I don't make a post for over a year, and I massively screw the pooch by triple posting.

Just shoot me.

Sorry gang.

As does Chuck Klosterman, who talks about the concept of Coldplay and Fake Love:

   Fake love is a very powerful thing. That girl who adored John Cusack once had the opportunity to spend a weekend with me in New York at the Waldorf-Astroia, but she elected to fly to Portland instead to see the first U.S. appearence by Coldplay, a British pop group whose success derives from their ability to write melodramatic alt-rock songs about fake love. It does not matter that coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band i've ever heard in my entire fucking life, or that they sound like a mediocre photocopy fo Travis (who sound like a mediocre photocopy of Radiohead), or that their greatest fucking artistic achievement is a video where their blandly attractive frontman walks on a beach on a cloudy fucking afternoon. None of that matters. What matters is that Coldplay manufactures fake love as frenetically as the Ford fucking Motor Complany manufactures Mustangs, and that's all this woman heard. "For you I bleed myself dry," sang their blockhead vocalist, brilliantly informing us that the stars in the sky are, in fact, yellow. How am I going to compete with that shit? That sleepy-eyed bozo isn't even making sense. He's just pouring fabricated emotions over four gloomy guitar chords, and it ends up sounding life love. And what does that mean? It means she flies to fucking Portland to hear two hours of amateurish U.K. hyperslop, and I sleep alone in a $270 hotel in Manhattan, and I hope Coldplay gets fucking dropped by fucking EMI and ends up like the Stone fucking Roses, who were actually a much better fucking band, all things considered.

hahahah!
To hear Coldplay, who are the equivalent of Cheez whiz in the music world to me, explained like that made me realize that this dude is awesome!

more:

"Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they're probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing and Monica Gellar. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake..."

Sorry Todd, i'm a music snob or something. :(

COUNTERATTACK.

Equal rights amendment, proposition reform, then after that has passed 2/3 majority to change the constitution.

observeth

you are the one dessert that tempts me so.

The Chief of Staff doesn't set policy, the Chief of Staff twists arms and makes the sausage.
Rahm is PERFECT for this role, and it takes him out of the House Leadership line of succession.

Love him or hate him, he may be a sonovabitch, but he's OUR sonovabitch, and he brooks no TomFoolery.

Good on him, President Obama wll not be bossed around.

I can't believe you people! You give up so damn easy on everything, EVEN WHEN WE WIN!

KO can get pretty heavy handed, but the way it was played you would think he was the left's version of O'Reilly, he's not.

He clearly voices opinions, but not in a way that is so blatantly misleading like Bill O'.

This is yet another example of how we are so damn eager to toss anybody who rises to any prominence and spreads opinions to the wolves, while the Republicans circle the wagons.

If this would have actually been funny, I'd be into it.

I don't really see where KO needs to be treated with such heavy handed "satire"

the special comment was pretty good, but maaaaan, the rest of it was just tedious to me.

Affleck did a decent enough job though.

I guess since I supported Obama in the primaries i'm not so eager to see him torn down, eh?

CAN WE PLEASE STOP USING THE WORD MAVERICK?!?

Next time I eat my Freedom Fries in a Maverick style.

reinforces and balances.

and may I say, now that the primary wars are over, it's kind of awesome to be able to have that here again.

This is manufactured outrage, helped out by the media Heathers trying to turn it into "swiftboating", Clark has said this before, it is no less true now.

It will die down, and it could help with the Overton Window of changing how people think of McCain's service.

Normally i'd be against mentioning such things, but McCain seems to be basing his campaign on it.

I was going to mention that but DDay beat me to it.
As he said it's not the reddest, but it's the reddest that we have a SOLID chance of winning.

Charlie is a rising star in the CA Democratic Party and his near miss last cycle caught the attention of the DCCC.

Still, it's an uphill battle to be sure.

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that wasn't obvious to me at all, was it obvious to everybody else?

secondly: acting.

The one part of liberalism that I find abhorrent is the absolute lack of a sense of humor.

That was actually alright, pretty funny, especially for a non actor.

We lose the ability to call BS on the right when they can't recognize satire and fiction if we too do the same.

Can't have it both ways.

McCain's ethos is tired and old and he is wrong for the country, we don't need to hit him on this banal SNL stuff. (which again, at least elicited a chuckle from me)