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Music Snob Edition


1. "I Don't Know If She's Worth 900 kr" - Jens Lekman [You Deserve Someone Better Than a Bum Like Me EP]


2. "Allons dans les bois" - Nicole Paquin [Ultra Chicks Volume 1 - Filles in the Garage!]


3. "Your Worst is the Best" - I Love You But I've Darkness [S/T EP]


4. "Innoculated City" - The Clash [Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg]


5. "Trip Over a B" - Worm is Green [Push Play]


6. "Free Again" - Teenage Fanclub [Deep Fried Fanclub]


7. "Bat Macumba" - Os Mutantes [Os Mutantes]


8. "Je m'ennuie" - Helene April [Ultra Chics Volume 5 - Chicks à Gogo!]


9. "Corona" - Minutemen [Double Nickels on the Dime]


10. "With or Without U2" - Jawbreaker [split single w/Jawbox]

Bonus #11: "Open Road" - Galaxie 500 [demo]

Countdown Special Comment

Keith Olberman

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies, that imperil us all.

"One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks," …you told us yesterday… "said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America."

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas Corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The Moral Force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush… they would be "the beginning of the end of America."

And did it even occur to you once sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 — that with only a little further shift in this world we now know — just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died —

Did it ever occur to you once, that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future President and a "competent tribunal" of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" for… and convene a Military Commission to try… not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

Video and transcript over at Crooks and Liars

Worst. Congress. Ever.

Rolling Stone

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.