Economist's View: Will health insurance exchanges work?
The Agonist: The morality of deliberate defaults
The Progressive Puppy: Aaron McKinney now says that Matthew Shepard "needed killing"
The Plum Line: Happy Hour Roundup
No More Mister Nice Blog: Emotionally, it works for him
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Needlenose, True/Slant, American Nihilist, The Daily Background
DownWithTyranny!: The international community expects real change and more than hope from Obama
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Simple links as simple answers to simple questions
Amygdala: Gary reports on the Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies
Advice Unasked: Eviscerating the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Breaking the Treasury Secretary
Democratic Strategist: Political Murder-Suicide?
The Pump Handle: Occupational Health News Roundup
TalkLeft: The Madman Theory of Political Bargaining
pandagon: "Stupid", "racist", and "scared" are not mutually exclusive categories
Sadly, No! But...but, John Mackey is nice to bunny rabbits
Minnesota Independent: Up is down. Michele Bachman to government...wait for it....Hands off my body!
Connecting.the.Dots: Obama's unwanted war
The Pump Handle: Occupational Health News Roundup
The Anonymous Liberal: The mistake of assuming the existence of GOP core principles, much less, intelligence
the Big Mattress: To the Tea Party People
The Reaction: It's called the free market and it's turned on Glenn Beck
Bob Minor: Will what professionals say about LGBT people finally matter?
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: KroydBlog, Paul Krugman Like a Father to Me, No Smoking in the Skull Cave, Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues
Here's an example of what "Patriots" consider good clean fun...certainly nothing that could be considered "extreme" or dangerous wingnuttery
The Confluence: Did Hank Paulson use TARP as a "ruse" to rescue Citigroup?
The Reaction: David Brooks backs Sotomayor - but still espouses the racist double standard of the right
Multi Medium: Self-Promotion Fail
Consortiumblog: Tying Obama to Bush's budget mess. Republicans blame President Obama for an ocean of red ink, but a study shows most came from President Bush
Progressive Blog Digest: All roundup, all the time
In this small world, Dr. George Tiller's long-time lawyer, Dan Monnat, has been one of my closest friends for over 40 years. Tiller's murder was American Taliban terrorism, period. We already know the identities of the killer's accomplices, and it isn't only media wingmutts and Christianist frauds that encourage violence. Our own David Neiwert has been writing about these "Eliminationists" for years. Time to stand up to cowards and extremists
Prairie Weather: Oops...maybe we'd better rethink universal healthcare
BAGnewsNotes: Sunday news show roundup
Mercury Rising: Some Good News
Discourse.net: Stark foreclosure data for 2009
Yusuf Islam, known to many as Cat Stevens, has joined Joe Satriani and the rest of the chorus claiming that Coldplay stole their music.
Really, guys. Trying to claim that you invented the IV-V-I-vi is like me saying it was my idea to eat tomatoes. I never thought the day would come when I took to the internet to defend Coldplay, but in this listener's opinion, every one of you, Coldplay, Cat Stevens, Joe Satriani, that little teeny band from New York that said Chris Martin saw you, all of you are just ripping off the "if you want to be happy for the rest of your life..." song. Well, probably not -- but trying to collect on the obvious melody that fits in perfect congruence with the most basic and rudimentary of chord changes? Come on.
Also, if I was the judge in Joe Satriani's lawsuit, I would throw the case out on the grounds that no one listens to Joe Satriani.
Anyways, here are the other comparisons. For good measure, I've thrown in the (horribly sexist) "if you want to be happy for the rest of your life" song that I first heard in the film Mermaids for good measure. Jimmy Soul should go sue the pants off all these clowns!
In-house, around-the-C&L-conference-table chit-chat: William K. Wolfrum has a lovely tribute to our own Mike Finnigan (of the blog roundup) here. And it ain't even his birthday.
Open Thread below...
