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Rhonda Vincent is a big star and one of my favorites. She's been playing Bluegrass music professionally for over thirty years. Another ...

In my never-ending quest to steal the very latest videos for you, this is from MerleFest 2009 just last week. More here . Emmylou Harris - ...

One of my favorite songs, the title of which is also what the Dead End Quarter calls the rest of us. Heh. Pretty good slide show of stuff we...

Go see this photo gallery at the LATimes . Violet Cowden flew 19 different types of "pursuit planes" during World War II, includi...

Bob Herbert in an NYT op-ed. Worth a read. "The incredibly clueless stewards of the incredibly shrinking Republican Party would do we...

It's over the mountaind and through the woods to Costco we will go today. Here's a pic of the torturous drive along the east shore o...

Goes?! It done been fer a while. Mark Morford does a little catchin' up: Evil overlords to flaccid clowns in the blink of Jesus' ...

Just to illustrate and transcontinentally expand on Fixer's post a little, with accompanying article in the EssEffChron .

LATimes His position as the state's top law enforcement authority did not protect Jerry Brown -- or his car -- when thieves made off wit...

Gee, he doesn't look Sephardic ... From Raw Story : Churchgoers are more likely to back torture of suspected terrorists, according to a...

The paper it's in makes me wanta toss my cookies a lot too. With video. Boehner says Obama's bills makes him 'want to throw up...

While most of this "Swine Flu" hubbub is overblown, there's one place where you can't take chances. On a cruise ship, sic...

WASHINGTON — Justice David H. Souter plans to retire at the end of the term in June, giving President Obama his first appointment to the Sup...

Political Wire via Watertiger : The AP obtained partial results from a GOP poll that showed Republicans "are widely viewed by the publ...

Two links in one day, by the same blog! One of the greatest blogs in the world, WTF Is It Now?!? , has seen fit, thanks to the Blogmeister ...

Actually, it's less than a quarter and falling fast. Its demise cannot come soon enough. Gopasaurus Stolen from Kos hisself. Who knows...

Think Progress Speaking with a group of Stanford students Monday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that al Qaeda is a gre...

The Rude Pundit loves him some whiskey ! Frees him up to say what he wants. Heh. Frankly, the Rude Pundit doesn't give a happy monkeyfu...

[ A big Brain welcome to Maru's readers - F. ] That CNN has the balls to give Obama a "grade" for his first hundred days. It...

But after 100 days, I give Barry a B-minus. Woulda got a B-plus or A had he not tried to keep Bush's "unitary executive" bull...