Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans in disarray!

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Let there be snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

We’re not going back!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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  3. 3.

    Dougerhead

    I’m pro-cover, because it’s too hard to write original songs. But I think it’s weird that bands now do covers that sound so much like the original.

  7. 7.

    mistermix

    @Dougerhead: These two are a couple of geeky philosophy majors from Denver who created a band with a eerily authentic early/mid-60s sound. So, this cover makes sense for them. And what’s a poor boy to do? I like her voice.

  9. 9.

    mistermix

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Those are kind of the opposite of this — they do bossa nova style covers, which all sound similar, no matter what the source material. In my book, they’re uneven — for example, nobody needs a bossa nova cover of “God Save the Queen” do they?

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    From the Guardian, Bo Diddley’s son Elias Anthony McDaniel was among four Occupy protesters arrested at Bo Diddley Commuunity Plaza, Gainesville, Florida.

  21. 21.

    eemom

    CBS reporting violence in NYC as the Zuccotti Park protesters march towards Wall Street. Cop ran over a guy with his motorcycle.

  23. 23.

    Wannabe Speechwriter

    It’s been one day-and Sully hasn’t discussed Paul Ryan’s endorsement of the “9-9-9” Plan. Just thought I’d mention it…

  25. 25.

    MTiffany

    Anyone else notice that since the OWS movement gained MSM attention, economic news has been (slightly) positive? Lower than expected unemployment numbers, higher than expected new jobs numbers, etc. Could our Galtian overlords be manipulating the economy so as to discredit the OWS movement by easing the conditions which gave rise to the movement in the first place?

    Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

  32. 32.

    Ed Marshall

    I’ve got a bleg for you. I was at the Global Zero Summit in Los Angeles this week hanging out with James Baker, George Shultz, and James Cartright and I’m trying to get some eyeballs on that story. We are actually very, very close to getting on a path to get rid of nuclear weapons, but the economic situation is sucking all the energy out of the White House.

    It’s a really, really crucial matter. We are at a fork in the road where either we are going to get rid of these weapons or a bunch of countries are about to break out and test nukes.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/global-zero-nuclear-power_n_1004801.html?ref=mostpopular

  33. 33.

    cleek

    @Ed Marshall:

    We are at a fork in the road where either we are going to get rid of these weapons or a bunch of countries are about to break out and test nukes.

    i don’t see that as much or a fork. if we get rid of them, East Slobovia could still come up with their own. and then where would we be?

  34. 34.

    singfoom

    Since this is an open thread, can any BJers help me make sense of this video?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w6tboOENXtU

    To me, it looks like the guy in the green shirt who is pushed in the back by a white shirted NYPD officer and then later the same officer (out of frame) hits him, causing him to fall down, then a suited cop pulls that cop off of greenshirted guy and the OWS crowd pulls the green shirt guy away from the cops.

    Am I wrong here? Need better vantage. I know the protesters are infuriating the cops, but they’re supposed to remain professional.

    For other fun videos on OWS today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrQyUrHlZk

  35. 35.

    boss bitch

    @MTiffany:

    Anyone else notice that since the OWS movement gained MSM attention, economic news has been (slightly) positive? Lower than expected unemployment numbers, higher than expected new jobs numbers, etc. Could our Galtian overlords be manipulating the economy so as to discredit the OWS movement by easing the conditions which gave rise to the movement in the first place?

    No.

  36. 36.

    Ed Marshall

    @cleek:

    No country in the history of the world (including the United States) has ever built a bomb without foreign intelligence noticing. I know this isn’t the usual narrative, but that is called ass covering.

    If badguyland got a bomb in a world without weapons it would be a very serious matter. They would face complete economic isolation and a joint attack by the rest of the planet. This has all been thought out, James Cartright was there in support. This was not a bunch of hippies banging on drums, it was extremely high ranking people from every important nation on earth.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    @MTiffany:
    OWS and related protests have only been on the news for the past three weeks. Those employment numbers are gathered and reported by US government agencies on a month-by-month basis. So I’d doubt that there would have been time to tweak the most recent numbers to undermine the Occupy movement’s case.

    Even if the numbers were manipulated, how would it put much of a dent in Occupy’s case, and in the ordinary American’s identification with it? This protest is not over employment or other economics statistics. The 99-percenters that Occupy is appealing to feel like they’re working harder, when they can find work, yet their lives are growing more burdened and precarious; the one-percenters are the ones getting all the benefit. I don’t see how tweaking the numbers would change that feeling.

  40. 40.

    jibeaux

    From TPM:

    Herman Cain was “disappointed” to hear that his favorite flavor of Haagen Dazs, Black Walnut, was in reality a flavor of the month.

    “I now have my people calling Haagen Dazs, finding out why they don’t make Haagen Dazs ice cream, when they’re going to bring it back, because it has always been my all time favorite,” he told ABC News.

    He’s Black Walnuts without the POW scars, is what he is.

  42. 42.

    catclub

    @DZ: That’s what they told Bach when he jazzed up “‘Kraut und Rüben” in the Goldberg variations.

  44. 44.

    catclub

    @Josie: the way I considered sending to to a winger friend was: “Wow, they must have spent a long time making up all those lies.” No words really necessary. Either that or ‘we need more of this!’ on the 30 year trend of incomes for the 1% going off the chart, while the rest of US mopes along the bottom of the figure.

  45. 45.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @Shinobi:

    why is there a need for demands all of a sudden, i am kind of getting a charge out of the airing of the grievances. i think #ows needs to stick to its own timetable, and not dance to the corporate media’s(even the liberal matt taibbi’s) schedule.

    let people get their pissed off out, let the venting happen, then you start talking about solutions and how to achieve them. i don’t think enough people are understanding, yet, that this is their moment to show their welled up anger in a constructive and productive, even if only by virtue of being noticed, avenue.

    if corporations and the media just want it over with, and many people have yet to catch on, then you need to keep yelling until the media lets the stragglers know, this is their place to yell, then you change to an action movement. that is when you start “making demands” although that description doesn’t sit well with me. i would prefer “asserting priorities”

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    Night shift (belatedly) checking in.

    The Zombies are one of those British invasion groups that, like the Animals, have had much of their excellent work neglected except for a couple of big hits, e.g., “Tell Her No.” Glad to see the Zombie love on this thread.

    One of my favorites is “Whenever You’re Ready.” Pure teen angst with a killer beat and frosty electric piano. Here’s the Zombies’ original and, in the spirit of this thread, a cover by Dinosaur Jr.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Gotta say I don’t like this particular remake as well as the original.

    Is there something to my theory that all these edgy hipster bands cover torridly emotional songs because they’re secretly dying to break out of their ironic hipster personae and let their emo flag fly? Instead of having to defend an original song, they can say, “No, we were totally doing an ironic tribute to and/or deconstruction of that oldie. And, no, I am not tearing up; I just got something in my eye.”

    Another example: Urge Overkill does Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” for Pulp Fiction. Not much space between that and Diamond’s original. Actually, they’re more emo than the original, i.e., echo turned up to 9.

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