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Here's Tony Rice and one of his bands (I can't keep track!) doing a Gordon Lightfoot tune. Featured is Jerry Douglas , the hardest...

MoJo There's just one facility in the world where scientists and emergency responders can run full-scale oil spill response tests and re...

Stephen Pizzo By the time I was done covering Washington politicians I’d came to the rock-solid conclusion that they were only half the prob...

Mustang Bobby : ... And instead of being shocked and saddened by the vulture culture in Washington -- or anywhere powerful people gather -- ...

An old Louvin Brothers tune. With Gillian Welch and David Rawlings . GRAND OLE OPRY LIVE February 17th 2006 Emmylou Harris & Elvis Cos...

Hund vuvuzela verängstigt Boden pisst. FAIL ! Didn't look like the dog failed to me. Well, maybe a little. She shoulda took a dump . Tha...

Oh swell. Give a training exercise a Wermacht-themed name in these days of invading nations for no reason other than imperialist/capitalist ...

If God is in the details, then Wizarding World is the holiest place on Earth. Better there than the Vatican or Mecca or Jerusalem.

MoDo on McChrystal and Chaos-istan: Afghanistan is more than the “graveyard of empires.” It’s the mother of vicious circles. So the command...

US Army employee threatens vuvuzela blower with an ax

Friday Morford with worst-case scenarios about BP's runaway gusher. So there you have it. Toxic rain and supersonic tsunamis, the end o...

The HORN “Mr. President, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.” These famous words...

HuffPo , links at site. Gulf Coast law firms Levin Papantonio, Eastland Law and others have begun filing a series of civil RICO actions in F...

Unfortunately, the average American doesn't pay enough attention to how their country is being run to understand this . Either that or ...

Every time there's a military money problem, the Big 3 question the need for a Marine Corps. Since they've basically been used latel...

Thanks to YubaNet . Also see this one . Perhaps more to the point.

Posted by Rack Jite in Dumbutt, Texas Institute for Creation Research laughed out of court in Texas Because they wanted to give Masters Deg...

If you follow the last link in Digby's post referred to by Fixer just below , you come to Glenn Greenwald . See The Washington Post...

Digby sez it well: ... As we've already explored in great depth over the years, the purpose of journalism is not to tell the truth or e...

With dumbass politicians : ROME -- Italian politician Umberto Bossi apologized Wednesday for his much-criticized remarks that Italy would ...