The Thin White Duke akaDavid Bowie has released his first new music in 10 years. It harkens back to the albums he recorded in Berlin during the late 1970’s before the Wall came down. Here’s the video: Continue reading Tuesday Night Music: Where Are We Now?
This is the *ultimate* ELO/Jeff Lynne song as performed in 2001: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Mr. Blue Sky
The Dead are known for their killer live performances and their mediocre studio albums. They did, however, cut a few good studio records and Mars Hotel is one of them. It’s a ballad heavy LP with 2 classic rockers in US Blues and Scarlet Begonias. It also has swell cover art, which can be seen below: Here’s the back cover, which confirms what we’ve all suspected about the Dead, they’re aliens: Here’s the whole consarn album via planet YouTube: Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel
During a discussion about something else entirely, Liprap mentioned water-walking badass voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, which sent me looking to see if her 1962 speech to the DNC credentials committee seeking to be seated as a delegate was online: SNCC had formed the MFDP to expand black voter registration and challenge the legitimacy of the state’s all-white Democratic Party. MFDP members arrived at the 1964 Democratic National Convention intent on unseating the official Mississippi delegation or, failing that, getting seated with them. On August 22, 1964, Hamer appeared before the convention’s credentials committee and told her story about … Continue reading ‘I didn’t try to register for you. I tried to register for me.’
We should be drug-testing these freeloaders. The soon-to-be-released study, “Nothing but Net Profit: Jerry Reinsdorf, Property Tax Relief, and Corporate School Reform on Chicago’s Near West Side,” says tax breaks the United Center received from the state have saved the owners tens of millions of dollars, in exchange for Reinsdorf and Bill Wirtz, then owner of the Blackhawks, agreeing to build it on their own without public financing. According to data CTU obtained from the Cook County Board of Review through the Freedom of Information Act, the United Center paid $8.5 million in property taxes for the six years from … Continue reading Corporate Welfare
I never expected to write about San Diego politics. I grew up in Northern California and visited San Diego just a few times over the years. Other than seeing Willie Mays hit his 600th career homer there, my memories are vague, fuzzy and dominated by images of retired squids and blue haired Republican ladies in tennis shoes as the old cliche goes. The only pol from San Diego I could name off the top of my head is former Mayor Pete Wilson who went on to the US Senate and then became the GOP Governor who turned the Golden State … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Bob Filner
God, armchair revolutionaries make me tired. 1776 will not commence again, because that would require that you give up your job that you hate and your family you don’t like very much and your fucking recliner and your Bugles filled with spray cheese and actually DO SOMETHING, and if you were capable of improving the world in any miniscule way you wouldn’t be such an angry fucking insect in the first place, and you wouldn’t need to use the prospective deaths of others to yob off in front of the world on national television to make yourself sound important. Fuck … Continue reading No It Won’t, You Fucking Poser-Loser … Ploser? We Need a New Word, That’s How Much This Guy Sucks.
Nagila means rejoice in Hebrew but the neo-cons and Vulcans are not rejoicing over Chuck Hagel’s being nominated as Secretary of Defense. They dislike the former Nebraska Senator because he dislikes war and isn’t a slavish worshipper of Bibi Netanyahu and his war-mongering right wing Israeli government. As far as I’m concerned those are excellent reasons to support the Hagel nomination: if Kristol and Bolton hate it, I like it. On a more serious note, I like the nomination because the former enlisted man appears ready to go to the Pentagon and start cutting the budget, which is imperative after … Continue reading Hagel Nagila
Since I posted the feature about this Joan Crawford scream fest on Sunday, it’s only fitting that it grace our fair blog for PFT. Additionally, I learned on Facebook that this film is a particular favorite of Tommy T’s, which is an even better reason to pick up an axe and don a Strait-Jacket: Here’s the trailer. Chop, chop: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Strait-Jacket
One of my all-time favorite non-fiction writers, Richard Ben Cramer, has died at the age of 62. Cramer wrote one of the best political books-What It Takes-as well as one of the best baseball books-Joe Dimaggio: The Hero’s Life-ever. He also wrote a lot of very amusing and very long sentences in his day. I’ll letJames Fallows of the Atlantic have the last word on the remarkable Mr. Cramer: I am shocked by the news just now that Richard Ben Cramer has died at age 62, of lung cancer. His bookWhat It Takes is the first book I tell anyone … Continue reading Richard Ben Cramer, R.I.P.
Last year the Alabama Crimson Tide destroyed my LSU Tigers in the BCS championship game. It’s Notre Dame’s turn this year. I tried sending out bad, bad, bad, bad vibrations but it didn’t work. I hate Alabama: the football team, the state, you name it, I hate it; especially the Tide’s humorless, Cosby sweater wearing, LSU quitting coach, Nick Saban. He is, however, a helluva football coach so hating him is futile. In the immortal words of Becker and Fagen, “They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama … Continue reading Deacon Blues
Good morning, everyone! I had a lot of abysmal aperitifs lined up, but then Ms. Wendy done gone and swept the entire tray off the table. Good for her.
The Freeperati? Not so much.
Texas state senator Wendy Davis filibusters her way to Democratic stardom
Washington Post ^
| 06/27/2013
| Karen Tumulty and Morgan Smith
Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:03:57 PM by SeekAndFind
Edited on Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:04:46 PM by Admin Moderator.
[history]
Wendy Davis strode onto the floor of the Texas Senate
chamber on Tuesday in rouge-red running shoes, and came off it early
Wednesday morning as the Democratic Party’s newest star.During 13 hours in between, the little-known legislator from Fort
Worth delivered a filibuster that electrified social media and stopped
passage of one of the nation’s toughest set of abortion restrictions in
the waning hours of a special session.
To: SeekAndFind
I figured she would be a Jabba the Mikulski clone but I was wrong
You misspelled “Phyllis the Schlafly”.
So – if the Senator puts on librarian glasses and fuck-me pumps, you’ll vote for her? You guys redefine “shallow”.
And you idiots still hoot and holler about “low information voters” (whenever you lose elections, of course), while thinking with your little heads?
If it were(sic) Sarah Palin, the media skanks would have not described a hero.
To: SeekAndFindShort lived fame. There will be another session. And her
anti-democracy pals who shouted during the vote to delay it after the
filibuster ended should be jailed.5
posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:13:35 PM
by a fool in paradise
(America 2013 – STUCK ON STUPID)
To: a fool in paradiseThey should’ve all been arrested as they left.Imagine if tea partiers did the same thing.
To: SeekAndFindShe broke the senate rules and had a bunch of people in the gallery
that caused the vote to be late. Typical dim behavior that prevented the
democratic process to be completed. Shout at the top of your lungs to
silence your opponents.
Other parts of my comment # * * self censored by Arrowhead1952 to save the mods any extra work.
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posted on Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:30:54 PM
by Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: SeekAndFindTexas state senator Wendy Davis filibusters her way to Democratic stardomTranslation: They have a new high priestess of baby sacrifice.The dark power’s (sic) they worship are surely pleased…
To: denniswI never understand why these libs are so quick to kill off their future constituents.
To: Buckeye McFrogIn her district, only 65% speak English.
To: Dalberg-ActonNo, that is incorrect, 72% in her district speak only English, that’s higher than the state as a whole, which is 65%.In her district 28% speak other than English at home (ie. Spanish
at home), of those, 20% speak English well, and 8% speak bad or no
English.So, basically her district is less hispanic than Texas as a whole,
which makes sense, if her district was heavily hispanic, I don’t think
she would have done what she did.Hispanics are not very big supporters
of abortion.
To: re_nortexShe looks a bit like actress Dyan Cannon on the downside
To: dennisw; AllLate last night, while channel surfing, I thought I came across
some late night porn channel… as here on my televison set there was
this shorthaired lesbian-looking chick that really sounded like she was
about to orgasm.Turned out it was just Rachel Maddow on MSLSD gushing over her new hero.
I still suspect she had a vibrator running under the newsdesk.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Right To Strife edition”
It comes from the preternaturally awesome Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon. Her take on the “founding fathers” is to die for: Popular poultry purveyor Chick-fil-A has a long and well documented history of support for “traditional,” man-lady marriage. But after Wednesday’s Supreme Court rulings, the company’s president, Dan Cathy, couldn’t resist sharing his observation, via Twitter, that it was a “Sad day for our nation, founding fathers would be ashamed of our generation to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies.” Yes, I am totally sure that self-described cougar chaser Ben Franklin, along with Thomas Jefferson, a … Continue reading Paragraph of the day
We’d fix this: My husband was also able to stay in the hospital every night with the baby, even when I couldn’t, so he always had a parent nearby, and brought him home when I was hurting too much to want to get in a car. He was able to do that because when he told his employer last Friday that the doctors thought the baby might need a week-long hospitalization, they offered him another week of paid leave on top of the four he was just finishing up.Most families in the United States aren’t nearly so lucky, as this … Continue reading If We Were a Pro-Life Society
Why, it’s giving poor people health care and taking care of them when their homes are flattened by nature, of course: What world are we living in? It’s a world in which we face three major challenges: responding to the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution, which is changing every job and workplace;dealing with our mounting debt and entitlement burdens, driven by steadily rising health care costs and unsustainable defined benefits; and, finally, developing energy sources that can grow the world economy without tipping it into disruptive climate change. (At one point last week, the Senate approved a … Continue reading What’s The Worst Thing Ever, Tom Friedman?
OK then – where were we?
Ah yes – the fabulous Freeperati. (I almost posted a movie review or a recipe before I remembered what my gig is).
Well, them Duke tabagger boys had gotten themselves into a terrible fix with Boss Sob, or was it the other way around?
(caution – if you have an election lasting more than 4 hours, see a physician immediately)
First there was this:
Congressmen Confirm That Boehner Will Either Resign Speakership Or Be Forced Out
Cybercast News Service.com ^
| 1/2/13
| Ron Meyer
Posted onWednesday, January 02, 2013 7:08:45 PM bydrewh
I have confirmed with a group of Congressmen that House Speaker John Boehner will not be reelected Speaker tomorrow.
He will either resign or be forced out tomorrow.
Only
17 members are needed to block Speaker Boehner’s election tomorrow. A
Speaker needs an absolute majority of all votes cast for a specific
person.If no one has a majority, the House is speakerless. I’ve confirmed these rules with the House Parliamentarian.
To: drewhGet rid of this freakin idiot socialist moron Boner.
tweet Republicans , tell them get rid of this creature or else we get rid of them
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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:11:48 PM
byDemocrat_media
(media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
To: HiTech RedNeckThe Speaker doesnt have to be a current member necessarily… (according to the constitution)
To: drewhFIRST THINGS FIRST…NEWT, THE BLEACHED BLOND SPOUSE HAS TO GO…
To: drewhIt won’t matter if the GOP-e just nominates another reliable
RINO.It might be why Alan West was gerrymandered out of his district.15
posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:16:39 PM
byPapaBear3625
(You don’t notice it’s a police state until the police come for you.)
To: drewhWhy get rid of one socialist to get an even worse one.Besides,
Gingrich is too busy crusading for climate change and same-sex marriage.
To: drewhI believe Congressman Louie Gohmert himself would make an excellant(sic) Speaker.
To: drewhThe fact that people are even talking about this means they are not
afraid of Bonehead.
The issue seems to be who will replace him.
To: penelopesire“Dittos!!… No Eric Cantor!… He is too sissified and rino in elephant clothes…”
There has always been something very womanly about him…Too
soft-spoken to be feared by opposition…Even the picture on Drudge
with Boehner which was the lead story today, he just looks like a, well
wuss…
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; …And if he doesn’t leave, FR will need a full time janitor for the blood that will shoot out of a lot of people’s eyes. :’)
Thanks drewh.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Boehner’s Big Election edition”
It’s one of my favorite books, but I decided I was over musicals a while back, and then the previews came out, and then Anne Hathaway who is my motherfucking homegirl, and I haven’t seen it on stage since high school, so hey, why not? Spoilers within. Continue reading EVERYONE TALK TO ME ABOUT LES MISERABLES
From the footstool, to the chair, to the stool, to the chair! It’s an old chair of my grandmother’s that I had re-upholstered, so I try not to let her chew on it too much, little nomming thing that she is. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging: Caire Makes Her Own Fun
A gentle reminder that hundreds of newspaperspay this man for his syndicated column, while the journalism industry as a whole whines that there is no money for journalism anymore. “I think what Boehner did in postponing the vote until today was absolutely right,” he said on “Special Report.” “That was a rape of the Treasury. $60 billion, including a ton of pork. The part that was essential that passed today was to replenish the flood insurance. That’s right, and the rest ought to be debated in regular order.” First of all, you know what is like rape? Rape. Everything else? … Continue reading Krauthammer’s Pork Rape
It’sa bit blurry but it’s the whole set Bryan, Phil and the gang played on Swedish teeevee. Yumpin’ yiminy: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Roxy Music Live in Sweden in 1976
As a sentimental old lefty, I give you the song that has been the anthem of the British Labour party forever. It was de-emphasized under Kinnock, scorned by Blair and Brown, and seems to be making a comeback under Ed Milliband: Continue reading Happy May Day
Journeyman NBA big man Jason Collins has come out of the closet becoming the first openly gay major sports player who wants to stay active. You’ll notice I’m putting a caveat on this still momentous announcement. Collins is an unsigned free agent who wants to play next year, but he’s a marginal player who played in 38 games last season hasn’t played in more than 49 game since 2008. I hate to be the skunk at this particular garden party but if Collins remains unsigned, he’s just the latest recently retired player to come out. Decent big men *are* hard … Continue reading Fuck Yeah, Jason Collins
This week’s entry is another one from the good people at Hipgnosis. I recall seeing this one when it first came out and buying the LP based on the cover. It worked out. I’ve had a long love affair with the songs of Difford and Tilbrook and the music of Squeeze. They are indeed cool for cats. I’m posting both the front and back covers since they’re equally,uh, cool: Here’s the official video of the title track, which is Oscar and Della’s theme song: Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Cool For Cats
It’s not news that a GOP Congresscritter elected in the 2010 teabagger wave election would vore against aid for Hurricane Sandy victims. It is, however, news when that malaka is from Biloxi, MS and his district was ground zero for Katrina.Here’s a statement from Congressman Steven Palazzo’s office: Congressman Palazzo fully supports a Sandy relief package that includes spending offsets. On the heels of a fiscal cliff deal that added $4 trillion to our existing $16 trillion national debt, we must ensure that disaster relief is paid for. He also hopes we will be able to have a much-needed national … Continue reading How soon they forget
Here’s a great joke: How do you know a 16-year-old girl is likely dead? “You don’t sleep through a wang in the butthole!” Wait, here’s a better one! How dead is a 16-year-old girl who was kidnapped by a group of high school classmates and repeatedly raped? “She’s deader than O.J.’s wife!” Have you stopped laughing yet? Then you’ll love this one: How hard did a group of high school football players, one by one, rape a girl after they had to physically carry her unconscious body from one party into their “rape crew” party? “They raped her harder than … Continue reading A really funny gang rape
Happy Easter, stuck-up assholes: There were certainly none of those trappings on display Thursday at the Casal del Marmo juvenile detention facility in Rome, where the 76-year-old Francis got down on his knees to wash and kiss the feet of 12 inmates, two of them women. The rite re-enacts Jesus’ washing of the feet of his 12 apostles during the Last Supper before his crucifixion, a sign of his love and service to them. The church’s liturgical law holds that only men can participate in the rite, given that Jesus’ apostles were all male. Priests and bishops have routinely petitioned … Continue reading Keep Annoying the Prigs, Holy Father
Speaking of guns, this song is a real pistol. Steve Earle swears it’s not about gun control but it’s unlikely to become the NRA’s anthem: Continue reading Friday Night Music: The Devil’s Right Hand
If this hadn’t been published on Saturday I’d swear it was an April Fool’s gag: Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted, there will be nothing to stop a straight person from exploiting the system in order to claim marital benefits. “You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,” Everhart said. “Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, … Continue reading Say what?
I seem to be turning into Athenae. If I only I could emulate her thin, girlish figure only manlier like Big John here: Via TPM. Continue reading Happy Kerry Photo: Futbol Edition
Yo, North Dakota. You’ve got a problem. Abig one. You’re a state full of bohunk, testosterone-fueled oil workers desperate for some female companionship. And your state legislature is treating women like slaves. Like objects. So, how’s that working for you, North Dakota? Let’s discuss. First of all, t wo bills banning abortion await the Governor of North Dakota’s signature today [UPDATE:they were signed into law by the governor today]. One bans abortion for all fetal abnormalities… … such as anencephaly in which parts of the brain and skull don’t form, or Tay-Sachs disease, a degenerative condition that paralyzes babies and … Continue reading North Dakota’s Anti-Woman Dystopian Horror Show
