I know this is the only comment this post will get.
I've been away for a few days just waiting for something to comment on. If only I had speakers.
Heebie, you forgot to put "Discuss." after "It's a great song." That's why you'll get no more than two comments on this post.
So you don't actually like the song, then?
There I'm using straightforward psychology.
I am surprisingly pleased to see her looking as if she's stepped back from Death's door. I didn't know I cared.
She's trying to ensure that no-one will buy it for her as a wedding gift.
It is totally going on the wedding playlist, to be sure.
Just tell us where the friggin' briar patch is and we'll throw you in. Life is too short for cleverness and misdirection.
Oops, discuss the friggin' briar patch.
This post put a stop to all commenting on all posts. Impressive.
This is the last comment anywhere on the whole Internet, ever.
Hoping that neb will play this on his radio show...
This post put a stop to all commenting on all posts.
I believe that Whitney's the blog-killer
Post her song and comments go away...
16: I'll be he would if you gave him a million dollars, bill.
Apo found the greatest comment of all inside of himself. IYKWIMAITTYD. NTTAWWT.
EVERYBODY CAN START COMMENTING AGAIN.
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will post a Commeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent!
19: Or promised him a trip to Mars. (Or more realistically, a trip to Antarctica with Henry Kaiser.)
23: Or a trip to Chile with Henry Kissinger!
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And an anonymous White House official tells Politico "We have been saying all along that the most important part of this debate is not the public option, but rather ensuring choice and competition insurance company profits."
As far as I can tell eight months in, Obama may as well be Joe Lieberman. And McManus appears to have been 100% correct that Baucus is doing exactly what Obama wants him to do.
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Dammit, apo. We'll never keep this post at 0 comments if you keep bringing up extraneous matter.
27: Bumper sticker sighted on a bike locked up outside my building: "Obama [logo]: Sucks So Far."
It's an ok song. Too much bottom, too much compression, are there any guitars or keyboards at all, a little too fast, a little too simple.
But I wouldn't change channels. Sounds close enough that they could do some real soul if they wanted too.
What Can I Say I'm just hopeless, every indie emo cliche made flesh.
Too much bottom
McManus is no Sir Mix-a-Lot.
31: I wanna laugh with somebody. I wanna feel the mirth with somebody.
How will I know if you all really like this post? I try to comment but I'm too shy! Can't speak!
26:OOh. Lyle. I'm your biggest fan.
I was trying to come up with a reinterpretation of IMS like Indie Melancholic Sadcore
27:I'm honestly lost in the smoke and mirrors. The House looks firm. Gonna be an opacity, then a Chinese Firedrill excuse the expression, then we will know whether it is Mt Rushmore, guillotines, or moving to Canada. God's truth, I'm too confused to even be pessimistiv today.
The pressures on the House. Well the Blue Dogs are vulnerable, but unfortunately they are vulnerable to Republicans. The progressives are pretty safe, but fucking Rahm and Obama can run a moderate for their seat in 2010. The Senate is a Black Box.
The leaks aren't even for us, but directed at each other. Obama will deliver platitudes and homilies, and waterboard behind closed doors. Baucus may have bolted. Anybody who thinks they know what is going on is wrong.
Anyone who likes this post should show it by not commenting on it until 4:00 PM. OK?
Data says: Billions of people like this post!
Except M/tch. who is a well-known hater.
I like the post, but I do not like the song.
A pale shadow of the greatness of early Whitney . She really had it all in the 80s. The crack has taken its toll.
45: Maybe you and bob can meet for a beer together now.
He's in my office right now: nice guy, cute dogs.
I am sad.
I'm disappointed, but not even a little surprised. It's the same feeling I had a few months into the Clinton administration.
42: If the moon's so great, how come we haven't colonized it, huh?
48: I was spared disappointment in Clinton by leaving the country immediately after the election and being isolated from news for two years. By the time I got back, things were so weird that the fact that he appeared to be a Rockefeller Republican didn't bother me as much as it should have.
48: No, I'm not surprised, either. I'm old enough to have seen this movie, and many like it, long before. That's why we made the bumper stickers during the primaries. Nevertheless, I'm sad. So much passion, so many possibilities for engaging a younger generation in politics and public service, in danger of being squandered. Still, it's early. There's time yet, I suppose, but Afghanistan is making me increasingly edgy.
It seems odd that 100% of the people with power in a political party want to demoralize their supporters. But I guess they have a feeling like this is their chance to tip the balance of bribery money in their favor, which will then let them outspend the other party on advertising.
If the moon's so great, how come we haven't colonized it, huh?
I realize this is not a real question but, apparently moon dust is super abrasive which makes long term exposure to it very bad for things like air seals.
48: Interestingly, I hated Clinton going in to 1992, so I wound up pleasantly surprised. Proof yet again that happiness comes from low expectations.
I think this is a nice song, Heebie. Very old-school. I could dance to it.
42:At least he didn't frontpage my sliming of Atticus Finch.
(long self-serving literature comment deleted)
At least he didn't frontpage my sliming of Atticus Finch.
You were pwned by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker on that one.
57:It started with a link to Malcolm Gladwell, then I used some reading on Governor Folsom to try to understand Harper Lee. I went a lot further than Gladwell.
Some lawyer blogs riffed off Gladwell, getting some outraged comments in response. Lots of fun.
57, 58: It's all pretty fucking precious what with being written in 2009 and all. Like, cutting edge.
55 speaks for me. And that's why I'm comfortable with republican government, and not that interested in direct democracy.
"Unexpected correlations were found between song preferences and attitudes towards representational democracy."
Relatedly, Yglesias now appears to be advocating constitutional monarchy. I wonder what this says about his musical taste.
59:Well, I do assume there are shelves of books about TKM.
And yes, the question as to why Gladwell wrote it and TNY published it is interesting, isn't it? How could it possbly be relevant?
Obama = Atticus Finch.
I'd like to note that 21 totally worked. brokeNCYDE fixed the blog. Healed, even.
I just watched both the Whitney and brokeNCYDE videos. I'm not sure what to say about either.
I know I shouldn't get more political in this thread , so just a link to Ezra Klein, who at least acts like he understands what is going on with health care more than most commentary I have read today. At least the White House part of the game.
I have no further comment, except to say that Obama should remember he is the most powerful badasss mutha in the world, has at least ten aircraft carrier groups at his disposal, amd Olympia Snowe's state has a coastline. Just sayin'
The Klein piece is concerning. I'm to the right of many people here on this issue in that I don't think the public option is really the core piece of the bill, getting the insurance regulation and the exchanges would be a much bigger accomplishment. But pulling back from universal coverage could seriously endanger the insurance regulation part, which I think is key. Something significantly less generous than the Senate HELP bill is really a problem. If at the end of the day we're just looking at a Medicaid expansion then that would suck.
I should read less comment sections that get me frustrated and overexcited.
I have come to deeply regret hinting that I would accept the carpet bombing of the State of Maine in order to get a decent health care bill. Obama should take no such actions.
These kind of intemperate comments is why I don't get frontpaged more often.
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I just posted some pictures of Metone. Possibly of interest only to JP, but I figured I'd mention it.
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Thanks, nice and scrubby ( and it's Mentone, but you knew that). I thought of it when the highest points in states came up the other day. Guadalupe Peak is not too far away and is one of the state high points almost right on a state border. One of the few I've been at the top of, I hiked up it after a relatively rare snowfall the day after I had been in Mentone. The trail is a bit spooky in that it goes past the wreckage from a 1940s plane crash.
Huh, I hadn't even noticed that I misspelled it.
And yeah, Mentone is very close to both the highest point in Texas and the lowest point in New Mexico. (That would be Red Bluff Reservoir; note the boat in one of the pictures.)
UPDATE: My family saga gets even crazier.
My uncle's dogs seem to be in the house, and somebody is getting mail, but the doors were all locked up as though nobody was there.
My other cousin writes:
One reason B decided not to preside over the wedding was that M made him uneasy and she had lied directly to him. M said she met Dad skiing in Colorado about 10 years ago. Dad had told B he had met her over the phone and B didn't believe that Dad was in any shape to ski 10 years ago in any case. B did not confront her over the lie, and let it go.
B doesn't know how long Dad and M had been in contact. He thinks they met over the phone, 800 number perhaps from TV, but didn't know the details. He said from the strength of her voice he guessed her age to be in her 30s.
The dog groomer's report. (They had wanted one of the dogs to board since it wouldn't be able to stay with them in a smaller place but cancelled, since the smaller dog was freaking out at the separation):
DG saw Dad and M together. She said Dad seemed happy. She described M as about 40, attractive, well dressed, and nice, but volunteered that she got a strange feeling from M nonetheless.
Thanks, nice and scrubby
"Nice and scrubby" is teo's new nickname?
74: I'm sorry that your family saga is crazier, BG, but I've got to say that it's cheered up my evening. From Antarctica to North Dakota, Unfogged never ceases to amaze.
Again with the condolences and well-wishes, BG. That's some unnerving stuff.
Piling on with condolences, BG. Are there any other back-channel communication lines you can work towards talking to the uncle? That seems to be what you want here. Even if just to chat.
Bumper sticker sighted on a bike locked up outside my building: "Obama [logo]: Sucks So Far."
This is exactly what I've been wanting, except for a small addition: "Obama [logo]: Sucks So Far, Though I Knew I Was Voting for a Centrist, So I Don't Feel Betrayed So Much As Deeply Disappointed That He Didn't Use His Mandate to Move to the Left, and Goddamnit, We Still Elected a Black Democrat, Yes We Did, and I'm Not One Bit Sorry for Spending My Time and Money.
I regret that 80 makes me sound like an insensitive jackass. (I'm commenting as I'm reading the thread so hadn't gotten to 74 yet.) Sorry to hear, BG; that's messed up.
Yeah, I add that I didn't mean to sound like an insensitive jackass either--I had missed a couple of your initial comments and didn't realize quite how messed up the situation was. I hope you don't let yourself feel too responsible for behavior you really can't control. One of the horrible things I've realized over several recent episodes of dealing with vulnerable people who aren't well is that sometimes there just isn't much you can do, no matter how responsible you feel.
Frowner, it is kind of funny. If it were my Dad, as it could well be, I'd probably be a bit more paralyzed and depressed. I'm concerned, but my cousins seem to be handling this okay.
If it were a sit-com, it would be hilarious.
It may be that your new aunt doesn't understand how the various trusts work, and will find herself disappointed at not getting much of an inheritance, when the time comes.
CC- He does have some money free and clear--if he still has it. When my grandmother died, the trust for her benefit dissolved and all of that money went to her children.
The only big thing to worry about right now is his credit card bill. It seems that most of his other bills are currently being handled by a law firm's private client group, so they should (thought they can at times be really dumb) notice something super strange. What they could do, I don't know.
I guess that the lawyer was planning to call the Chelsea police to have them do a Wellness check or something.