Monthly Archives: October 2008

Telling

kos @ Daily Kos writes:

So who won? Who cares.

That means Palin won. And I think that means he knows it.

Frankly, I think she did, too. She may have sounded like a little wind-up talking-points machine, but she did it with a smile.

Updated...

After rewatching a bunch of her answers, I'm starting to wonder just what the fuck I was thinking when I wrote this. Her answers now seem shrill and hollow and her attitude is a strange mix of condescension and cynical manipulation - her downhome cornpone youbetchaism is fake (she doesn't show it in the 2006 Alaska Governor's debate); her answers are all canned; she pushes that bullshit idea that the only real Americans are those who live in small towns. She's a fraud.

Name That Tune #3

It's over!

Dear readers, an entire week has passed since the last Name That Tune. And, since you guys and gals didn't get them all, I'm going to give y'all another chance...

And so, as before, there are twenty song clips below, from twenty different songs, from twenty different artists. Can you identify them, both the song name and the artist ?

Clip Artist / Title Who Got It
Song #1 Gillian Welch / I Wanna Sing That Rock And Roll --
Song #2 The Faces / Ooh La La Remy
Song #3 Pink Floyd / Candy and a Currant Bun Cris
Song #4 AC-DC / Rocker --
Song #5 Peter Gabriel / Biko photonaton
Song #6 Bob Marley / Jamming russell
Song #7 Radiohead / Creep russell
Song #8 New Pornographers / Twin Cinema --
Song #9 The Beatles / Blue Jay Way Cris
Song #10 Flaming Lips / She Don't Use Jelly brooksie
Song #11 Beck / Where It's At brooksie
Song #12 Crosby, Stills, and Nash / Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Cris
Song #13 Violent Femmes / Kiss Off Cris
Song #14 Nirvana / All Apologies Atlantys
Song #15 Raspberries / Go All The Way Cris
Song #16 Fugazi / Suggestion --
Song #17 Green Day / Longview Atlantys
Song #18 Wilco / Can't stand it osangjin
Song #19 Prince / Kiss Cris
Song #20 Billy Joel / Movin’ Out Cris

Hints
#1 - G&D want to sing Rock & Roll.
#2 - Ron not Rod, on this one.
#4 - Aussies, 1976. Bon. Angus.
#5 - The man, he is dead. Because.
#8 - Title track to the 2005 album. Canadian supergroup.
#10 - Steve was pleasantly surprised when they played this on 90210. Orange hair.
#11 - I agree, that drum break was good. Turntables.
#14 - It's the unplugged version
#16 - Its title is a synonym for any one of the items in this list. Dischordant. post-Minor Threat.
#17 - It's about beating-off
#18 - Some are here and some are there. Post-Uncle tupelo.

Leave your answers in comments. I'll mark them off as people get them.

Hints will be provided if necessary.

The person with the most correct answers will win a wonderful trophy!

Shocking

MyNC.com:

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for threatening employees of two civil rights organizations because of their race and national origin.

The Department of Justice said Wednesday that Christopher Szaz of Raleigh sent threatening e-mails to employees at the National Council of La Raza and the Council on American Islamic Relations in Washington.

According to court documents, Szaz sent two e-mail messages in June 2007 threatening to bomb CAIR's office. Szaz also sent an e-mail the next month stating he would kill employees at the La Raza office.

Prosecutors said Szaz admitted his actions were motivated by racial and ethnic bias. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison.

And yet Kathleen Parker is surprised ?