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Here is Nanci Griffith singing that iconic bad times tune by Stephen Foster. Included in the video are the picures of some of the players wh...

A lovely Irish tune. Paddy Moloney on pipes and whistle Sandy Kelly , Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keane ~ Sonny Thanks to 1000Magicians , UK.

Thanks to Slate .

Goblinbooks With Rick Santorum out of the race, the Republican base is scrambling to build support around another contender who could beat R...

The Rude One : ... Calling the Ten Commandments a "historic document" is like calling The Cat in the Hat a guide to pet care. ...

Bloomberg for him ? A New Jersey mayor was hospitalised after entering a burning house to save a neighbour, US media have reported. Newa...

Can drinking beer make you smarter? Perhaps, according to a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ... Heh ...

Over the mountains and through the woods to the Big City we will go. It's snowing. I'll try to get some video or photos of the rare...

Difference being, there'll be no tears shed over this one. Thanks to YubaNet .

Daily Kos on Barney Franks' response to the remarks by one of the dumbest sonsabitches in Congress. "Not even Joe McCarthy would h...

In light of today's events . Peter Townshend - I Believe My Own Eyes

Rain this morning but I got some stuff done on the deck this afternoon.

Senior Citizens Grill Republican Congressman At Town Hall For Supporting Ryan Plan To Kill Medicare (VIDEO) I think the meeting did not go a...

It's Wednesday. Guess who . Heh. If he hadn't weighed in on this one, I'da been worried about him. And then came the headline t...

I gotta hand it to old Fidel myself. I have no love for Communists but anybody who can give the finger to 10 American Presidents and live ...

Of the Clown Car. The last clown has been thrown under the bus. I think it's nice AI has reprised the Frothy Mixture's greatest ...

New facts about stuff we knew and now see it quantified : ... For example, take the states with the highest and lowest teen pregnancy ra...

Got the 3rd section of the deck built today while keeping an eye on the weather satellite. Back after I clean up my mess and shower ...

Somehow I suspect the christowhacktards on the never-right will do this much more than the Dems, but accusing other people of what they them...

I live very near Nevada and the Nevada bear hunting season is controversial big news around here. Here's an account of some slimy intimi...