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by John Cole|  June 14, 20118:25 pm| 77 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    June 14, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    What do Anthony weiner and jane hamsher have in common? they both drive unregistered cars. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/06/13/2011-06-13_dmv_sez_his_suv_unregistered.html

    That’s so rebellious.

  2. 2.

    NobodySpecial

    June 14, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    Havlat what?

  3. 3.

    WereBear

    June 14, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Tristan is nine months old now!

    He’s quite the wild looking boy

    Wasn’t too long ago that he was so tiny! Sigh

  4. 4.

    MonkeyBoy

    June 14, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Newtster’s Amazon tags for his new book.

  5. 5.

    srv

    June 14, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Biden says the way to growth is cutting the deficit – 1 Trillion dollars baby!

    Geithner is going to kill us all. This blog and my FB are filled with newly unemployed. Even Summers has given up parroting the crazy.

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff): Hey, I just figured it out… You don’t care for Weiner, right? Give it a fucking rest. You are boring the living shit out of everyone.

  7. 7.

    Joseph Nobles

    June 14, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Heinous lie about Rick Santorum making the rounds on Twitter. His wife’s miscarriage was not an abortion. Nasty, bitter stuff. Santorum’s bad enough without making up stuff.

  8. 8.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: What’s up LT?

  9. 9.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    June 14, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: just wait until he resigns this friday, the blogosphere will be on fire with boring weiner posts.

  10. 10.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 14, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @WereBear:

    Oooh! Tristan is a young man! [American tabbies mature so early.]

    Very pretty, son. Very pretty.

  11. 11.

    Warren Terra

    June 14, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff):
    Not that I greatly care, but according to your own link the car’s registration is current. He put the wrong license plate on the car – a customized “US Congress 9” plate instead of its proper plate. That’s vain, and probably illegal, but it’s not the offense you accuse him of.

  12. 12.

    lamh34

    June 14, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Seriously…WTF!!!!

    Wow, just wow!!!

    ‘Give Us Your Cash, Bitch,’ the Year’s Most Racist Campaign Ad

  13. 13.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 14, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @Joseph Nobles:

    You’re right. Definitely should be off limits.

  14. 14.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 14, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @lamh34:

    Wow. Racist and tasteless and fear-mongering and . . . .

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @stuckinred: Not much, just back from my 25th college reunion. Very tired. Mme Omnibus is packing up to move to NY. I am getting ready for job interviews this week. Things like that.

  16. 16.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Hang tough bro.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    @stuckinred: FIDO.

  18. 18.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    June 14, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    @Warren Terra: I gave him a break, what he actually did is odder, to say the least. It’s one thing to ignore your yearly registration fees, quite another to switch plates. And let’s remember, he’s a congressman, not some ditzy blogger, he has a greater responsibility to follow laws.

  19. 19.

    Roger Moore

    June 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @lamh34:
    They just can’t help themselves. I think it’s one more symptom of ODS.

  20. 20.

    lamh34

    June 14, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: is so post-racial ain’t it?

  21. 21.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: There it is.

  22. 22.

    El Cid

    June 14, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    America is saved again.

    WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House of Representatives is poised to pass, as early as Wednesday, a sweeping spending bill that would slash funding for the regulatory agency responsible for policing against excessive speculation and price manipulation in oil markets.
    __
    House members are expected to approve an agriculture spending bill that would deeply cut the annual bill that funds the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trading in oil, grains and other commodities.
    __
    The House bill would provide $171.9 million for the agency, a decrease of about $30 million from the $202.2 million given to the agency the prior year.

    The argument is that it isn’t about speculating on oil which is really difficult to see how it because of supply and storage etc, but among the financial ‘instruments’ we know and love as swaps and derivatives — and why would anyone want any regulatory oversight for those?

    Among those powers is regulating, for the first time, the complex over-the-counter market, where private parties enter into secret bets, called swaps, on movements in the price of oil and other commodities.
    __
    These so-called dark markets are seven times as large as the regulated futures market, where contracts for future delivery of oil are traded. CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler says he now oversees seven times as much territory as the CFTC did before Dodd-Frank and must have a bigger budget to protect the public from market fraud and manipulation…
    __
    …Oil prices are now hovering just below $100 a barrel, even as the United States and other developing nations are seeing weak demand for oil because of sluggish economies. This price volatility happened during a period when financial investors reversed a longstanding trend and now make up to 88 percent of all oil trades, pushing end users of oil to the sidelines.

    However, this is wrong, because the Republicans have got their most brilliant analyst on the case.

    Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., who’s shepherding the spending bill, cited a Democratic commissioner of the CFTC, Michael Dunn, as saying there’s been no proof that excessive speculation has driven up oil prices.
    __
    “The discussion of the CFTC and oil speculators is a red herring. The real issue that the Democrats have failed to address is drilling for oil in order to increase the supply,” Kingston said on the House floor.

    The way to take care of pricing in a situation of weak demand is to allow for more drilling because obviously what happens when demand is down is that suppliers increase supply, so low demand can then be followed by lower prices, if all goes well.

    You see, you have to be an expert on how supply & demand works in order to realize the inverse correlation between supply and demand.

    Meanwhile, French President Sarkozy is a fucking god-damned Communist.

    BRUSSELS—French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday ramped up calls for increased regulation of the trading of commodities such as oil, wheat and copper, invoking countries’ fight against the mafia in a rare speech to policy makers here…
    __
    …In the speech at an EU conference on raw materials and commodities, he called on the European Union to follow the U.S. in passing tough financial-market legislation. In particular, Mr. Sarkozy called for minimum cash deposits for derivatives trades, a central global registry for all commodities trades, and drafting new rules against “market abuse,” although it remains unclear how exactly that is to be defined.
    __
    He took aim at trading houses like Glencore International AG, whose initial public offering earlier this year set a record. Without naming the company, he said a record $60 billion IPO this year for “a leading commodities trading concern” was “an emblematic episode” illustrating how trading of raw materials through financial contracts had expanded in recent years.
    __
    He said the “gap between the reality of physical markets and that of financial markets has widened” and blamed this “financialization” phenomenon for bringing the world “to the edge of a precipice.”…
    __
    …European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Christine Lagarde, French finance minister and prospective International Monetary Fund Managing Director, sat in the front row… Mr. Sarkozy lectured Mr. Barroso “as if he were a student.”

    At this stage, his Manchurian training by ACORN kicks in.

    The EU, he said, should “be inspired by what the U.S. already has done.” Last summer, U.S. legislators passed the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, which consolidated regulatory agencies, forced more derivatives trading onto exchanges and tightened regulation of credit-rating firms.
    __
    Mr. Sarkozy wants the EU to go further, especially in regulating what he called speculation.
    __
    “In oil, the size of financial markets is currently 35 times that of the physical market,” he said on Tuesday, his voice rising.
    __
    “In agricultural raw materials, on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange alone the total of derivatives annually exchanged is 46 times the world production of wheat.” This, he said, “is not how a market economy should function, and we need to act.”
    __
    “The determination [to regulate financial markets and trading houses] by France is total. I hear that we need fair competition between financial markets, and that we [shouldn’t regulate too much]. I know this argument.
    __
    “But let me ask a question: Should we all give up fighting the mafia just because one country fails to fight the mafia?
    __
    “If a country has a deficit in one regulation, does the world have to follow that country?”

    How did a Kenyan Muslim without a burf certifat become President of France without us knowing it?

  23. 23.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 14, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    @lamh34:

    Do you think that post-racial will actually arrive? Ever?

  24. 24.

    eemom

    June 14, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    extremely bad news in Wisconsin
    http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/123859034.html

  25. 25.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: Not as long as there are people.

  26. 26.

    PurpleGirl

    June 14, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Has Kay gotten to Net Roots yet? John Cole: Have you heard from her?

  27. 27.

    jwb

    June 14, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    @Warren Terra: Mike Kay inaccurate? Who would have guessed?

  28. 28.

    lamh34

    June 14, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    that’s an easy question…hell no.

  29. 29.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Rachel has a gay republican presidential candidate on.

  30. 30.

    wobblybits

    June 14, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @stuckinred: It’s why I prefer the company of animals to people most of the time.

  31. 31.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 14, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @lamh34: Yeah, I saw that on the other thread. So it’s not the campaign itself, but a “Super PAC” that just got official last Monday, one that can raise as much money as it wants without telling anybody anything about how much they have, what they’ve spent or where it came from? One that can’t legally endorse federal candidates and keep that status?

    Then what the fuck is this? Is the loophole “Oh, we’re just telling people how BAD this woman is, but we’re not ENDORSING anybody?”

    If Assange or Anonymous or groups like that really want to do the world some good “for the lolz,” the “lolz” would never stop if they got to picking through these dumb fuckers. Wonder where that money trail stops?

  32. 32.

    aisce

    June 14, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @lamh34:

    wow. just wow. but are we sure that wasn’t a prank video or something?

    because the racist and misogyny are completely expected, of course, but even i can’t imagine professional republican admakers putting “suck it mccain-feingold” in something that was meant for serious consumption.

    eh, you know what? fuck it. i’m surprised by nothing anymore. it’s probably legitimate. the only difference between the gop and the kkk is a fondness for public lynchings at this point.

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    keep hammering away mike kay. someday internet progs are gonna face up to their own latent racism and realize there’s a real progressive icon in the white house doing the people’s work like a real man and not a attention-starved clown. weiner. dean. edwards. grayson. all these phonies running their mouths and self-destructing at every turn. it’s a joy to see.

  33. 33.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    @wobblybits: Oh yea.

  34. 34.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Chickasaw Muddpuppies and Guadalcanal Diary saturday night at Athfest!

  35. 35.

    lamh34

    June 14, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    @aisce:

    according to TPM it’s real

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/in-ca-36-democrat-calls-for-blanket-condemnation-of-stunning-new-web-ad-video.php?ref=fpblg

  36. 36.

    MikeJ

    June 14, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    @stuckinred: Goddamn. Add Love Tractor and you have a great night from when I was in college.

  37. 37.

    jl

    June 14, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    Looks like Cole has created yet another Balloon-Juice blog scandal.

    What happened with the pasta with stuff mixed in it?

    And pics?

    This will require an epic blogger ethics panel.

  38. 38.

    El Cid

    June 14, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @lamh34: I think they actually face the risk that this song becomes a hit, and not necessarily among the intended audience. It’s pretty catchy. It’s library background music compared to most gangsta rap.

    But the icing on the cake is that it also uses the ‘demon sheep’ motif.

  39. 39.

    Joel

    June 14, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Ladd Erlinger Jr. sounds like a porn name.

  40. 40.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    @MikeJ: Here’s the schedule for the free stuff.

    and Rhett’s FB with lots of old pics
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1186295518&sk=photos

  41. 41.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 14, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    @stuckinred: Brother, I’ll tell you the truth, back in the late 80s, early 90s, going to concerts and dancing in public and listening to music the likes I will NEVER hear again … remembering it puts me of a mind of Walt Whitman: “Oh me, oh life …”

    But now? I don’t know that I’m not getting downright agoraphobic in my old age. Just the thought of being around crowds of people and getting jostled now just fills me with dread for some reason. I’ve been to one Georgia game in the last five years, the Arizona State Monsoon game, and that did nothing to make me feel better about crowds, I can assure you.

    In this day and age, if it’s a priority for you, there’s nothing to keep you from having a fine stereo and television. And I can’t think of a game or a concert I’d enjoy more if I were actually there than I would in my own home, where I can scream or dance as I please.

  42. 42.

    Violet

    June 14, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    @El Cid:
    It really is unfreakingbelievable. I can’t believe that sort of thing is allowed to be part of a campaign. I know, I know, free speech, Citizens United, blah, blah, blah. It’s still utterly awful. Whoever made it is just immoral.

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    @aisce: Excuse me?

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    June 14, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    @lamh34: I’m just amazed

    And there’s this:

    On his website, Ehlinger preemptively refuted charges that the ad is racist:
    __
    ~Before you charge racism at the ad, consider her one line in the video: “It takes a different kind of person to speak the language.” By that she means, it takes black people to talk to black people.~

    I just don’t know what to say, except I’m surprised someone this stupid can feed themselves, much less edit video.

  45. 45.

    Sad Iron

    June 14, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Scott Walker just flushed Wisconsin down the toilet. See, that’s me, the state worker swirling around the bowl. Thank goodness there are no activist conservative judges to completely take a dump on everything decent in the world. I did, however, have a few nice brats for dinner.

  46. 46.

    El Cid

    June 14, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    @Violet: I’m not kidding — I really think it’s possible that this song will be a hit among the same black youth it’s intending to scare the Oldwhites with. And not just black youth, either. You wait.

  47. 47.

    James E. Powell

    June 14, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    @eemom:

    Is this really bad news? Wasn’t it a forgone conclusion after the Wisconsin supreme court loss?

    Isn’t this a way to keep the fires burning for the recall elections?

  48. 48.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 14, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    @MikeJ: I was at the first Athens Music Fest. The Squalls. Love Tractor. Kilkenny Cats. Vic Chesnutt. The great coming-out of the Indigo Girls with Michael Stipe accompanying them. Good times, good times.

    Still wouldn’t go out and do it today, though. About the only concert I’d go to now would be one where the expectation where you sat the fuck down and stayed quiet and just listened, and saved your cheering and clapping for the end of the song. Weird and unfortunate, yes, but nevertheless the way it is.

  49. 49.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner: Dawg you are preaching to the choir except I’m 20 years older than you. We’ll go down Saturday night with the pups like we always do but that’s about it. We do about one concert a year, Santana/Windwood last year. I go to football games but I have it figured out so it’s fairly painless. I actually went to the ASU game at the half, the princess rarely goes so she just drives me close and I hoof a bit.

    You know Vic Varney?

  50. 50.

    Alex S.

    June 14, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    @lamh34:

    The guys who made this must have watched too much South Park. The rap is from the South Park episode ‘You got f’ed in the A’ and ‘You know what I’m saying’ was quoted because this line was used heavily in the episode ‘Butters’ Bottom Bitch’. Not that this makes it good or anything, I just found it interesting.

  51. 51.

    MikeJ

    June 14, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    @stuckinred: Kevin Kinney! He and I, uhm, I guess you would say, “went out with”, the same girl back in the dark ages.

  52. 52.

    El Cid

    June 14, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    @WereBear: I think it’s a good thing he doesn’t normally go anywhere near the sorts of areas where young black people would be found.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    @James E. Powell: There are other court challenges pending as well. Nevertheless, the permanent injunction going away is bad news. The GOP now has a chance to do some damage. Fuckers.

  54. 54.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    @MikeJ: I liked their music.

  55. 55.

    WereBear

    June 14, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    @El Cid: Methinks another viral web video is in order, then.

    He can run, but he can’t hide.

  56. 56.

    Violet

    June 14, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    @El Cid:
    Yeah, I think it could be auto-tuned and maybe the Taiwanese animators will have a go at it. Could be a viral hit/meme thing, like keyboard cat or something. It’s definitely catchy.

  57. 57.

    Linda Featheringill

    June 14, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    @Alex S.:

    From South Park:

    Really? Do you think we could rustle up a copyright infringement or something?

  58. 58.

    jwb

    June 14, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    @Sad Iron: You can afford brats? They’re clearly paying you too much.

  59. 59.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    In other news the Army is junking those stupid fuckin berets.

  60. 60.

    Alex S.

    June 14, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    @Linda Featheringill:

    Nah, it’s just a few lines and the South Park guys aren’t big on lawsuits anyway. You can view all episodes on their website for free.

    Here’s the rap I mentioned:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQE1JBDzabU
    The same rhythm, but different lyrics.

    Here’s a clip from ‘Butter’s Bottom Bitch’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpNkeyPXFs

  61. 61.

    Sad Iron

    June 14, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @jwb: Well, sort of–they were stuffed with styrofoam, which is actually ok with a spicy mustard.

  62. 62.

    Uncle Glenny

    June 14, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    @lamh34: WTF!

    Evolved Deep Southerner already said what I was thinking.

    —-

    Apropos some topics earlier today, if anyone’s heard of the mail order spice shop (now with storefronts) penzeys.com – they started a glossy magazine a few years back. They come off as one of these aw-shucks The walton’skind of places.

    In their premier issue of the magazines one of the families shown was a gay male couple with adopted kids.

  63. 63.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    June 14, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    @stuckinred: really, I always thought they looked sharp http://savvysheitels.com/zcart/images/105beret30016.jpg

    They’re even Iconic

    http://www.corbisimages.com/images/BE026377.jpg?size=67&uid=5570e0fc-f3a4-4b3a-97bc-d2582b09e6ba&uniqID=9d4e00cf-32eb-4a3f-bc73-5b47418a0c1f

  64. 64.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff): They belong on SF’ers

  65. 65.

    Ron

    June 14, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Can anyone answer this question? The media is reporting that NY needs to get 32 votes for marriage equality to pass it in the senate. There are 62 state senators. In the case of a 31-31 tie, AFAIK the Lt. Gov. breaks the tie. So why wouldn’t the democratic lt. gov. vote to break the tie in favor of equality?

  66. 66.

    stuckinred

    June 14, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff): Here’s me with my favorite cover!

  67. 67.

    eemom

    June 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    There are other court challenges pending as well.

    but they’ll all lose now that fucking Prosser is still on the Court, right? Or is there some other possible outcome?

    Anyway, welcome to membership in the Residents of States Where Fucking Idiots Do Most of the Voting Club.

  68. 68.

    eemom

    June 14, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    @stuckinred:

    is that at OBX? Whereabouts?

    We love the place, go there almost every summer.

  69. 69.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 14, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    @eemom: Not necessarily. My hope is the other challenges can tie everything up until recalls have their effect.

    Gotta bet big on the recalls now.

  70. 70.

    Uncle Glenny

    June 14, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    At the Turn Right USA web site, they are quite upfront that they are going after Janice Hahn.

    I guess that means they’re not endorsing anyone.

  71. 71.

    Warren Terra

    June 14, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    @stuckinred:

    In other news the Army is junking those stupid fuckin berets.

    I don’t have a strong feeling about those berets in their own right, but I remember that they were introduced at the height of Dubya’s chickenhawkery, back in the Padded Flightsuit era, when our boys were getting blown up in Iraq, getting Stop-Lossed to a fare-thee-well, and the national guard was up to its armpits in Iraq tours whose durations of overseas deployment were timed just exactly long enough to deny them full benefits. So I always hated them for the fake-patriotism, Lee-Greenwood-soundtracked way they were sold.

  72. 72.

    Jade Jordan

    June 14, 2011 at 10:26 pm

    Not So Fast John Cole, I smell a rat. What are you eating? What are the girls doing? Has Tunch escaped? Have you broken or cracked any body parts? What the hell are the Eers doing? How is Pittsburg going to win the super bowl?

    I hate it when you don’t over share.

  73. 73.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 14, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    @eemom: Can it not be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, or the Federal Circuit Court that governs Wisconsin? It might be lost at those levels, but wouldn’t that be a holding action until we see whether the recall folks have the votes? Perhaps even until Walker himself was eligible for the same honor? Or have I been reading the TPM commenters too much?

  74. 74.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    June 14, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    OK, now, I smell some ratfucking here.

    I mean, come on. This fucker is so over the top that it can be nothing but ratfucking on some level.

    Part of me wants to applaud it, part of me wants to condemn it, but none of me wants to believe it. There’s got to be a helluva lot more here than meets the eye. A reverse Alvin Greene or something. I don’t know. Maybe I just WANT to believe that.

  75. 75.

    eemom

    June 14, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    @Evolved Deep Southerner:

    I don’t think there’s any basis for a federal claim, because IIRC state employees are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act. Without a federal claim you can only get into federal court if you have diversity of citizenship, which obviously doesn’t exist here.

    OTOH, you could possibly assert a Constitutional Equal Protection Clause violation, because this bullshit law doesn’t apply to all state employees. Some of the pending cases OO mentioned may have tried that, though it’s almost certain to fail, because equal protection challenges require either a “suspect classification” — e.g. race, religion, sex — or a fundamental right. Certainly the right to collective bargaining should be regarded as a fundamental right, but I doubt there’s any precedent to support that.

  76. 76.

    hamletta

    June 15, 2011 at 2:31 am

    Just found out my pastor is retiring next month. Am v. sad.

    Lutherans aren’t supposed to get attached to anything but The Word, but we do.

  77. 77.

    Paul in KY

    June 15, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Returned from Bonnaroo on Monday. Just made it to work today. If you’ve never gone, you need to go. One of the most unbelievable experiences of my life.

    So much great music, so many cool people.

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