cause a train wreck?

It's a matter of what's worth it. I for one am completely comfortable with the outside probability of some terrorist attack if it means that we don't all have to live in a modern day version of an East German police state Gulag. Just like I am fine with ignoring pleas for flu vaccinations (which don't work more than 50% either) and a whole host of collective dangers that keep the soccermommies medicated at night.

Show me something concrete- show me cause and effect- show me evidence then I'll take torture seriously. Show the names of the 4 million lives you saved by avoiding that WMD attack or whatever. Then I'll consider it, I won't promise that I'll accept it but I'll at least listen to what you have to say.

Because it's simply not worth it otherwise. If someone told you could buy a car that's impossible to crash and no matter what, you could never get hurt - what would it be worth to you? $200,000? A million dollars? 10 million? How much?