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The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding: Richard Strauss - Tod und Verklärung

The candidate who is aware of the intarwebs can't figure out a cell phone : ... Someone hummed a ditty into the phone. More minutes pass...

The other day I pointed you to Pam's place , noting that the people of Arizona don't want to define marriage as only between a man a...

The geezers hadn't quite got it yet in '59. I'm a geezer now and I still don't get it other than I know that, then as now, t...

A very pretty treatment of this old song. 'Old' meaning I remember it from my youth. James Taylor & The Dixie Chicks

A little light weekend reading on Scalia at The Existentialist Cowboy : Scalia's 'war on logic' is even older. In Bush v Gore, t...

Off to Home Depot before the masses get there. The next chapter of Birthright is up at The Practical Press .

Pardon the light blogging today, but I was busy over at Fixer & Gordon . Bustedknuckles has a real, er, potboiler up at F&G as wel...

Dana Milbank Throughout the Bush presidency, he toiled in secrecy deep within the White House, a mysterious and feared presence who never st...

We piss the Chinese off : ... Now, if the Rude Pundit remembers his recent history (although, truth be told, these days, shit that happened ...

On vacation? Seems McCain doesn't like to work weekends. I wonder if he's gonna take 18 months of vacation time like the Chimp did...

Athenae : ... But this is exactly why most people who've been relatively awake for the past eight years hear "bipartisanship" ...

SPR "After listening for just two seconds, your foot starts stomping in anger and outrage. From the invasion of Iraq and fake WMDs, tor...

Think Progress Bolton: Israel Will Attack Iran After U.S. Election But Before Inauguration, Arab States Will Be ‘Delighted’. [...] Adopting ...

You can tell a lot about a person by his taste in music. Go see what's on Obama's iPod . No word at this time on what's on McCai...

All you Emmylou Harris fans go see her appearance last night on Charlie Rose .

A coupla months back I posted about the proposed George W. Bush Sewage Plant in Frisco. Here's a follow-up from WaPo via Blue Oregon :...

From Pam . Seems the folks in Arizona don't believe in marginalizing a group of American citizens because a buncha Jesus freaks think ...

Type of good Blue Dog and that's this one : Princess Shayna For the rest of 'em; either you're a Democrat or you're not . ...

Avedon Carol : ... Because there is absolutely nothing a Republican can do, no matter how dishonest, incompetent, egregious, or downright ev...