friday reads

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Lessons of Endless War


Nancy Pelosi: Tool


Fernando Lugo will be inaugurated today as Paraguay's president.


The Daily Howler on MoDo.


Krugman: The Great Illusion


McCain campaign throws Social Security in the trash.

friday random ten

Photo by Ryan McManus



Kevään kurjet (Cranes of Spring)
Maria Kalaniemi
Bellow Poetry (2005)


Not Now
Meat Puppets
No Joke Demos, Session Two (1995)


A Time to Hear (Who's Listening)
The Art of Noise
Close (To the Edit) 7" (1984)


Trains Boats and Planes
Mean Red Spiders
Places You Call Home (1998)


The Well-Fed Point of View
McCarthy
Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today (1990)


Ticket to Spain
Cub
Come Out, Come Out (1994)


Walk Run Walk
Tangiers
2004-08-19, CBC Radio3 Studio Session


M
The Cure
2008-06-08, Austin


Young Americans
David Bowie
Young Americans (1975)


Tuna
Hooverphonic
Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)

Bonus tracks:


Stacy's Mom
Fountains of Wayne
Welcome Interstate Managers (2003)


Miss Happiness
Walt Mink
Miss Happiness (1992)

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thursday reads

Taliban, Al Qaeda Unchecked in Pakistan


Murder and attempted murder charges against seven New Orleans police officers, accused of shooting unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina, were tossed out by Criminal District Court Judge Raymond Bigelow, who concluded that an Orleans Parish prosecutor tainted the secrecy of the grand jury process by showing a piece of testimony to another officer.


Winter Patriot: The Entrapment Dividend: Setting A Few Knuckleheads Up, And Knocking The Rest Of Us Down


Denver gets ready for the dirty fucking hippies.

Amy Goodman: Don't Cage Dissent


Wal-Mart: Political Bully


Laser Gunships


Violet Blue: Olympic-sized sex records


Austin Real-Estatesman up for sale.


American Idiot

wednesday reads

A federal appeals court said Tuesday it would not resurrect a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against members of the Bush administration.


Scott Horton: The Mukasey Doctrine


'Martial Law' in Arkansas.


Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance

tuesday reads

Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.


Grits for Breakfast: Fort Worth seeks to reduce homelessness while Austin just wants to cover it up.


John Walbridge: Suskind on America's Declining Moral Authority


R.I.P. Satchmo


Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace)


Headline of the Day: Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at museum

monday reads

Economic Slump in U.S. to Worsen as Consumers Get `Squeezed'


China's 'protest pens'


StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up


David Swanson on inherent contempt.

sunday reads

Russian troops today took control of Tskhinvali, the ruined capital of the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia, after Georgian troops withdrew in the face of an overwhelming Russian counter-attack.


Chris Floyd - Marching Through Georgia: Cold War II Proxy Conflict Turns Hot, Marching Through Georgia II: The Kremlin Surge.


Fucking Bullshit Investigation


NBC's Olympics, Brought to You By Henry Kissinger


Video shows a mercenary of the oligarchy punching teen 13 times in the face, then tasering him.


Republicans: the party of stupid


Don't Be a Stranger - Mon-chi-chi