Unqualified Offerings

1. All of my friend Jesse Walker’s articles for No Depression are, he informs a Facebook-connected world, online now. Kinks, Dylan, Billy Joe Shaver, Pogues, Doris Duke.
2. So in between the okay Jerusalem and the awful Washington Square Serenade, Steve Earle put out The Revolution Starts Now, a record I didn’t give a thorough listen [...]

By Thoreau
I was willing to support a 10% furlough to save jobs. I was under the impression that this “furlough” was a convenient fiction, and that there would be no actual reduction in workload. Now there is a rumor that they will cancel 5 Friday lectures during the quarter to make the [...]

Tom Knapp:
As for the president … wtf? Surely the leader of the free world, messiah of the Democratic Party, ayatollah of rock and rollah, etc., etc., can find something better than Bud Lite in the White House fridge. God help us all if he decides we need a national beer care plan.

Me, I don’t drink.

So was Harriet Christian excluded from Barack Obama’s manly men’s gathering because of her gender? Huh? Huh??
Also, I haven’t checked the pool report yet: was there drumming?

I know just enough French to get that some commenters on Anniceris take issue with both my translation and my attribution. One also accuses me of French-bashing. Well, I suppose I took the Floyd Landis case hard, but I’ll plead innocent of French-bashing in the first degree. Your hardcore American French-bashers are obsessed with the [...]

A correspondent avers that my best blogging these days shows up on my Google Reader shared-items page. So, here are yesterday’s links in handy bullet form:
* IOZ on the “free” “market”
* The Stiftung on the Occupation – of America
* “Banana-eating jungle monkey?” Is America losing its previously unassailable global edge in racial [...]