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There are days when I walk around with an idea for a post all day. The idea usually comes to me while I’m having coffee or feeding the cats in the morning and I turn it over and over in my mind for a few hours. Generally by the time I get to work, I’ve got a pretty good idea about what I’m going to say.

Some of you may not know what ProTools is. It’s a digital music-recording system that has all kinds of amazing applications and which has completely changed the way people record music. Unfortunately, it has given rise to the flagrant overuse of something called Auto-Tune, a program that a lot of studio types use to bolster the less-than-stellar vocal talents of certain modern pop-tarts because it can be used to

Oh, my goodness.

The Preznint seems to have arrived at a fairly novel diplomatic solution to the mess in Pakistan.

“I just spoke to President Musharraf before I came here, and my message was very plain, very easy to understand. And that is: The United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled and take your uniform off,” Mr Bush said.

Damn, George.

This song is everywhere now, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love it.

Actually, I love it more now than I did when I got the album.

Enjoy!

Something truly terrifying is happening over at Sadly, No! In a move that is being described by some as deeply courageous and by others as “totally the kind of thing that dorkwad Gavin would do”, blogger Gavin M is girding his loins for battle with a fearsome wingnut troll. He has done what so many of us in Lefty Blogistan would assuredly balk at.

Everybody make sure you go by Kevin Drum’s place and cast your vote for the Single Wingnuttiest Right Wing Blog Post of All Time. I believe that Mr. Drum has a point when he says:

But why focus on the all-time worst in the wingnut blogosphere anyway? Isn’t that mean? What’s driving this besides sheer bloody-mindedness?

History, that’s what.

What’s fascinating to me about the current mess in Pakistan is the position it puts the Bush Administration in. Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has done what Dick Cheney only dares to dream about in his most private, fevered, late night wank-fantasies; a complete and total suspension of civil liberties, the shredding of Pakistan’s Constitution, the imprisonment of opposition figures, and a total shut-down of all but government sponsored news on

More Roisin Murphy for a little Late Nite chair-dancing.

Fake, Apolitical Steven Boylan Real, Politicized Steven Boylan
(Compare and Contrast Illustrations courtesy of the bildungblog)Salon:In September, a person pretending to be Boylan attempted to rent a vacation cabin from Fred Humphrey, a retired English professor in Guilford, Vt. The cops foiled the plan; a $3,000 check that the fake Boylan wrote to Humphrey proved to be bogus.

Some of John Cole at Balloon-Juice’s former fellow travelers on the Right have taken violent exception to his decision to turn his back on the Republican Party. Let’s go now to Jules Crittenden, the Righty blogger who seems to exist just so that someone on the planet can be more viciously stupid than Dan Riehl.

Crittenen’s response to Mr.