Letters to the Editor
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@ Kitt
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][to bebop-o]: I hope your computer was able to click on that link and play it for you. It would be a shame if you didn't get to hear it.
Just in case, I'll at least describe what you missed. A guy named Truman Price is playing a fiddle. He isn't famous. I found him on youtube because I like that kind of old-time music and I play harmonica and clawhammer banjo myself.
Dulcimer and Hardingfele here.
He's quite good. He's playing St. Anne's Reel. He plays his fiddle at about chest level. Which is unusual. Most fiddlers play it up against the chin. He's wearing blue jeans and a light colored, long sleeved shirt, a floppy hat, a full beard, which happens to be white.
Old-timeys tend to play it down like that. You won't find the chin-rests (at least the ones underneath) on an old-timer's fiddle.
Spectator to old-time fiddler: "Say, can you read sheet music?"
Old-timer: "Naw, not as much as affects mah fiddlin'...."
About a third of the way through the tune he begins to do a jig. He's standing in a meadow that is filled with white and purple wild flowers.
Hmmm. Will have to go back and click on the link.....
Check out the Freighthoppers, folks. I've seen 'em live after the stage lights have gone out, round the campfire, and just playin' and playin' and playin'.... They really love their music. Puts them in the zone.
"Gid is my co-pilot", as they say:
http://www.unlockaustin.com/Band/185893
Cheers,
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@ Kitt
[Read the article: Preordering week for "A Tragic Legacy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Say, didn't see the jig there. Did you mean dance, perchance? It was all 4/4 time, jigs are 6/8, 9/8 or 12/8....
But it was nice.
Another BTW: In India, the violin players sit, put the base if the fiddle in their lap (mini-cello style) and play it upright.
Cheers,
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Richard and Karl, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-.....
[Read the article: Richard Cohen's brilliant (and unintentional) exposé of our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here][Glenn, from the post]: And particularly the most revered and highest-ranking among them should never be punished, let alone imprisoned (said with whispered disgust), for their "dark politics" -- whether that comes in the form of illegal eavesdropping, illegal torture, or illegal obstruction of justice.
Yep, the Stalinist "destroy your political enemies by all means possible" tactics of Rove and company should not be looked at too deeply. The "slash and burn", "commandeer the gummint for the party", "install party hacks and yes-men wherever we can" regime should be given a nod and a wink, hell, it's just 'politics as usual'.
Not to mention their abuses (if not outright violation) of the rule of law itself in the process.
On another note, this 'red herring' of "Armitage was the leaker, Libby did nothing wrong" needs to have a wooden stake driven through its heart; just because someone else did the same (or a similar) thing doesn't mean that what you did is not a crime. If Libby wanted to raise this as a legal defence, he should have shown in court not the tu quoque 'well, everyone else was doing it', but rather that Armitage had made Plame no longer a protected identity by virtue of public disclosure before Libby started blabbing this stuff to reporters. He didn't, because it simply was not true. Cohen needs to 'put down the RNC "talking points" and walk away slowly....'
Cheers,
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@ mrkcohen
[Read the article: Richard Cohen's brilliant (and unintentional) exposé of our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Atrios has not just his wanker of the day, not just his wanker of the month, but he finally has his wanker for the ages. The wanker to end all wankers.
Actually, I think that Richard Cohen was already the Barry Bonds of wankerdom, close to the all-time record for wankery titles from Atrios.
Hasn't slowed down Wanker Cohen in the least, IC....
Cheers,
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@ jeremys
[Read the article: Richard Cohen's brilliant (and unintentional) exposé of our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Greenwald,
While I ordinarily find your writing to be insightful, I believe you are off-base in your criticism of Mr. Cohen today. Clearly, in Mr. Cohen's article, when discussing the "urging of the liberal press (especially the New York Times)" he was referring to Joe Wilson's July 6, 2003 "What I Didn't Find In Africa" op-ed. Had Mr. Wilson not pursued his personal matters so agressively, Mr. Libby's entire ordeal would have been easily avoided.
I do not understand how you missed this so obvious point.
Clue for eedjits like Jeremy: We haven't perfected time ravel yet. Thus it would be impossible for Wilson (with the complicity of the N.Y. Times) to be "urging" prosecution of Libby for outing his wife in an editorial written and published before Libby decided to out Plame in response to this editorial.
Or, perhaps, are you suggesting that Wilson should have known that the sleazebuckets in the maladministration were going to do this, and thus all Wilson had to do was "STFU" and keep a low profile and no one would get hurt (including Libby)? Interesting thesis, if that's what you had in mind....
Cheers,