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You cannot shame the shameless.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The words do not have to be perfect.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Fight them, without becoming them!

In my day, never was longer.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

How stupid are these people?

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Trying to make it a fun Thursday evening with an early Song of the Week.

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Barbara Lewis, “Baby, I’m Yours” (1965)
Written by Van McCoy. Barbara Lewis was a singer who first caught on around Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early ’60s. Her first and biggest hit she wrote herself, “Hello Stranger,” but I couldn’t find a YouTube version any better than the one below. (Here’s a Grooveshark version from Bob Dylan’s XM show with somewhat better sound.) I think this might be my favorite anyway, because I actually remember hearing it on the radio. It’s really a sweet one. She had two more hits, “Make Me Your Baby” and “Make Me Belong to You.” There might be a kind of story in them if you get the right order.

Big hit: “Hello Stranger”
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  1. 1.

    JGabriel

    Who’s crazier? The vast mass of Republican crazies competing for the presidential nomination by reflecting the crazy of the Teahadi crazies? Or Jon Huntsman, for thinking he can pull the GOP from the brink of the crazy by appealing to, of all things, sanity:

    To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

    ETA: Love Barbara Lewis’s performance in the embedded song, DougJ.

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  2. 2.

    CT Voter

    I loved this song. I remember hearing it on radio, too.

    “I’ll be yours until 2 and 2 is 3”. Well, it was a long relationship, which must have met its end in about, what? 2000?

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    @JGabriel: Huntsman crazier than that quote sounds. He believes in the scientific evidence of global warming, but he still doesn’t think we should do anything about it.

  6. 6.

    Southern Beale

    I heard that Crystals song “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)” on the radio this morning. Appalling. I’d never heard it before. It was one of those early Carole King/Gerry Goffin songs, produced by Phil Spector. I detected no irony or satire in the production … I’d love someone to ask Carole King about that song. I read that biography “Girls Like Us” and I don’t recall it coming up.

  11. 11.

    JGabriel

    MikeJ:

    [Humtsman] believes in the scientific evidence of global warming, but he still doesn’t think we should do anything about it.

    Even so, I still don’t know whether to praise Huntsman for facing the slings and arrows of outrageous batshittery, or to laugh ironically at his Quixotic attempt to take arms against a sea of fundies, and by opposing, end their influence.

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  12. 12.

    Southern Beale

    So the goddamned hard-wired smoke detector the damn gummint made us install in our garage is beeping for no discernible reason. I tried spraying dust-off all around it to see if some dust got into it but no luck. It’s driving me nuts because my office is right above our garage.

    Fucking gummint.

  13. 13.

    gogol's wife

    Thank you, I love that song and hadn’t thought of it for a long time. Beautiful song, beautifully performed.

  14. 14.

    JGabriel

    @Southern Beale:

    So the goddamned hard-wired smoke detector the damn gummint made us install in our garage is beeping for no discernible reason. … Fucking gummint.

    Just ignore the flames.

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  15. 15.

    hilts

    Trying to make it a fun Thursday evening with an early Song of the Week.

    Doug,

    You or some other front pager should do another “what’s on your ipod” thread. The one that ABL did awhile back was a blast and included some kick-ass set lists.

  16. 16.

    lamh34

    So I mentioned on the other thread, that I was kinda looking forward to seeing Meryl Streep’s take on Margaret Thatcher. Here is a teaser trailer, with a small bit of Streep’s “Iron Lady”

    The Iron Lady Teaser Trailer

    Hmmm, what do ya’ll think?

    I made a comment to some people a while ago, that Meryl Streep could play Michelle Obama in a movie version of the Obama campaign, and totally rock it.

    Damn, is there an accent that Streep can’t do? Between her and Cate Blanchett, my head is spinning over the number of different accents they’ve both done in movies.

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    @lamh34:

    Hmmm, what do ya’ll think?

    I’m waiting to see whether they’ve come to praise Thatcher, or stab every aspect of her reputation with a million truth-exposing daggers.

    I’m hoping for the latter, but expecting the former. Though Streep is certainly no wingnut.

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  19. 19.

    hilts

    @lamh34:

    Is there an accent that Streep can’t do?

    Nope, Streep is the only American actor or actress I know of who can pull off any accent under the sun. She and Blanchett are simply amazing actresses.

  27. 27.

    Southern Beale

    @BD of MN:

    Some of our hard-wired detectors have batteries in them for back-up but this isn’t one. The ones in our garage and my studio don’t. The studio one started beeping last spring and the dust-off worked, but it’s not working on the garage one.

    LE SIGH

    Needless to say, there is no smoke, no fire, no reason for it to be beeping except to FUCK WITH MY HEAD.

  28. 28.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I have to say that I loved Thatcher at the time, me and John Cole then went all liberal on peoples asses.

  29. 29.

    Southern Beale

    Can I also say, if I see another picture of a stock broker with a “HOLY FUCK WE’RE SCREWED” look on his face on the internet I’m gonna punch something.

  31. 31.

    Valdivia

    @lamh34:

    I just saw Cate Blanchet do Uncle Vanya here in DC in an all Australian accent Aussie production. Man is that woman amazing! I feel so lucky to have seen her on the stage. She rocks it.

  33. 33.

    Southern Beale

    Well, everyone waxing nostalgic about Thatcher might be interested in this Guardian piece about Murdoch, specifically this bit buried at the end of the article:

    This is from the entry for February 14 1996:
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    Bernard [Donoughue, a Labour peer who became a minister in the Blair government] alleged, citing a Tory source, that Thatcher had sent a draft of the 1990 Broadcasting Bill to Murdoch’s lawyers and allowed them to make deletions as they saw fit.

  38. 38.

    lamh34

    @Valdivia:

    I love Cate Blanchett. She slowly became one of my fav actresses, I’m not much for “period pieces” or biopics or the like, but Cate has done enough “mainstream” things, that I found myself watching the other more “independent” movies she’s done just because.

  41. 41.

    Valdivia

    @lamh34:

    yes. she really can transform herself into anything. I saw her last year here too doing A Streetcar Named Desire and the contrast between her in that and her in Uncle Vanya is striking. She is actually super funny and onto physical comedy which she did in this play. But can also carry herself like a countess. I am going to keep raving!

  42. 42.

    Southern Beale

    @MikeJ:

    I’d love to! We’ll be there this Sat and Sunday … supposed to meet up with my nephew at some point, don’t know when or where though. We’re staying downtown by the big farmer’s market, anyone want to meet up for some beers we’d love to… let me know time and place.

  43. 43.

    lamh34

    So I wan to see “The Iron Lady” for Meryl Streep alone. If Meryl wasn’t in it, I would care less. There are any number of movies I want to see, but there is one movie I MOST WANT TO SEE this fall movie season is a childhood favorite of me and mine, and hopefully a new generation will come to love them too!!!

    Is it weird that just the trailer gives me fits of giggle and happiness and not much is really happening in it. Plus Jason Segel has replaced my “doughy boy” crush on Vince Vaughn (although I do still love Vinny).

    The Muppets

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    @CT Voter:

    Brits think her British accent sucks.

    There’s over a hundred British accents, and they all think any accent that isn’t their own sucks.

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  47. 47.

    MikeJ

    @Southern Beale: I know Yutsy said he was interested, we just need to find any others and settle on a time and place.

    Maybe a thread on your blog that we can point people here to?

  54. 54.

    Svensker

    @CT Voter:

    This is burned in my brain

    Best version of the best song ever. Still gives me goose bumps. And ya just have to dance.

  56. 56.

    CT Voter

    @Svensker: She does accents. Well. Unless you happen to be immersed in the accent that she’s doing, and then, not so great, but better than anyone around.

  57. 57.

    CT Voter

    @JGabriel: And there are over a hundred American accents. She’s terrific, no doubt. And if you aren’t immersed in the accent that she is trying to do, it sounds terrific.

    I’m not knocking her.

  60. 60.

    wag

    Thinking about Tomorrow–Beth Orton
    Ring of Fire–Wall of Voodoo
    Pinhead –The Ramones
    North, South, East West–The Church
    Singing in my Sleep–Semisonic
    I Don’t Care–The Ramones (again)
    Music for the Royal Fireworks–Handel
    Falling Down–Tom Waits
    Strawberry Letter 2– The Brothers Johnson
    For Whose Sake?–Richard Thompson

    I’d say that’s a pretty =fair representation of my ipod…

  61. 61.

    gogol's wife

    @Valdivia:

    How in the heck did they manage to set “Uncle Vanya” in the Soviet era? I stopped reading the review when I got to that part. I just don’t see how that could be any good at all.

    I’m afraid I’m going to bed now, but I’ll see your answer in the morning, if you have a chance to answer.

  63. 63.

    Origuy

    @Southern Beale: How old is the detector? I had a wired-in one that had been in the house since I bought it. It started beeping once and I tried the same things you did. Finally called the fire department because I thought there must be something I was missing. They told me that the detectors do that when the americium pellet finally decays to the point where the sensor triggers. You have to replace the detector then.

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