I complain about this to the trainers regularly. It's especially bad in areobics classes where the instructors favor the Britney-Aguilera-Madonna-Disco mix. I avoid those instructors like the plague now. High level aerobics are hard enough without feeling like the body is fighting with the music. Call me sensitive.

On the other hand, some instructors routinely pick excellent music and their classes are a pleasure. There are just too few of them.

And while the research my be technically correct that genre doesn't matter, i *do* believe that good workout music has a certain charactersitic that can be quantified, with the right fingerprint, descriptors and PCA program.

Here are my choices for good workout music that I have on my ipod:

Jump in the Line (Baseketball vrsion) - Aerobics

Seven Nation Army (White Stripes) - Tread, elliptical, spin

The Way - Aerobics

Further on Down the Road (Eric Clapton) -Tread, elliptical, Spin

Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum) - Tread, elliptical, spin

I Feel Like a Woman (Shania Twain)- Aerobics

Volcano (Jimmy Buffet)- abs

Baby, You Can Drive My Car (Beatles) - Toning, abs

Legs (ZZ Top)- tread, elliptical, spin

Jessica (Allman Brothers)- tread, elliptical, spin

Mas Qui Nada (Brazil 66)- tread, elliptical, spin

Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones) - Anything aerobic

Short Skirt, Long Jacket (Cake) - toning, abs

Lake Charles (Lucinda Williams) - cool down

After 45 minutes of these tunes, you will feel refreshed and energized as opposed to 45 minutes of the electronica pop princesses who will make you feel like they've "Hit you baby one more time."

Lamert at Correntewire posted a piece on Friday about Barack Obama touting the bi-partisanship line. Oddly enough, the agent of change seems to have no problem with High Broderism. And weren't Obama and Lieberman friendly at one time?

I always wondered how it was that a first term senator with few accomplishments could get as far as he did without substantial backing. I know he's picked up a lot of individual donors but his seed money had to come from somewhere. Was it Wall Street? How well does he know Bloomberg? Would that kind of introduction get him the funds he needed?

And what does it say about Hillary Clinton? Is *she* the actual anti-establishment candidate? From what I have heard, Bloomberg isn't troubled by an Obama win in Iowa. But Edwards and Clinton would make him jump in. Now, why would he be afraid of Edwards? He doesn't have an organization outside of the first couple of states. But Clinton could win because she's got the bucks. But if Bloomberg is establishment High Broderism, does that mean that Clinton is *not*?

If this wasn't so insulting it would stand out as being one of the most clueless pieces of analysis of the mind of the Clintonista. The reason why we will not come back as we've done every other year is because we have a message to sent to the DNC: don't screw with the process, give us a totally unqualified candidate and diss the stronger candidate who is *also* having a historic campaign. For it you do, you will have to re-earn those 18 million votes in November.

And we're not falling for the reproductive rights shtick. Not working this year. There are already 5 justices on the SCOTUS who are perfectly able to overturn Roe. We won't be scared into voting for Obama. We're not stupid. We see the strings that were pulled for him to our detriment. This primary season has been unlike any other and for that reason alone, Shapiro's prediction is going to be off. He's going to have to construct a new model after this year. This time, he should throw in 18 million disenfrachised working class, women, latinos, gays and elderly. If the DNC isn't going to represent us before the election, they sure as hell won't do it afterwards. Therefore, it deserves to fail and purged of the elecments who have taken it over. We will consider the next 4 years of divided government our rebuilding years.

If I were Walter, I'd eat those words before they come back to haunt him in November.

It was YearlyKos06 and Schaller was proposing that the Dems just write off the south. More than a few of us in the audience thought he was nuts. Mudcat Saunders actually said as much, if I recall correctly. Much vociferous shouting ensued with Schaller looking down his snooty little nose at Saunders, referring to his charts and graphs and no doubt thinking that Saunders' think southern accent was an artifact of his bigoted southern upbringing.

But frankly, I don't think the south or the west will determine this election. Women will.

Not that Schaller would have noticed.

BTW, given that we already know Schaller's rather unambiguous opinion of where the swing states will be, isn't this article little more than propaganda?

Barack Obama is pandering tot he Blue Dogs. That's why so many of his policy initiatives resemble the Republican Lite version of healthcare reform, tax policy, ending the Iraq War, FISA, etc. Look at who is backing him. He scnhmoozed his way to the top by courting Blue Dogs. But many Obama supporters are too wrapped up in their infatuation and lust for Change! that they can't see it.

PUMAs are pushing back because the direction the Democratic party is heading is one that is away from its core principles and more accomodating towards the affluent and the conservative.

For this reason, we can NEVER vote for Obama. And if the party persists in pursuing its course, we will force it to its knees.