Thers!

I show up 8 minutes in and get the 1, WTF?

Zed!

d’oh!

I want to know when the press started taking their cues from 80’s cartoons:

“Oh we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!
We do a little dance and we sing a little song.
If you ever disagree, it means that you are wrong.
Oh we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!”

Missed by THAT much.:)

Thersday!

fucking arsehole can’t admit that he was wrong without trying to blame someone else. fuck that shit and fuck him

Thersday!!

Bush Derangement Syndrome turned out to be believing in that sick and twisted motherfucker.

I posted this point on the other Ambinder thread, but I’ll do it again since it’s lost in EPU-land. A lot of fairly sensible people hold that view, including my wife, who’s no fan of Bush and company. The Bush administration was so far off the wall, that sensible criticism of it seemed to people who weren’t paying attention like it was crazy, and that’s how they interpret. Add to that the visceral dislike among ‘liberals’ of a certain generation (sadly mine), who blame them for McGovern (it would be fair enough to blame them for Humphrey’s defeat, but this never seems to come up). Ambinder may have picked this up by osmosis, since it is the Village cathechism. Everything that went wrong since 1968 was due to the hippies, who caused the mess in Chicago, and God knows what else. I think that belief is part of their identity. If so, it can never be eradicated except by the grim reaper.

Being conservative means never having to say your sorry or wrong. AKA IOKIYAR.

Godwin’s law violation straight out of the gate….
“No one will ask the victor, later, whether he has told the truth.”
-Adolf Hitler

I was polishing. If you’re going to say “asshole,” you need to make sure it’s grammatically correct.

Bush is an asshole. Ambinder is an asshole, too. But, since he couldn’t be bothered to tell us about Bush’s politicization of the alert system (not that we hadn’t figured it out) until there was a few million bucks in it for him, Tom Ridge gets my nomination for biggest asshole of the day.

Won’t even get a backassed admission from the rest of them fuckers.

Conservatism can never fail, you can only fail conservatism.

Orwell would be so proud.

why is it wrong to hate shrub anyway? I’m sorry. His own head of Homeland Security just said that he was ordered by the shrub WH to rig a US presidential election by trying to scare Americans witless purely for political gain. If I can’t hate a man who would order something like this done, if I was forced to treat such treasonous behavior as a mere civil policy disagreement, then I’d be forced to conclude that this country isn’t worth trying to save.

It’s all about the filthy lucre.

A few million bucks may not replace one’s soul, but apparently it’s a good topical cream.

Heh – good, a filthy foulmouthed blogger thread. Ahh, at last, home.

Speaking of grammatical shit, I complained at some point about seeing “an” preceding words like “historic.” The “h” isn’t silent (unless you’re from Yorkshire) so it should be preceded by the letter “a.” NOW I’m seeing “an” used before words starting with a hard consonant, like in an piece of shit article in Time I read earlier.

Ridge is a Republican, he never had a soul.

Why isn’t our children learning?

Just an unreasonable facsimile, which made him a bleeding heart liberal in the Bush/Cheney junta.

Hell, Dr. Mengele was a bleeding heart liberal by comparison to Darth.

I love the title of this post. It’s such a perfect summation of the Progressive problem with the right-wing- the fact that right and wrong exist and they so clearly love doing wrong.

Yes, there most often is a right and a wrong, but progressives need to learn and understand situation ethics, which is very not the same a cultural relativism, as conservatives like to paint it.

Publishers scrapped proofreaders back in the ’80s, editors in the ’90s. Things go to print without being read by anyone except the author. Good news for Maureen Dowd, I suppose.

We put food on ‘em. How canz they learn with all the food on ‘em?

Indeed.

better not say “punkass bitch”. you’ll get deleted.

Here, have some strawberry shortcake…

Would explain why McMegan, Doughy Pantload, and Armbinder get published. I still do not understand the late and unlamented Novak.

Elliott posted this link the other day, which sums it up in a nutshell.

Hint

The crazymaking part in the phrase “irrational Bush hatred” isn’t ‘hatred’, it’s ‘irrational’. Because in fact the hatred was absolutely, irrefutably, and indisputably rational.

Wow, just cited you in a comment and here you are. Neat trick.

Where’s the strawberry shortcake?

give it a break – flaming someone has always been not permitted. context – as evidenced by the fact this comment was not moderated.

Hey pups.

If you did not hate him either you were not paying attention or you were batshit crazy.

Ain’t human nature a bitch?

Novak, being a vampire, usually mentally dominated his editors so that they would pass the column on. Then he would feast on their tasty, tasty life essence.

As it happened, we had more than plenty of folks in each of those two camps…

[K goes and finds some red wine to fortify himself and continue blogging/commenting]

Hi you funny fuckers! [Suz, please arm me with tah link to the Mr. Tudball thing in case I need it. :) ]

My panel discussion on health care reform is coming along. I got a contact from PNHCP today, so the line up now looks like a survey statistician (your humble correspondent), a health care economist, one of the profs from our insurance program and a physician.

Jedi Sith mind tricks.

The indefinite article before words starting with h is actually a subject of heated debate. I’m agnostic myself.

I didn’t feel any joy at Novak’s passing, because I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, plus I have some sympathy for his family. Still, I have been relieved not to have witnessed any undeserved tributes. Suppose there will likely be some on Sundays talking assholes programs but I’ve been giving those a miss… for the safety of my TV.

Hmmm, what’s the difference between a dementor and a vampire, then?

Here’s for you.

I dunno, I…. oh wait, you weren’t talking to me were you?… ‘cept maybe subliminally… …slinking away now…

Cool. Hopefully you will make some headway against the rampant ignorance that infests our republic.

I just want Ambinder and his ilk to get on their hands and knees and lick clean the tombstone of Molly Ivins. That would be just penance.

oo can you fill us latecomers in?

You’re going to be discussing statistics? Without any reform, how high will insurance rates go in ten years?

I’ve been known to order an (ha!) herbal tea and a glass of chardonay. Mixed together, it makes a nice, relaxing after dinner beverage.

Many people drop the h in some words and not in others. “Huge” is one where many people drop it. Not me, I’m lazy in most other respects so I got to try an’ talk real GOOOD.

Ooo baby, you know how I like it… with a biscuit. Gracias!

mr turdball

And, some add the H. As in, Helvis.

Dementors and vampires are fake, like elves. And Eskimos.

Herb or ‘erb — when speaking about Basil?

May I offer an insight as to the indefinite article? The Greek Rule:

On hard “h” as in “heart” there is a break in between words, so to use the article “a.”

On soft “h”’s as in “herbal” use the article “an” as the liquid “n” should suffice for the break inbetween vowels.

There. I said it.

Helvis is when you get stuck in the middle of an Elvis impersonators convention in Vegas.

and BiPartisans?

I decided that there has been way too much heat and precious little light in the so-called debate about health care reform.

So I’ve talked with a couple of colleagues who also work around the health-care racket. They’ve agreed to sit on a panel for the university community. My Dean has agreed to sponsor the discussion.

I’m going to discuss the demographic and expenditures situation for the nation and New Mexico. The point is that doing nothing is a recipe for upcoming disaster.

I’m not sure what my colleagues are going to discuss yet.

@Suz – thanks hunny!

BiPartisans will logroll with anyone they find attractive.

Excellent topic. It’s far from clear to me that cost containment at the provider stage (as opposed to the insurance subscriber premium side) is addressed in the plan. Least not yet.

As in, what the helivis?
I think we just invented a new word. Ta da! I like it.

My favorite Elvis impersonator, George Tortelvis of Dread Zeppelin.

Ambinder, from the link:
“The evolving history of the Bush administration, we’ve come to learn, is complex.”

Edited for accuracy:
“The mental gymnastics, bullshit, and lies it will take to defend the Bush administration are complex.”

Fawlty?

That’s because it’s not being addressed. I’m hoping my economist colleague will discuss that aspect.

The fee-for-service reimbursement system is laden with perverse incentives.

Shorter Armbinder: Trying to defend the Bush administration and my support of it with out seeming a totally clueless tool just got more complex.

Not to mention the pharmaceutical industry.

Yah, that’s always been my opinion on the subject. IIRC, in the Time article I read earlier “an” preceded a word that started with the letter “c.”

Was it An Coulter?

Well, yeah.

It’s not like the whole “color coded terror alert” wasn’t totally absurd on it’s face, ya know!

But you did, but you did, and I thank you.

hard to believe there were only a dozen episodes.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death… I would not read an Coulter.

Most excellent, sir.

You know who was a hero to his community, though? The boy who cried wolf.

Here’s the color coded terror alert list from back then, funny – we haven’t had an alert since, well, back when Bush needed a boost for re-election.

dementors are like Blackwater mercs. Mindless, mercenary torturers in the employ of tyrants. vampires are the tyrants. All rethugs, from dementors all the way up the food chain to vamps, have the capacity to suck the soul out of you.

Don’t get me started. Most of the drugs that come onto the market are minor chemical variants of existing drugs. They’re either me too! drugs (e.g., Vioxx and Celebrex, or my personal favorite name Ansaid [Another Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug]), or compounds originally developed and put through early phase trials at the NIH (AZT is an excellent example of that), or minor chemical variants intended to renew patent protection.

So is for-profit health insurance. Profit is increased by denying services, not by providing them or by producing positive health outcomes. This is a perverse incentive since it works precisely contrary to the original basic idea of making affordable high quality health care available to everyone in the pool. Riddle me that.

Oh, that link didn’t work, but thanks. I’m in and out from the side yard where I’m planting some flowers. Believe it or not. It didn’t get That Hot today, but the air is sure taking its damn time getting cool tonight. I never planted this late in the day/night, but it kind of makes sense, I guess.

Quelle surprise, non?

I always thought the kid from the Emperor’s New Clothes fable was more likely to get the snot beaten out of him than anything else.

The Brits are much more inclined to do short high quality series and then exit at the top of their game. In the U.S. most popular sitcoms run until the ideas are completely exhausted and the audience drops off.

Cleese has said he would never do another sitcom because it would be impossible for him to match the quality of Fawlty Towers. Note, at least half the credit goes to his former wife and costar Connie Booth who cowrote every episode).

or sent to gitmo

That’s weird, it’s highlighted but doesn’t link to anything. Here it is again.

I’m on the single payer side, myself. I’d go along with a USNHS if (and only if) it were modeled on the VA system and not the Indian Health Service system.

I think there are serious moral problems with investor-owned providers and investor-owned insurers. Their fiduciary responsibility is necessarily to their shareholders rather than to their patients.

The color coding was always transparently ludicrous. “It’s orange! Omigod!”

Despite their grandiose claims that they need those ginormous profits to stimulate research, virtually all of the research is done on the government dime at universities and the NIH. They spend several times as much on marketing as on research.

Has anyone figured out any way to tie provider compensation primarily to positive health outcomes, rather than primarily to services provided?

I did some indoor planting tonight. Added a newly rooted stem cutting to a bare patch in one of my succulent dish gardens.

The American Office is actually better than the British Office.

Cleese? I had the day off and was running errands, my grocery shopping, my mother’s grocery shopping and so spent some time like that with my 15 year old. He’s was doing Mel Brooks’ quotes. I told him that nothing could hijack a thread like lines from Blazing Saddles or History of the World. Those AND Python’s Holy Grail.
Have you bull shitted today? No. Did you Try to bull shit today? Yes.

A big part of the problem is the shift in the insurance industry model which occurred in the 80s after they lost their shirts in the savings and loan collapse. Prior to that insurance companies only charged enough to cover their costs. Their profits came from investing the premiums, not the premiums themselves. Now they make much of their profit from their customers.

Whenever I saw one of those charts I thought a Gay Pride parade was headed my way. Still waiting.

It got outrageously hot here to day. All the way to 90 and we already had our allotted 5 days a year over 90 and it is supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. I am protesting to the authorities about that.

they even mock us with the names
case in point Nex[t]ium

I sort of missed the whole reality show trend so parodies of it are mostly wasted on me.

First he was waterboarded 83 times, before they finally got him to repudiate his claim that his emperor was walking around naked and to say that, in fact, the ruler was fully clothed in robes of pure gold. Then they sent him to gitmo.

she was a key part of it, to be sure

And that’s another thing that I’d do as part of the package. I’d have a section of the law that once again made it illegal to advertise drugs directly to patients.

Telling people to go have the Drug X conversation with their doctor isn’t helpful.

If Big Pharma was really doing the research that’s needed they’d be working their asses off on antibiotics. The last novel class of antibiotics were the cephalosporins, introduced in the 1980s. If When the bugs start exhibiting resistance to them, we are well-and-truly up the fecal creek without means of propulsion.

Oh, please doG! IHS really is the Goopers nightmare of what public health care looks like (my son was born in an IHS hospital). Of course it is also the fact that it is just another case of the feds fucking over the Indians and grotesquely underfunding Indian programs.

Oh, in that case I definitely want the insurance companies calling all the health care reform shots.

I loved the character Manuel from Barcelona and his pet Norwegian hamster Basil.

Connie Booth quit acting in 1995 and is now a psychotherapist. You don’t suppose being married to Cleese provided some pertinent background?

Yes. Hire them at group practices/HMOs/hospitals at salary. There was a segment on 60 Minutes on Sunday highlighting several of those.

Those (Nexium and Ansaid) are supposed to be inside jokes, but somehow they get out.

Disclaimer: Ansaid happens to be one that works particularly well for me. But since Naproxen became OTC, I don’t have to bother my physician with my bum ankle.

I’d have a section of the law that once again made it illegal to advertise drugs directly to patients…

Hell Yes.

Although British “Coupling” never did work as American “Coupling”

Yeah, sort of like having Dr. Mengele as your GP.

LOL!
what other outcome could there be …

yer bein nawty

hi elliott

For OTC meds, Aciphex should receive an award for most ludicrous product name.

Heading out, splendid night to all.

How the hell do you find that shit? Crazy, man. Do you think those guys are insurance salesmen during the day? Fun, but, wow.

Night, rf.

Yes, do that. And, report back to me what they say, please. But, it hasn’t been as hot as it was a couple of summers ago. Remember when you were telling us about your Cold Showers? Still makes me smile.

Adios RF! Avatque vale!

That makes sense. Let’s do that instead.

Dear gawd there musta been some sorta socialism-spewing rabies-carrying new names running around here today, teh stooped was just overwhelming…

Buenos noches, Señor

Exactly. Under our current system a doctor’s income is most highly correlated with the number of procedures her specialty performs. If you know how many of the procedures she has the training to perform you can do even better at predicting income.

That fact has worked synergistically with the outrageous price we’ve placed on medical training to produce lots and lots of secondary and tertiary specialists and not so many primary care types. I define primary broadly: Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Ob/Gyn.

The cognitive specialities (primarily in medicine: neurology is a good example, endocrinology is another) tend to be paid lower than more procedural specialities (surgery is the canonical example here.) And this, despite the fact that the training requirements are very similar.

If we reimburse the specialists handsomely but on salaried basis, we can save money to increase reimbursements to primary care.

If we don’t so something like that, nurse-practitioners are going to take over most primary care in the next 20 years or so.

Hunh?

Evening, alls. I is to sleep.

Guten nacht, Herr Ratfood.

The trolls today were not up to our standards. :)

Too true.

To sleeps good, Thers.

Maybe the ReGOoPlics are sending trolls again?

Wuh?

newtonusr thought it was Jane’s MSNBC appearance. That makes sense.

Back in the early ’90s I’d heard their album and had a ticket to see them when they played here. I heard an interview with George Tortelvis on the radio the afternoon before the show in which he said, “People say I might really be Elvis. I’m not, I just happen to look and sound EXACTLY like him.”

True, he does sound a lot like him. When they came onstage that night and I saw him for the first time, he was about 5′5″, 240 lbs with a cheesy black wig and black FELT sideburns. A 4″ wide vinyl belt with a big plastic buckle and a photo of the actual Elvis glued in the center. Hilarious, it reminded me of the store bought Halloween costumes when I was a kid. Great show, BTW.

Maybe I should be clear: I’m not convinced that nurses taking over primary care wouldn’t be a good thing.

Good night, Thers.

Sleep like an angel.

I guess my main issue is that by engaging with them, we collaborate in their mission to disrupt our discussions. So (everybody chime in now:) Don’t Feed the Troll.

g’nite…

Sweet dreams, Thers.

Should be quite a news dump tomorrow.

Yeah, that does make sense.

Sorry I missed it, but this was the first day of class, and Thursday is my big teaching day this semester.

One of our first year graduate students decided to skip my probability theory class today. I’ll be calling her attention to the error of her ways tomorrow.

I always think that when Miss Jane gets some run.
For all the trollage, I have noticed some new more like-minded names appearing, too.

FDL: Taking all comers.

Probability… error… there’s a joke in there somewhere.

It’s true. The family, it grows. Yay!

It’s a shame we don’t have some mechanism to filter out their posts. I wouldn’t want the mods doing it, but if I never read another post from XXXit will be way too soon.
MOD NOTE: edited to remove name of other commenter

Made the mister watch that video. Now, we’re listening to the Original. Sometimes I love hot summer nights. Get’s crazy. Planting flowers and listening to this stuff. Ain’t feeling so old tonight. Thanks.

Think I will take my leave as well. Did a 7 mile hike today with a 1200 foot elevation gain in the first half (second half all down hill). Kind of knackered.

I’m out too, gotta eat while I still can. Sweet dreams to one and all.

Well, I won’t anymore. :) ! Downthread I thought I was engaging in a real exchange, but evidently not.

Thankfully I do not start until a week from Monday. I really do not understand modern students. When I was in graduate school I literally would not have though to skip a class.

Okay, Madam/Monsieur Moderator, what did I say?

Me neither. Or show up late or not at all for work. What? Are we hooked into some moral imperative? Ha.

Grad school was like trying to drink from a firehose. Skipping class never occurred to me — in fact, if I was having trouble I was seeing my profs for help.

Good night, Dr. D.

using the name of another commenter in that way could be considered flaming. so i moderated your comment, removed the name of the person, and then freed it with a mod note.

Some here say don’t feed, but sometimes you can’t tell for a couple of back and forths. Some here say don’t feed, but then they are the first to call them out. Just what I’ve seen anyway. What do I know?

You know, I run into this at WORK! People won’t ask for help, which is really my function; I’m supposed to help and consult them out of their issues.

It’s weird to me, but people don’t like to ask for help. I personally don’t understand it, as I ask all the time for resource, clarification, etc.

For some reason, people think they’re supposed to be perfect. And that’s just not possible.

Here’s the video for Dread Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker.” Better quality than the first.

Oh, Dr.Dick!
Nor I, but it did happen today.

Okay, I’ll be nice.

The average income for a cardiologist is $450,000 per year. For an internist it is $250,000. A cardiologist does one or two years more training. Imagine what a surgeon makes.

My first husband, an internist, used to say “Surgeons don’t ask me to do surgery and I don’t ask them to think.”
(I think I have said this before on FDL. I have said almost everything I know before on FDL)

thanks bct – i fucking h-a-t-e moderating flame wars. they upset my delicate fucking disposition.

Yep. My daughter graduated with her masters in nursing on Sunday. That is her long term plan.

I’ll take all the help I can get. Why not? Ain’t perfect yet. God’s still working on me.

If you live long enough you learn to ask for help. Have to.

I will hold with my innocent belief that you know MORE.

Oh jeepers, does that mean I have to be adult-ish now.

{{{congratulations}}}

I never figured you for the delicate fading flower type. :)

Hopefully I did not upset your sensibilities on the SEIU thread. I actually changed to my real name (Actually can you help with that? I should be Kelly Canfield instead of KellyCDenver is possible) because of this very reason:

It works for me to use my real name to both inspire and constrain myself to say what I would say ANYWHERE to ANYONE. I’m not saying everybody should do that, I’m just saying that it works for me.

Seriously, I thought I was just using a well-known example of a troll. I’ll not do it in the future.

Hell no!
And, may I add my congratulations.
Damn girl, if we lived closer to each other, I’d ask you to go shopping for the MOB dress I have 6 weeks, or so, to find.

Very wise.

There are a few thinking surgeons. I’ve met one in my life. Most of them are like the guy who came rolling into my hospital room and said, “You don’t have appendicitis, but I’ll remove your appendix. Then when this happens again, they’ll know it’s not your appendix.”

He didn’t operate on me.

i was trying to insert some humor into the subject – hence the fucking delicate shit.

Just a couple more years she could have a PhD and be a nursing doctor.:-)

Congrats to you both. Did she get through the NP program along with the MNurs?

Thanks for that sentiment – but I should have thought of that a LONG TIME ago. I’m ok with knowing that now though.

And that makes me OK with incrementalism, but I know from experience that incrementalism also needs conviction too!

Or DrNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice), which appears to be the coming thing.

Physicians of the MD means Medical Diety type really hate that shit. Of course, physicians of that type tend to dislike me, too. Ph.D.’s are some lower life form to them.

You didn’t accept his “Rascher” opinion.

[sorry; punaise didn’t seem immediately available. :) ]

We all know you’re a shrinking floral type retired cop, Suz.

Nope. She went through a special excellerated program that took 18 months. She had to do a ton of prereqs though.
Here is a pic of that day.

He sounds like he may have worked as an auto mechanic at some point.

bitch with a badge. could go from zero to bitch in .03 nanaseconds. was called bitch so often that i responded as that was my name.

i am working on being a kinder and gentler person now that i am retired.

One advantage to being a doctor of say, anthropology versus an M.D. is you only study cadavers, you don’t create them.

Ok, an early Fuckity Fuck Thread!

I’m in!!!!!! *G*

It is working. :)

Fuck.That.

Having my appendix pulled wasn’t my idea of something to do for fun. Given that it was my second time in the hospital with that problem, my preference was for the problem to be found and fixed.

It did turn out to be appendicitis, a form called chronic appendicitis. The surgeon who pulled it told me that was probably what it was, but (like me) he figured it better to figure it out now. So he looked all through my abdomen with the laparoscope, and snagged the appendix while he was there. I was back on campus five days after surgery.

I was right: it wasn’t something to do for fun, but I did get it fixed.

“We don’t know what’ wrong, so we’re going to replace the fuel injectors and then we’ll know that’s not the problem.”

Really great shot. Pretty Mare. (Lookin’ good, hon.) Happy smiles all around.

Or what Lurk said.

sorry – that was in reply to bct

did i give you permission to speak? (/s)

I still gotta work on that kinder gentler thang

This One’s For Thers, N Suz. Don’t Hate Me.

*G*

That theory would hold that pathology is the ultimate medical specialty, no?

I have never thought of you that way, how you come across on the blog. You’re really quite genial in hosting the Late Nights. Hostess with Mostess, I say!

You’ve let me get away with piano whoring so much and been so nice about it.

Thanks. I am proud of them both.

I clocked that at .002 seconds…:)

I love it when you make my point for me, although it does not happen often

HAH!

Looks like a bunch of happy folks. Congrats again.

My DIL is fed up with the Army, and plans a return to college for a BSN a year from now. I’m looking forward to her pinning ceremony.

i forking love that song larue – i featured the non-cover of it either here or at my place

A nearly inexhaustible supply of patients anyway.

blowing smoke of my fingers

i still have it :)

I usually just pull out the duct tape.

I’ve considered going back and completing elementary school but y’know, when you try to pour a gallon of knowledge into a thimble for a brain something’s going to spill out.

ha. The last doctor visit most of us will make.

They favor you. Lucky them. :)

[clears throat]

So you learned Latin as a toddler? J’ACCUSE!

what a wunnerful pic mary mcc

It was a living language then. Did I mention being REALLY old?

Given my chosen profession, I tend to think that spreading knowledge is a good thing.

I’m not going to be there for that one.

S’okay if you’re a quicker picker-upper. I was a tad impervious to institutional learning.

Stultus Asinus! [silly donkey!]

Nunc dicebat me. [you never told me]

One of my pet peeves, hoss.

A v. An, and when to use it.

Also, your v. you’re.

And the list goes on and on.

Alas.

Fuckin twit’s can’t even schpell shit or ewese it praperli.

Sigh. Mi countreee tis uv theh.

Good night, folks.

Geebuz, and this from a collage professin.

It’s ‘being learnted’ for cryin out loud . . .

I’m sure by now many have called bullshit on you, but let me get in line.

Bullshit.

Pure full of bullshit.

“It’s like arguing with a dining room table.”

*G*

“Good news for Maureen Dowd, I suppose.”

FORKINOUCH!!!

That’s gotta leave a raised welt.

Dayamm . . . I bow to yer wow . . . teh snark runs deep in ya, Hoss.

BasAL! Not Basil. Rathbone. That is. Also.

“All this english and I can’t understand a word.”

-Larue, ‘09

They suck AND blow.

A great show and sad that it didn’t run longer . . . weren’t there two full seasons of 13?

One Of My All Time Favs.

CHEF!

Si. Verdad.

Senor.

Breaks my heart every time I hear this song.

Damn minor and modal stuff . . . *sniff*

It’s a doozy. Tim O’Brien has a full band version that will break yer heart every time ya hear it.

Full on acoustic joy. *G*

It was wrong to hate Shrub because you didn’t yet know that he was doing all those horrible things. See, you couldn’t possibly have known, because Marc Ambinder didn’t yet know.

Now that Ambinder knows about the politicization of the threat levels, it’s suddenly true. Before yesterday, it was all just Bush-bashing nonsense.