Archive for April, 2006
Bad Behavior on Baltimore
Around 2:00 this afternoon, I rode my bike up Baltimore Avenue to grab a cuppa coffee at the Satellite, a new place downstairs from Firehouse Bicycles at 50th Street. I crossed the trolley tracks at 49th and was riding past Cedar Park, when I saw group of four or five guys from the neighborhood [...]
Read More..>>Gogol Bordello
I’m listenign to an interview with Gogol Bordello on NPR. When I was in UncleFucker, we opened for them once and they opened for us, both times at North Sixth in Williamsburg. Izzy and Eugene know each other pretty well (Izzy knows everyone, and is himself a freakin’ rock star).
That band was/is amazing. [...]
Pink
Go listen.
Dear Mr. President.
“You don’t know nothing about hard work.” Indeed.
I always did like Pink.
Neil Young: Living With War
Listen to Neil’s new album for free here. Neil’s made it available online for free. This is really good.
Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Electirc version)” was one of the first songs that really blew my mind. I was 11, maybe 12 years old. He’s had some weak periods, but this [...]
The Party of Family Values
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI is �investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall �Duke� Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites.� The Journal also said the investigators are exploring �whether any other members of Congress� are involved.
-Think Progress
The ring [...]
Plame Fascination
I am fascinated by the Plame investigation, and my favorite Plame site is Firedoglake..
Jane, Christy, and frequent guest-blogger Taylor are such incisive, witty, and altogether with-it writers.
Bookmark, and visit often!
Ricky Wants to Give Me $100.00
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.
However, the GOP energy package may face tough sledding because it also includes a controversial proposal to open part of the Arctic [...]
Senate Panel Urge FEMA Dismantling
A Atriso points out, it was Joe Lieberman that wanted FEMA rolled into DHS in the first place.
Ms. Collins and Mr. Lieberman, who in 2004 helped lead a similar restructuring of the management of the nation’s intelligence agencies, said the recreated agency at homeland security would have the authority and resources needed to lead a [...]
Where are the Schindlers? The Randall Terrys?
h/t to Atta Turk:
Houston Hopspital Votes to End Woman’s Life With Bush Law:
HOUSTON—The countdown has begun on the life of Andrea Clark, a patient at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Six days left.
No, she’s not terminal, her family says and she’s not brain dead. Her sisters say that she wants to live. The Houston hospital is going [...]
Sets
I started lifting recently. Not huge weights obviously, but about two weeks ago I maxed out by doubling what I had already been doing, and that’s become my standard weight. I do three sets of 10. The effect has been noticeable: my biceps are bigger, my delts more prominent. My chest is [...]
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