Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

This fight is for everything.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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  2. 2.

    Dr J

    Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help From my Friends” transformed a cute little Beatles song into a huge, kick-ass song.

  3. 3.

    singfoom

    Mers finally getting sued

    For anyone who cares about the whole financial meltdown/fraudclosure/Wall Street as a place where people bet but the filter hates the word, this is a big deal.

    MERS is the system the FIRE sector set up to get around recording titles with counties and localities. It literally has one or two employees.

    All of the bullshit mortgages flowed through MERS. Good luck to the DA in Texas who has filed this. Not an exciting moment as justice is a boring sport to watch, with lots of upsets, but at least something is happening…

    ETA: I always get tripped by the filter when talking about Wall Street.

  4. 4.

    wobblybits

    When I read the title of the post, the first thing to come to mind was Prince’s song. Now I can’t get it out of my head.

  5. 5.

    singfoom

    Sorry if this is a repost, but the filter hates me.

    Mers finally getting sued

    For anyone who cares about the whole financial meltdown/fraudclosure/Wall Street as a place where people bet but the filter hates the word, this is a big deal.

    MERS is the system the FIRE sector set up to get around recording titles with counties and localities. It literally has one or two employees.

    All of the bullshit mortgages flowed through MERS. Good luck to the DA in Texas who has filed this. Not an exciting moment as justice is a boring sport to watch, with lots of upsets, but at least something is happening…

  7. 7.

    Svensker

    this is the best cover of a Beatles song ever,

    Not even close.

    Joe Cocker wins hands down for me.

    Also, too, DougJ Green-Ellis, you sound a little testy. 4 interceptions will do that to a guy (not that we Jets fans have anything to be proud of, either).

    ETA: What DrJ said.

  8. 8.

    earl in CA

    10/31/94 – Phish covered the entire Beatles ‘White Album’ start to finish in one set. You may not be Phish fans, but they sure played a hell of a set that night. “While My Guitar…” was covered a few times more by the band and if you’re a fan and got lucky enough to catch them cover that one live – you definitely remember it.

    @ Brian R – Thanks for the Stevie link. That version is terrific.

  11. 11.

    Roger Moore

    @singfoom:
    About fucking time. Too bad nobody thought to sue them before they had mangled the whole mortgage system and sunk the economy. One more piece of proof that lawsuits after the fact are no substitute for prospective regulation.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    MSNBC online has a computer game to see if you can live on 9 dollars an hour. It’s depressing. link
    You can do it if you do not have to pay rent.

  14. 14.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @Elizabelle: “”I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.”

    I don’t think this makes him “homeless”.

  16. 16.

    UncommonSense

    Yep, best Beatles cover, absolutely. Followed closely by Cocker’s version of With a Little Help From My Friends.

  17. 17.

    Neddie Jingo

    I guess I’m the only person on earth who opines that Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help” is overblown and bombastic, and rather misses the point of the original. That’s OK. I’ll just be over here stuffing figs in my ears and reciting Sarah Palin speeches.

  18. 18.

    johnsmith1882

    @Brian R.: Bingo. Stevie’s cover of We Can Work It Out is the only correct answer. It’s not even close. Personally, I have to play it every so often, to recharge the happ-o-meter. Stevie is the mathematical proof that human beings have souls. Ten internets to you, good sir.

  19. 19.

    Big Baby DougJ

    @Neddie Jingo:

    I guess I’m the only person on earth who opines that Joe Cocker’s “With a Little Help” is overblown and bombastic, and rather misses the point of the original

    Nope, you’re not, I think so too. I love his “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” though.

  29. 29.

    johnsmith1882

    @Svensker: I won’t, but will give Cocker credit for singing his guts out. I can appreciate his earnestness. But shouldn’t a cover in some way be ‘better’ than original, or add something new, at least to be considered for this thread? Along the lines of All Along the Watchtower becoming Hendrix’s tune, rather than Dylan’s original? Maybe my criteria is too high, but I’ll take Ringo’s goofy stoned original over Cocker’s drunken thrashing about any day.

  31. 31.

    Svensker

    @johnsmith1882:

    But shouldn’t a cover in some way be ‘better’ than original, or add something new, at least to be considered for this thread?

    It’s a completely different song when Joe sang it. I love the original version for it’s goofy sweetness, but Joe…

    My problem is pretty much everything Joe did in that period just hits me straight in the heart.

  34. 34.

    JC

    I love Cocker’s version of With A Little Help From My Friends.

    Bombastic? Maybe. Overblown? Fine.

    Still love it though – not something you can listen to ten times in a row, but when the mood strikes, it’s a hymn of both mourning and exaltation.

  35. 35.

    johnsmith1882

    @Svensker: Well, certainly no one can take that away from you. That’s what music is all about, right? To reach right in your chest and show you your heart? Point taken. Different strokes for different folks and all that, like (the apparently homeless, sadly) Sly Stone said.

  36. 36.

    Stefan

    John is one AWOL motherfucker these days.

    I’d just assumed that this was one of those periodic episodes where he’d severely injured himself and knocked himself out while stepping out of bed/pouring a bowl of cereal/sitting on a white fluffy cushion, etc., and that he’d come to in a few days if, that is, he wasn’t eaten alive by Tunch first.

  38. 38.

    C.S.

    Rufus Wainwright’s version of “Across the Universe,”
    Aerosmith’s “Come Together,”
    Al Green’s “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,”
    John Denver’s “Mother Nature’s Son,”
    Allison Krause’s “I Will,”
    Emmylou Harris’ “For No One,”
    and Johnny Cash’s “In My Life” . . .

    . . . . all kick Joe Cocker’s spastic ass in too many ways to count. And all are at least the equal of that EW&F cover.

  40. 40.

    Vlad

    [This time without links, since my comment’s trapped in moderation.]

    Some good suggestions in this thread. I also like:

    Wilson Pickett, “Hey Jude”
    The Diodes, “Red Rubber Ball”
    The Brothers Johnson, “Come Together”

  41. 41.

    Elizabelle

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    I hearz you. Sounds like some Pennsylvanians on the later thread would take Sly’s deal.

    Weird former residence of Mr. Stone: a few years ago, he was living in Ashburn, VA, which is near Dulles Airport and home to many IT folk and programmers who keep the DC area humming.

    Bunch of new homes and townhomes where fields reigned 30 years ago.

    Not where you’d expect to find Sly, and apparently not for that long.

  42. 42.

    moderateindy

    The Dead did versions of Dear Prudence that were simply amazing. Of course being the Dead they also did versions that were awful. The best version I ever saw was actually done by Bob Weir and his group RATDOG, at The Riviera Theater in Chicago. The energy of the tune just kept building and building, it was phenomenal, and I was stone cold sober!

  44. 44.

    Gravenstone

    Going anti-fave. I absolutely detest the grossly overplayed Aerosmith cover of Come Together. Seriously, I will change the channel as soon as I hear it fire up. I can’t stand to hear it again, ever.

  46. 46.

    C.S.

    @Gravenstone:

    . . . the grossly overplayed Aerosmith cover of Come Together.

    Which is played about 1/1000th as much Cocker’s abomination. In fact, I can’t even remember the last time I heard Aerosmith’s Come Together — even on classic rock radio — where I wasn’t the one making the decision to play it.

  48. 48.

    Neddie Jingo

    @Elizabelle:

    Weird former residence of Mr. Stone: a few years ago, he was living in Ashburn, VA, which is near Dulles Airport and home to many IT folk and programmers who keep the DC area humming.

    I think you might be mixing up Sly Stone and Wilson Pickett, who lived in Ashburn when he passed away.

    I noticed it at the time (shameless blogwhoring).

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