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Crazy love

Posted on August 10, 2012 by oddmanout215

Bloody your hands on a cactus tree Wipe ’em on your dress and send it to me “Cactus” is by Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis, of the Pixies. Bowie’s studio version of the song is on his album Heathen.

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Wing nuts love Mom, too

Posted on May 13, 2012 by oddmanout215

Sara Robinson of Alternet had a good idea for a Mother’s Day column – “Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy” — but she got carried away and ended up arguing that Randian conservatism is, more than anything … Continue reading →

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Demon weed or regular fags?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by oddmanout215

Don’t tell the Department of Justice, but Ray Davies may have been substituting the rhyming slang term “Harry rag” for “marijuana cigarette.” But the song could just as easily be about regular cigarettes, or fags, as the Brits call them. … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan renounces his god, Ayn Rand

Posted on April 27, 2012 by oddmanout215

Paul Ryan renouncing Ayn Rand is like Peter denying Christ, except that Anne Rand was a batty old atheist who preached a self-serving “philosophy” called objectivism. ThinkProgress explains why the news of Ryan’s loss of faith seems so shocking at … Continue reading →

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Android, psycho CEO, or just a liar?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by oddmanout215

From Dr. Kevin Barrett, in Veterans Today: Is [Mitt] Romney a plastic shell, operated in real time by a gray alien equivalent of Karl Rove? Possibly. But it seems far more likely that he is, like [Ted] Bundy, an inhuman … Continue reading →

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Remind me again

Posted on April 21, 2012 by oddmanout215

You got my attention Go ahead, speak What was it you wanted When you were kissin’ my cheek? The lyrics are from “What Was It You Wanted,” on Oh Mercy! (1989), produced by Daniel Lanoir, who arguably helped pull Bob … Continue reading →

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Levon Helm dead at 71

Posted on April 19, 2012 by oddmanout215

Levon Helm, second from left, in the cover photo for the Band’s second album. From the L.A. Times’ music blog: Levon Helm, the widely respected and influential singer and drummer with the Band, whose Arkansas drawl colored the group’s signature … Continue reading →

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The logic of telling Christie-size lies

Posted on April 13, 2012 by oddmanout215

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. — Joseph Goebbels Paul Krugman likes to argue from the high ground, eschewing the sort of ad hominem attacks I can’t resist … Continue reading →

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Attention, couch potatoes: Walk for Christie

Posted on April 11, 2012 by oddmanout215

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is rangy and fast, a sinewy specimen of manhood, a champion of physical fitness who said yesterday that he fears America might become a “paternalistic entitlement society” populated not by hard workers but by “a … Continue reading →

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Shades of Mayor Richard J. Daley

Posted on April 5, 2012 by oddmanout215

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the man who once referred to progressive critics of “moderate” Democrats as “fucking retards.” Imagine what he thinks of the “Occupy Spring” crowd. Rahm helped put into place major restrictions in preparing for the G8 … Continue reading →

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