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Jan 01 2016
Rahm Must Go!
The Associated Press has released thousands of emails made available to them through a Freedom of Information request that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that dozens of people in Rahm Emanuel’s office along with others in the upper echelons of the Chicago Police Department, deliberately suppressed evidence of the Police murder of Laquan …
Jan 01 2016
127th Rose Parade
Happy New Year everybody! Perhaps I will reflect more on 2015 when I have time to do it, but I worked last night on another project for 3 more hours after a 19 hour day and I got about 5 hours of sleep, and here I am working again. The Rose Parade is much nicer …
Dec 31 2015
BCS Championship Semifinals: Michigan State University v. Alabama
> That’s the Michigan State University Marching Band at this year’s Big 10 Championships. They carry on in the great tradition of Leonard Falcone who not only wrote this fight song, but also the University of Michigan’s. I studied with him. He thought I was hopeless, but he was a good sport about it, didn’t …
Dec 31 2015
New Year’s Programming
It being New Year’s and all we have some special features coming up- tonight we will be live blogging the Michigan State v. Alabama game (go Spartans!) and have a festive celebration at midnight ET. We will also be live blogging tomorrow’s Rose Parade.
Dec 31 2015
Echos, not Choices
The piece below is David Dayen’s response to one in The Atlantic by Peter Beinart titled Why America Is Moving Left. I agree with David that “The public might be moving left, but the Democratic and Republican parties are not.” In fact public opinion is moving rapidly Left but the Neoliberal Washington Consensus is not …
Dec 30 2015
Holiday Rave 3
Of course we were semi-pro also. Did a number of weddings and 1 or 2 School Dances. Let me tell you there is no tougher crowd than kids. If it’s not in the Top 40 RIGHT NOW! they’re just not interested even if it was in the Top 40 last week. He got involved in …
Dec 30 2015
Dinner and a Movie
The Return of the Son of Sucky Blogging’s Revenge: Episode VII So can you believe I haven’t seen The Force Awakens yet? Neither can I. In any event I’m going out to dinner after that and I’m not sure when I’ll be back.
Dec 29 2015
Holiday Rave 2
In the late 80s my friend and I got into the DJ thing, mostly to advance our political careers with the club we were in. He had some new Bose 901s he was going to buy anyway and added a Soundcraftsman 500 W Amp and a really nice mixer board that crapped out after about …
Dec 29 2015
Stopped Clocks and Revolutionary Times
Cracks in the Liberal Order Ross Douthat, The New York Times DEC. 26, 2015 In the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the architecture of liberal modernity has looked relatively stable. Not flawless or wonderful or ideal, to be sure; not free of discontents and decadence. But it’s been hard to imagine …
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