"Scrotum suckers" would imply a level of utilitarian usefulness that the tea baggers are undeserving of.

I've been a professional musician since 1964. I've made the majority of my living from it since then. I recorded in a 2 track studio and put out vinyl in the mid 60s. The last CD I was on, recorded last December, was entirely digitally recorded and reproduced. It cost about as much as one day's studio time in the mid 60s to record all 18 tracks. We also had 32 tracks to play with.

We sell about two thousand CDs a year, predominantly from the bandstand at gigs. It's a perpetual motion machine; completely self financed.

We're no big deal... just another string band from Oregon, but we make out ok. There are thousands upon thousands of bands just like us, playing all kinds of music. Portland, Oregon probably has more guitar players than bicycles (although it would be close and overlapping, of course).

I don't buy for a minute that lowering the barriers to recording has affected the quality of the music, overall. You can't compare the qualitative hierarchy of various eras with anything approaching objectivity and still maintain any honesty. It will always be subjective. And that's great. If appreciating music was an entirely objective exercise, you may as well sing a balance sheet.

Yeah... I know it's off topic, but many people knew full well that the world was round and that a vast continent existed to the west before Columbus set sail. Just as many people today know that "right to life" means anything BUT what that name implies.

maybe you should register another name before trying to pretend to be a mean spirited "liberal"...

as it is EVERYONE here knows exactly what sort of a far right crank you are. You ain't foolin' nobody.

seriously....

That's what the "sophisticated elites" in "the outside" call what this "analysis" consists of. The less polite term being "bullshit"... or perhaps mooseshit, in this case.

Two selected sentences:

We don’t hear many real-life fairy-tales of American female success, which makes the few that exist intrinsically compelling.

Oh? Read much? Ever been to a library, strolled a local Barnes and Noble, or perused the bulk of what's on TV? What planet have you been on for the last, oh... four or decades?

And... execrably...

If this possibility can’t be countenanced, then government for the people by the people is an abstract idea we’ve grown too cynical to practice. Sarah Palin endures not because she’s brilliant, smooth or philosophically correct, but because hope in democracy endures, too.

good lord! Spare me the flag waving huzzahs for Fascist mob rule!

in this whole conundrum would be the courts being TRULY neutral in awarding primary custody. If men were treated equitably in regards to custody of the children, then the questions about child support would go from being a cudgel to an equitably shared responsibility of both parents.

I say this as from experience as a non custodial divorced father who remarried a woman who already had a son who I raised as my own after his biological dad (not "father" - that's me!) and with whom I subsequently had another child. So I've seen this situation from a lot of different perspectives.

The lengths that closeted and not-so-closeted ACTUAL racists go to try to project their ugliness on to everyone else.

So, let me get this straight... if you're white, and you voted FOR Obama, then that, and that alone is the MOST obvious indication of ... ta da.. "liberal racism"...

yeah...

It didn't make much sense to me, either....

p'tooi

Is playing polka music when the score calls for a waltz... and he missed the cue for his solo... AGAIN....

Don't worry on the beat... it'll come around again. Maybe you can get it right next time. In the meantime: practice! practice! practice!

Maybe you'll even be allowed to play with the band

SOMEDAY

need to unionize NOW. That'd be a good last laugh at Murdoch and Ailes.

Glen Beck obviously thinks he's fit for running the country - a failed, morning AM radio shock jock? And Lou Dobbs? And Sarah Palin?

Gad! All three of these cranks would be in mental institutions if Reagan hadn't defunded them. Maybe that's why he's so revered in certain circles - he kept the Republican "leadership" out of the looney bins where they belong.

For Joltin' Joe, R-Himself to shed his mortal coil?

As long as we're prayin'.....

Personally I don't care if he's a Jew or a ham sandwich. Distinctions such as that are meaningless. He's ONLY in it for HIMSELF. Period.

that males get to dominate society for so long.

It has NOTHING to do with being larger, more aggressive, an "extra" chromosome, more testosterone, more muscle... none of that.

It's all because you women just can't resist cutting each other down. I find this sort of thing both fascinating and barbaric. At least guys just fight it out physically and get it over with. Most men wouldn't give a moment's thought to whether a picture of another man's hips had been slimmed digitally.

Honestly.... unite women.... stop being your own worst enemies. You'll never take over, or achieve the equality you rightfully should have if you don't stop beating each other up over meaningless bullshit.

That's just one 60 year old guy's observation upon reading this extremely weird stuff that is posted all too often in here.

uh... my understanding of tea bagging would seem to require the presence of at least one male. Maybe that's why Gramps McCain is trying to honey up to Bible Spice?

Gad!

... Desolation Row?

This is sure amusing from the cheap seats.