Listen/watch live here, here or here. Suggest other streams/sources in the comments. Update: VAN CLOSED. Be here next Tuesday starting at probably 6 p.m. or whenever Doc gets in for our Election Night van! A. Continue reading WI Recall Debate Crack Van
Listen/watch livehere, here orhere. Suggest other streams/sources in the comments. Update: VAN CLOSED. Be here next Tuesday starting at probably 6 p.m. or whenever Doc gets in for our Election Night van! A. Continue reading WI Recall Debate Crack Van
You are welcome, America. A. Continue reading The Incredible Hulk Throws A Bear
David Simon, who I love as a storyteller: And this slow suicide — as the great Molly Ivins called it — will continue unabated until the industry swallows hard and takes its product — every last newspaper — behind a paywall. And if they don’t do that? If not, then it is the day of the “citizen journalist,” which is to say, the day of the amateur. And American institutions, or for that matter the world as a whole, will not be held accountable by individuals doing this as a hobby. Paywalls have nothing to do with what happened to … Continue reading Valuing Journalism: David Simon
From Album4 So, a week to go and Norman Bates lookalike Scott Walker is in a dead heat…hanging on by the skin of…barely managing to stay even despite an absurd amount of mostly out-of-state money that might be able to purchase an election…but can’t buy back Walker’s credibility. Anyway, even though I hate having to settle for moral victories — and literally bang my head on the table when “our” side doesn’t even bother to show up, much less bring a knife to a gun fight — the people of Wisconsin have scared them. Scared them enough to throw an … Continue reading Crunch Time
SHOCKING: Public pensions are like paper currencies: They work well when managed by principled fiscally responsible people, if you can find them, but are vulnerable to political decisions to boost spending, cut income, and leave the program unsustainable for future generations. Pennsylvania is a prime offender: Under former Gov. Tom Ridge (R), the state in 2001 boosted pensions even as it cut taxpayer support. (Public workers also pay more than 6% of their paychecks into the fund, but it’s not enough to pay all the future checks.) To replace lost state revenues, the plans hired hundreds of expensive private-sector money … Continue reading We Fucked Up The System and Now It Don’t Work No More!
A new poll shows the state’s in a dead heat at 49% per. From Greg Sargent at The Plum Line: A new poll taken by pollster Celinda Lake — who is a Democrat but is well respected by polling professionals — has found that the battle between Scott Walker and challenger Tom Barrett is now deadlocked, at 49 percent each. The poll — which will be released later today and was comissioned by the pro-labor Greater Wisconsin Committee’s political fund — also finds that independents are breaking towards Barrett, 49-44. VOTE! Walker thinks you won’t… New ad: Behind the Recall: … Continue reading 49’r state
FromAlbum4 So, aweek to go and Norman Bates lookalike Scott Walker isin a dead heat…hanging on by the skin of…barely managing to stay even despite an absurd amount of mostly out-of-state money that might be able to purchase an election…but can’t buy back Walker’s credibility. Anyway, even though I hate having to settle for moral victories — and literally bang my head on the table when“our” side doesn’t even bother to show up, much less bring a knife to a gun fight — the people of Wisconsin have scared them. Scared them enough to throw an ocean of money into…Scott … Continue reading Crunch Time
As I posted over at my place this morning, Mr. Beale and I have just returned from a long weekend in New York City. New York is both America’s cultural and financial center, so the stuff I see there always resonates on a bigger level with me. It’s a place that always makes me think about where this country is and where it’s going. And sometimes what I think is, WTF? For instance, this, seen somewhere around West 53rd and 7th Avenue: I couldn’t see that and not think of Andrew Breitbart ranting, “stop raaaping people … stop raaaping people … Continue reading Interesting Times
You know, I’m pissed off enough that the Jetsons lied to me, and that in the 21st Century we are not, in fact, being served by robot nannies and flying around in jetpacks and shit. I’m pissed off enough that society hasn’t advanced to that point yet. Meanwhile, not only have we not weaned ourselves off fossil fuels and created world peace, we can’t even stop handcuffing kids to stuff if they get out of hand: JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at … Continue reading Progress!
A new poll shows the state’s in a dead heat at 49% per. FromGreg Sargent at The Plum Line: A new poll taken by pollster Celinda Lake — who is a Democrat but is well respected by polling professionals — has found that the battle between Scott Walker and challenger Tom Barrett is now deadlocked, at 49 percent each. The poll — which will be released later today and was comissioned by the pro-labor Greater Wisconsin Committee’s political fund — also finds that independents are breaking towards Barrett, 49-44. VOTE! Walker thinks you won’t… New ad: Behind the Recall: The … Continue reading 49’r state
Via the Crack Den, here’s about the best encapsulation of where we are right now I’ve yet read: More widely, it raises some troubling questions about the way that the media and politicians talk about poverty and benefit claimants. While outrage has, rightly, been focused on the fact that Thorpe was misrepresented since she is not unemployed, that is not the only problem with the interview. It perpetrates lazy assumptions about single mothers: scroungers who should hide themselves away and not ask for anything. On Twitter, Thorpe says that in the full interview, Stratton asked her why she chose to … Continue reading Scapegoating: Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit
I’ve not followed the HuffPo’s advice to not watch The Weight of the Nation, in no small part because I was hoping it would focus more on this: The fourth section: “… CHALLENGES, examines the major driving forces causing the obesity epidemic, including agriculture, economics, evolutionary biology, food marketing, racial and socioeconomic disparities, physical inactivity, American food culture, and the strong influence of the food and beverage industry.” This part of it is FASCINATING, though short shrift is given to the inherent race and class distinctions in health-related amenities in rich and poor communities. I could watch a whole series … Continue reading The Weight of Our Choices
Via the Crack Den, here’s about the best encapsulation of where we are right now I’ve yet read: More widely, it raises some troubling questions about the way that the media and politicians talk about poverty and benefit claimants. While outrage has, rightly, been focused on the fact that Thorpe was misrepresented since she is not unemployed, that is not the only problem with the interview. It perpetrates lazy assumptions about single mothers: scroungers who should hide themselves away and not ask for anything. On Twitter, Thorpe says that in the full interview, Stratton asked her why she chose to … Continue reading Scapegoating: Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit
We here at First Draft believe in recycling so I decided to repeat this Memorial Day post for the third year in a row. Just call it the trifecta: The veteran I’d like to remember on this solemn holiday is the late Sgt. Eddie Couvillion. My family tree is far too tangled and gnarly to describe here but suffice it to say that Eddie was my second father. He served in Europe during World War II, not in combat but in the Army Quartermaster Corps. In short, he was a supply Sergeant, one of those guys who won the war … Continue reading Memorial Day: Who I Remember
New Orleans does, that’s who. I was off the grid when the news started bubbling on the tweeter tube so I learned about the treachery, malakatude and douchebaggery of the suits at Newhouse from A right here on lil’ ole First Draft. My twitter and facebook feeds are on fire with the news plus the Gambit’s estimable editor, Kevin Allman, has posted a memo sent to staff by the retiring publisher and NOLA nob, Ashton Phelps: The story, which can be accessed through this link, details the formation of NOLA Media Group, a digitally focused company that will launch this … Continue reading NOLA Notes: Who needs a daily paper?
As I posted over at my place this morning, Mr. Beale and I have just returned from a long weekend in New York City. New York is both America’s cultural and financial center, so the stuff I see there always resonates on a bigger level with me. It’s a place that always makes me think about where this country is and where it’s going. And sometimes what I think is, WTF? For instance, this, seen somewhere around West 53rd and 7th Avenue: I couldn’t see that and not think of Andrew Breitbart ranting, “stop raaaping people … stop raaaping people … Continue reading Interesting Times
You know, I’m pissed off enough that the Jetsons lied to me, and that in the 21st Century we are not, in fact, being served by robot nannies and flying around in jetpacks and shit. I’m pissed off enough that society hasn’t advanced to that point yet. Meanwhile, not only have we not weaned ourselves off fossil fuels and created world peace, we can’t even stop handcuffing kids to stuff if they get out of hand: JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Public schools in Jackson, Mississippi, will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at … Continue reading Progress!
Good morning, gentle people – back to light duty, so a relatively short “Obsession” today.
Since it is Memorial Day, let’s lead off with the Freeperatis’ salute to the troops they so profess to love.
Soldiers? RINOS!!!!
Veterans Favor Obama Over Romney – They’re Sick of War
The Auburn Journal ^| May 13, 2012 | “Over_L”Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:38:42 AM by Colonel Kangaroo
YAY! The good Captain got a promotion!
(In related news, Mr. Green Jeans is now Corporal Green Jeans)
According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, veterans favor Obama over Romney by as much as seven percentage points. They favor cutting the defense budget. Read more…
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show “drooling over firearms,” as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, and an 1861 Springfield rifle from an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.
But when it comes to the 2012 presidential election, Master Sergeant McDowell is no hawk.
In South Carolina’s January primary, the one-time Reagan supporter voted for Ron Paul “because of his unchanging stand against overseas involvement.” In November, McDowell plans to vote for the candidate least likely to wage “knee-jerk reaction wars.”
Disaffection with the politics of shock and awe runs deep among men and women who have served in the military during the past decade of conflict. Only 32 percent think the war in Iraq ended successfully, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. And far more of them would pull out of Afghanistan than continue military operations there.
While the 2012 campaign today is dominated by economic and domestic issues, military concerns could easily jump to the fore. Nearly 90,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. Israeli politicians and their U.S. supporters debate over whether to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities as partisans bicker over proposed Pentagon budget cuts.
Mitt Romney has accused President Obama of “a dangerous course” in wanting to cut $1 trillion from the defense budget – although the administration’s actual proposal is a reduction of $487 billion over the next decade.
“We should not negotiate with the Taliban,” the former Massachusetts governor contends. “We should defeat the Taliban.” He has blamed Obama for “procrastination toward Iran” and advocates arming Syrian rebels.
Romney, along with his primary rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, had also accused Obama of “appeasement” toward U.S. enemies – a charge that drew a sharp Obama rebuttal. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who’ve been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement,” the president shot back. He has reproached GOP candidates: “Now is not the time for bluster.”
If the election were held today, Obama would win the veteran vote by as much as seven points over Romney, higher than his margin in the general population.
FADING COOL FACTOR
The GOP’s heated rhetoric, aimed at the party’s traditional hawks, might be expected to resonate with veterans. Yet in interviews in South Carolina, a military-friendly red state, many former soldiers expressed anger at the toll of a decade of war, questioned the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion, and worried that the surge in Afghanistan won’t make a difference in the long run.
“We looked real cool going into Iraq waving our guns,” said McDowell, 50, who retired from the 82d Airborne Division in November with a Legion of Merit and two Bronze Stars. “But people lost their lives, and it made no sense.”
Now he worries. “I really don’t like the direction we are going, how we seem to come closer daily towards a war with Iran.”
In Columbia, where McDowell lives in a leafy subdivision, the streets are named for American Revolutionary war heroes, and the Confederate battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds. Pizza parlors offer a 10 percent discount to uniformed soldiers from nearby Fort Jackson, one of eight military bases that pump $13 billion a year into the state’s economy.
In exit polls, a quarter of voters in January’s primary identified themselves as veterans.
Among them were Karen and Kelly Grafton, devout Southern Baptists who live in the small town of Prosperity, outside Columbia, and spend their vacations at Nascar races. They voted for Santorum.
“He just came off a little bit better than the others,” said Karen Grafton, 51, a real estate agent who served 20 years in the Air Force. “He stuck to his story about what he has done and what he will do.”
The Graftons’ votes, however, like many veterans’, can’t be taken as evidence of a hard-line military stance. Registered Republicans, they cast their ballots for Obama in 2008 because he promised to bring the troops home from Iraq.
“I went to war for George Bush,” said Grafton, 48, a retired Army master sergeant who served in special operations units in Somalia and Iraq. “But we can’t keep policing the world.”
Karen Grafton, a retired Air Force recruiter, said she’ll be “glad when we’re out of Afghanistan.” The military budget? “I’m sure it can be cut,” she said. “Everyone has to make concessions.” Still, many former soldiers worry that Pentagon cuts could mean stingier salaries, pensions, and education and housing benefits.
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I can’t believe that there is any great enthusiasm among our military for Obama on his own merits. But there may be evidence that the strain of a decade of war is being felt by an undermanned military.And some may view the amateur Obama’s shaky level of competence to be safer than some of Romney’s connections to some of the more bellicose foreign policy elements from the George W. Bush admistration.1 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:38:48 AM by Colonel Kangaroo
To: Colonel KangarooWhat an absolute crock
What’s a “crock”?The Stars And Stripes? The poll?The interviewees, who said they’ve had enough of you keyboard kommandos’ prediliction for sending them out to die and get maimed to make the world safe for Sharia?
2 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:42:42 AM by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
To: Colonel KangarooThis is bull!. There is no way Veterans or Active Duty Military will vote for Obama. Many retired military people like myself are disenvhanted with the war in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t translate into a vote for Obama. Obama and the Democrats would “Gut” the military if they have their way. Veterans and Active Military aare for the most part conservatives and they will never vote for Obama.
5 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:46:38 AM by Old Retired Army Guy
To: Colonel KangarooThe veterans I know don’t favor Obama at all.
60 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 10:21:15 AM by rangerwife (Proud wife of a Purple Heart Recipient)
To: Colonel KangarooMy gut reaction is to call BS on this story but I’m not so sure I will. In 2008 there were polls saying that retired military and active duty wifes in the Tidewater VA area were going for obama in big numbers and I sais BS. But then obama won Virginia, he won Tidewater and he did what no democrat had done since Jimmy Carter…he won VA Beach. And he won VA Beach with the help of military spouses who were sick and tired of the war and the multiple tours of duty.
To: Da CoyoteI hope you guys are right but I live near Ft Hood and it’s very surprising how many Obama stickers I see on cars here. Not so much on soldiers cars but their family members. When you drive through neighborhoods you see them in the driveway.A huge percent of the Army is African American and many Puerta(sic) Rican.
To: Colonel KangarooMembers of the 1st Transvestite diversionary farce all agree.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Gruesome grab-bag II” edition”
GO GET THIS NOW. It’s mindblowing. I’m about 10 pages from the end right now, and practically ate the thing in the past three days. A. Continue reading Memorial Day Reading
GO GET THIS NOW. It’s mindblowing. I’m about 10 pages from the end right now, and practically ate the thing in the past three days. A. Continue reading Memorial Day Reading
We here at First Draft believe in recycling so I decided to repeat this Memorial Day post for the third year in a row. Just call it the trifecta: The veteran I’d like to remember on this solemn holiday is the late Sgt. Eddie Couvillion. My family tree is far too tangled and gnarly to describe here but suffice it to say that Eddie was my second father. He served in Europe during World War II, not in combat but in the Army Quartermaster Corps. In short, he was a supply Sergeant, one of those guys who won the war … Continue reading Memorial Day: Who I Remember
Good morning, gentle people – back to light duty, so a relatively short “Obsession” today.
Since itis Memorial Day, let’s lead off with the Freeperatis’ salute to the troops theyso profess to love.
Soldiers? RINOS!!!!
Veterans Favor Obama Over Romney – They’re Sick of War
The Auburn Journal ^| May 13, 2012 | “Over_L”Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:38:42 AM byColonel Kangaroo
YAY! The good Captain got a promotion!
(In related news, Mr. Green Jeans is now Corporal Green Jeans)
According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, veterans favor Obama over Romney by as much as seven percentage points. They favor cutting the defense budget. Read more…
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show “drooling over firearms,” as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, and an 1861 Springfield rifle from an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.
But when it comes to the 2012 presidential election, Master Sergeant McDowell is no hawk.
In South Carolina’s January primary, the one-time Reagan supporter voted for Ron Paul “because of his unchanging stand against overseas involvement.” In November, McDowell plans to vote for the candidate least likely to wage “knee-jerk reaction wars.”
Disaffection with the politics of shock and awe runs deep among men and women who have served in the military during the past decade of conflict. Only 32 percent think the war in Iraq ended successfully, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. And far more of them would pull out of Afghanistan than continue military operations there.
While the 2012 campaign today is dominated by economic and domestic issues, military concerns could easily jump to the fore. Nearly 90,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. Israeli politicians and their U.S. supporters debate over whether to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities as partisans bicker over proposed Pentagon budget cuts.
Mitt Romney has accused President Obama of “a dangerous course” in wanting to cut $1 trillion from the defense budget – although the administration’s actual proposal is a reduction of $487 billion over the next decade.
“We should not negotiate with the Taliban,” the former Massachusetts governor contends. “We should defeat the Taliban.” He has blamed Obama for “procrastination toward Iran” and advocates arming Syrian rebels.
Romney, along with his primary rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, had also accused Obama of “appeasement” toward U.S. enemies – a charge that drew a sharp Obama rebuttal. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who’ve been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement,” the president shot back. He has reproached GOP candidates: “Now is not the time for bluster.”
If the election were held today, Obama would win the veteran vote by as much as seven points over Romney, higher than his margin in the general population.
FADING COOL FACTOR
The GOP’s heated rhetoric, aimed at the party’s traditional hawks, might be expected to resonate with veterans. Yet in interviews in South Carolina, a military-friendly red state, many former soldiers expressed anger at the toll of a decade of war, questioned the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion, and worried that the surge in Afghanistan won’t make a difference in the long run.
“We looked real cool going into Iraq waving our guns,” said McDowell, 50, who retired from the 82d Airborne Division in November with a Legion of Merit and two Bronze Stars. “But people lost their lives, and it made no sense.”
Now he worries. “I really don’t like the direction we are going, how we seem to come closer daily towards a war with Iran.”
In Columbia, where McDowell lives in a leafy subdivision, the streets are named for American Revolutionary war heroes, and the Confederate battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds. Pizza parlors offer a 10 percent discount to uniformed soldiers from nearby Fort Jackson, one of eight military bases that pump $13 billion a year into the state’s economy.
In exit polls, a quarter of voters in January’s primary identified themselves as veterans.
Among them were Karen and Kelly Grafton, devout Southern Baptists who live in the small town of Prosperity, outside Columbia, and spend their vacations at Nascar races. They voted for Santorum.
“He just came off a little bit better than the others,” said Karen Grafton, 51, a real estate agent who served 20 years in the Air Force. “He stuck to his story about what he has done and what he will do.”
The Graftons’ votes, however, like many veterans’, can’t be taken as evidence of a hard-line military stance. Registered Republicans, they cast their ballots for Obama in 2008 because he promised to bring the troops home from Iraq.
“I went to war for George Bush,” said Grafton, 48, a retired Army master sergeant who served in special operations units in Somalia and Iraq. “But we can’t keep policing the world.”
Karen Grafton, a retired Air Force recruiter, said she’ll be “glad when we’re out of Afghanistan.” The military budget? “I’m sure it can be cut,” she said. “Everyone has to make concessions.” Still, many former soldiers worry that Pentagon cuts could mean stingier salaries, pensions, and education and housing benefits.
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I can’t believe that there is any great enthusiasm among our military for Obama on his own merits. But there may be evidence that the strain of a decade of war is being felt by an undermanned military.And some may view the amateur Obama’s shaky level of competence to be safer than some of Romney’s connections to some of the more bellicose foreign policy elements from the George W. Bush admistration.1 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:38:48 AM byColonel Kangaroo
To: Colonel KangarooWhat an absolute crock
What’s a “crock”?The Stars And Stripes? The poll?The interviewees, who said they’ve had enough of you keyboard kommandos’ prediliction for sending them out to die and get maimed to make the world safe for Sharia?
2 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:42:42 AM byclamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
To: Colonel KangarooThis is bull!. There is no way Veterans or Active Duty Military will vote for Obama. Many retired military people like myself are disenvhanted with the war in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t translate into a vote for Obama. Obama and the Democrats would “Gut” the military if they have their way. Veterans and Active Military aare for the most part conservatives and they will never vote for Obama.
5 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 8:46:38 AM byOld Retired Army Guy
To: Colonel KangarooThe veterans I know don’t favor Obama at all.
60 posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 10:21:15 AM byrangerwife (Proud wife of a Purple Heart Recipient)
To: Colonel KangarooMy gut reaction is to call BS on this story but I’m not so sure I will. In 2008 there were polls saying that retired military and active duty wifes in the Tidewater VA area were going for obama in big numbers and I sais BS. But then obama won Virginia, he won Tidewater and he did what no democrat had done since Jimmy Carter…he won VA Beach. And he won VA Beach with the help of military spouses who were sick and tired of the war and the multiple tours of duty.
To: Da CoyoteI hope you guys are right but I live near Ft Hood and it’s very surprising how many Obama stickers I see on cars here. Not so much on soldiers cars but their family members. When you drive through neighborhoods you see them in the driveway.A huge percent of the Army is African American and many Puerta(sic) Rican.
To: Colonel KangarooMembers of the 1st Transvestite diversionary farce all agree.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Gruesome grab-bag II” edition”
No post today, folks. Left knee and some loose-floating internal cartilage Have conspired to keep me not only hobbled, but at 7 out of 10 on the agony scale. I’ll be back next Monday unless I get fed up and take a saw to my left leg, or gnaw it off like a trapped wolf. I did make this, to express my feelings toward Mr. “Hey-I-should-beat-theJerimiah-Wright-dead-horse-because-I’m-a-moron” : Later, ya’ll. Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Bury my knee at wounded heart” edition
You’re about to die, and you get your last meal. What is it? Mine? Deep-dish pepperoni and sausage pizza from DeRango’s Pizzain Racine, Wis. Two inches thick and dripping with salty, spicy, heavenly tomato sauce and gooey cheese. Or a Lee’s sandwich. I don’t know what they put in those sandwiches. I was just talking to my dad the other day about how I bought all the ingredients to make the exact same sandwich at home, just a basic ham and turkey and cheese thing on Italian bread, with French dressing, and IT DIDN’T TASTE THE SAME AT ALL. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
David Simon, who I love as a storyteller: And this slow suicide — as the great Molly Ivins called it — will continue unabated until the industry swallows hard and takes its product — every last newspaper — behind a paywall. And if they don’t do that? If not, then it is the day of the “citizen journalist,” which is to say, the day of the amateur. And American institutions, or for that matter the world as a whole, will not be held accountable by individuals doing this as a hobby. Paywalls have nothing to do with what happened to … Continue reading Valuing Journalism: David Simon
The star of my current favorite show, Mad Men, raps to the theme music of one of my all-time favorite shows, Taxi. You haven’t lived until you hear Hamm do his Iggy impression: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Jon Hamm’s Taxi rap
The star of my current favorite show, Mad Men, raps to the theme music of one of my all-time favorite shows, Taxi. You haven’t lived until you hear Hamm do his Iggy impression: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Jon Hamm’s Taxi rap