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I had such luck embedding a Vimeo clip using Windows Live Writer that I thought it was worth trying YouTube through the editor. (Embedding always fails through the Wordpress editor with this template.) And if it works you get to see T Bone Burnett with the Raising Sand Revue doing "Shut It Tight." Buddy Miller’s [...]

A couple weeks ago, Sybil Vane wrote about coming to visit what the connected locals tend to call Thistown, the place where Tim Russert lived and worked. My town, sort of. I mean, I live here – really, just north of it, and I work somewhere west. But I’ve been down on the Mall and [...]

By Thoreau Hussein X
In a show of solidarity with Barack [political liability middle name] Obama, some Obama supporters are now using “Hussein” as the middle part of their screen names online.
I was ahead of the curve on this practice.
BTW, I have just obtained video footage of Obama at an Al Qaeda training camp.

By Thoreau
10 patented inventions for fighting terrorism. My personal favorite is the hazmat suit with built-in toilet, because I’ve always known that most of the concern over terrorism comes from shitting oneself in fear rather than a measured assessment of risks. But the trap door on the airplane is pretty nifty. Hat-tip [...]