All I can say is, I better hear good news on this vote: House tax break vote expected Thursday. I don’t advocate gridlock, and I’m tired of Partisan politics, but this is one of the things I think they need to stand firm on. If they cave on this for some stupid reason, I’m going to have to register as an Independent.
I’ve forgotten exactly how awesome Thievery Corporation’s DJ-Kicks compilation actually is. Go get it.
This is welcome news: Obama says he’s not caving on tax cuts. Of all the misguided, backwards-thinking and revisionist propaganda floated during the last election cycle, the idea that permanently shifting a majority of the tax burden away from the richest 2% of the population to the shoulders of the middle class is the least defensible. The Republican party is not the party of the conservative; it’s the party of the rich and entitled, and their only aim is to take more and give less.
Update: check out the second link. I don’t live in that big gray circle at the bottom, do you? Didn’t think so.
There’s an excellent series up on the Onion AV Club site now called Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation, which goes into the history and legacy of 90’s music—starting with the author’s unapologetic love of pre-Nevermind pop music and following the sea change afterwards. The third installment, Pearl Jam, the Perils of Fame, and the Trouble With Avoiding It, does a nice job of answering my long-standing question, what ever happened to those guys, and do I really give a shit? (answer: they faded away, and no).
File this under dream job: A warbird restoration and recovery outfit was called in to fly, drag, or haul an abandoned PV-2 Harpoon air tanker off a remote California airstrip. They flew in supplies, mechanics, fluids, and tools, overhauled the critical systems on-site, then flew the plane off the strip and back to their home base. 70-year-old planes being the fickle beasts they are, it’s amazing the pilot didn’t need an extra seat for his balls.
This is supremely creepy stuff, but fascinating. I will let that description stand on its own.
(hint: go forward to The Shining examples.)
File this under Oh Hell Yes: Mogwai announce new album, with the same producer from Young Team. And, their tour will bring them to the 9:30 Club in April of next year. This is a band I’d love to see live. With earplugs.
Crap. We missed Jalopyrama in Annapolis last weekend. It would have been awesome to go see this, even though we were completely booked both days.
Here’s a great little primer on letterpress from The Economist.
This is pretty messed up, when you stop to think about it: Anita Hill Asked to Apologize by Justice Thomas’s Wife. Lady, you’re nuts. If that’s an olive branch, I’d hate to see what your full apology looks like. Let it go.