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Now that I've got your attention, those are really big around here. This weekend is the annual Concours d'Elegance and Woody Week f...

The only politician who's in touch with reality on the health care issue is Howard Dean? I realize he's a doctor but it's hard ...

Nanci Griffith does this song better than about anybody! With yodelling! This has only been up at YouTube a coupla days. I've waited soo...

Okay, so I'm on a thing today: Bond - Pachelbel's Canon in 'D'

The 34th Annual Father's Day Bluegrass Festival is being held this weekend in Grass Valley CA. Check the lineup here and listen to it l...

Irony is not dead. It just smells like it. An excerpt from a piece by Froomkin : If we were to start an online newspaper from scratch today,...

More GOP "Huckster" Hoekstra Get His Lunch Handed to Him by Twitterers . Thanks, BuzzFlash .

Emmylou Harris ~ It's A Hard Life & Abraham, Martin, And John Thanks to BlueGrassRootsTV .

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I enjoy the fact today's artists are working with the old masters' scores and arranging them for instruments never conceived in the ...

I've been really cynical about health care reform but there is a bright spot. The stubborn old Liberals in the House have had it with ...

Maru : ... Oh, and I will no longer be linking to the new moonie times ... That would be the now Froomkin-less Washington Post .

And not for us. Scarecrow via Digby : ... 1. The insurance companies get the federal government to mandate that everyone must purchase ins...

Think Progress . Links at site and video if you must. Caught Up In Nostalgic Reagan Hysteria, ‘Student Of History’ McCain Credits Him For 19...

Rove: I’m Horrified That A News Network Would Be A ‘Cooperating Partner’ Of The White House Hey, you with the wet-'n-dry vacuum and the ...

I like the idea of calling D.C. "The Village", particularly after seeing the M. Night Shyamalan pretty dumb movie of the same nam...

Raw Story Tired of waving the national security flag, Obama administration lawyers are apparently trying another tactic to get the courts to...

Pic stolen from our pal Nunya . Happy Friday! Off to work ...

That Bob Dole is senile and Tom Daschle is an idiot : ... Acknowledging that there is little chance for bipartisanship in the House, Dole ur...

The smartass is me , not these gals. They're pretty good. This goes out to all y'all that have had yer hearts broken lately by peopl...