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You are here: Home / Balloon Juice / Readership Capture / If I don’t do it, somebody else will

If I don’t do it, somebody else will

by DougJ|  October 29, 20121:59 pm| 240 Comments

This post is in: Readership Capture, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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Two guilty pleasures:

(1) You can read Matt Stoller’s latest anti-Obama polemic here. My two cents: Stoller would be more convincing if he had less personal animus against Obama. Elsewhere, he’s done a lot of “Obama is a jerk” type stuff that undermines his professed status as a principled Burkean progressive. I get a little bit of a Hitchens-in-training vibe. Next stop: Vanity Fair and Slate. There’s always room for anti-Democratic apostates there.

(2) What are the best disaster songs? Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Galveston, Louisiana 1927. What else? Does When the Levee Breaks count?

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    My two cents: Stoller would be more convincing if he had less personal animus against Obama.

    But exactly how much of a racist is he?

  2. 2.

    mawado

    October 29, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    “Burn On” Randy Newman
    “Night of the Johnstown Flood”

  3. 3.

    Joey Maloney

    October 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Does When the Levee Breaks count?

    How could it not – the only question is, Mississippi John Hurt, or Zep?

    It’s The End of the World As We Know It. Too obvious?

  4. 4.

    Maude

    October 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Doug, are you getting wind gusts? The gusts are getting stronger here.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    What are the best disaster songs?

    The forthcoming Gangnam style parody that someone will make with Hurricane Sandy video.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    October 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Bee Gees – NY Mining Disaster comes to mind…. also too, The Doors – Riders on the Storm seems strangely appropriate now…

  7. 7.

    Summer

    October 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    I think “Timothy” by the Buoys has a place in a catalog of best disaster songs.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    October 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Trying to reason with hurricane season by Jimmy Buffett.

  9. 9.

    Raven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
    I was staring in my empty coffee cup
    I was thinking that the gypsy wasn’t lyin’
    All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
    I’m gonna drink ’em up

    And if California slides into the ocean
    Like the mystics and statistics say it will
    I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill

  10. 10.

    RedKitten

    October 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    I can’t make light this with music, especially with “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” The HMS Bounty sank today, and the captain is missing, along with one of the crew members. I can’t even imagine what their families are going through right now.

  11. 11.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    The Bee Gees- New York Mining Disaster 1941

  12. 12.

    Hill Dweller

    October 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Obama’s reasoning for canceling his scheduled campaign trips is obvious, but why did Willard and Eddie Munster cancel their campaign stops? They have no responsibilities in terms of managing the response. Is it just optics?

  13. 13.

    Raven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Day after day, more people come to L.A.
    Ssh! Don’t you tell anybody the whole place is slipping away.
    Where can we go when there’s no San Francisco?
    Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho.

    Do you know the swim? You better learn quick, Jim.
    Those who don’t know how to swim, better sing the hymn.
    Tuna at the bowl. Fine fillet o’ much soul.
    Whoo! Whoo! What can we do with a bushel of wet gold?

  14. 14.

    canuckistani

    October 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    High Water Everywhere, by Charley Patton.
    Delta Blues is an appropriate musical response to disaster.

  15. 15.

    mtraven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Gillian Welch’s Ruination Day is a favorite of mine since it mashes up several disparate catastrophes.

  16. 16.

    Citizen_X

    October 29, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    a principled Burkean progressive

    Heh. Nicely done.

    And yeah, I think When the Levee Breaks wins by a mile. But I’ll give second to Howlin’ Wolf, The Natchez Burnin’. Gotta love a song about a whorehouse burning down.

  17. 17.

    utterdregs

    October 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Um – Smoke on the Water?

  18. 18.

    vestigial

    October 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Where in the northeast do we have levees? I’m honestly not familiar with any, probably because everything’s above sea level and/or I am ignorant on many matters.

  19. 19.

    Summer

    October 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    And maybe Stephin Merrit’s “Plague Songs” is itself a contender, but individually I’d propose “Blood,” “Lice,” AND “Glittering Cloud.”

  20. 20.

    Maude

    October 29, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    2 p.m. NOAA update, Sandy to make landfall in south NJ early evening.

  21. 21.

    ...now I try to be amused

    October 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Man, Obama must have kicked Stoller’s cornflakes, fucked his dog, and pissed on his SO.

  22. 22.

    Larry

    October 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Here Comes the Flood -PG

  23. 23.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    October 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Obama’s reasoning for canceling his scheduled campaign trips is obvious, but why did Willard and Eddie Munster cancel their campaign stops? They have no responsibilities in terms of managing the response. Is it just optics?

    Because the boys who want to get rid of FEMA want to look oh so concerned.

  24. 24.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    @Punchy: Good call! Do you think Jimmy Buffett’s “Volcano” counts?

  25. 25.

    Michael

    October 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    Yes, liberals and progressives ought to be taking advice on effecting long term political change from this guy:

    Open Is Done, by Matt Stoller, Sept 12, 2007

    To win in 2008, you have to find a base of support that is bigger than the other person’s base of support. Barack Obama has not done that, and will probably not do that. The Clinton campaign has down up establishment support, but has not locked down progressives. Only a strategy that brings progressives, African-Americans, and young people can block a Clinton nomination, and that requires a real withdrawal strategy on Iraq and some real leadership. Obama, with his recent speech and his Oprah obsession, has now made it quite clear that his strategy is targeted at elites and that he will not pull this coalition together.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    “California Earthquake,” Rodney Crowell

  27. 27.

    DCLaw1

    October 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: And on Nov. 6, he’ll drink his milkshake.

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    @mtraven:
    That song packs a lot of whallops. I must recommend “Texas Flood” the Stevie Ray Vaughn edition.

  29. 29.

    YellowJournalism

    October 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    I know CCR “Bad Moon Rising” is obvious, but some of the lyrics really hit the mark in this context.

  30. 30.

    ? Martin

    October 29, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    Cuyahoga – REM
    Five Feet and Rising – Johnny Cash

    Half of Woody Guthries work.

  31. 31.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Every single song written during the Civil War era.

  32. 32.

    Polish the Guillotines

    October 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Mining Disaster: Big Bad John.

    Structure Fire: Disco Inferno.

  33. 33.

    pillsy

    October 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    I’ve always had a soft spot for Tool’s “Aenema”:

    Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
    The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
    Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
    Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona bay.

    Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
    Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
    Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
    Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    “Down in the Flood,” which I think is on The Basement Tapes. There is a good cover version on the first Blood Sweat & Tears album after David Clayton-Thomas left the band.

  35. 35.

    Election Follower

    October 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    With only EIGHT DAYS LEFT until President-Elect Romney, there is a new poll in Ohio showing Romney AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME hot on the heels of another gold-standard in-state poll from Cincinnati showing the election all tied up.

    AND THE FIX has now moved Minnesota from Solid to ONLY LEANS Obama.

    Pennsylvania is also coming into play!

    Looking like the last week of the 1980 Election out there, folks…

  36. 36.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    @Hill Dweller:
    Optics. They’re bent on looking presidential. I expect lots of furrowed manly brows and the donning of the rubber boots and the handing out of the bottled water, somewhere with a nice backdrop.

  37. 37.

    JGabriel

    October 29, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    __
    __
    DougJ @ Top:

    What are the best disaster songs?

    Here are a few:

    R.E.M. — It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

    Continental Drifters — Daddy Just Wants it to Rain

    The Waterboys — The Earth Only Endures / The Big Music

    .

  38. 38.

    vestigial

    October 29, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    DougJ: What do you mean by “Hitchens-in-training”? You mean by turning on your former political allies (a la Iraq) or biting prose? Definitely possible on the former, very rare on the latter. Will we see a book on “Why Herbert Hoover Matters”?

  39. 39.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Election Follower:

    Pennsylvania is also coming into play!

    Again? What is this, like, the fifth time?

  40. 40.

    Will

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Look I’m no Obot or a firebagger, Hilary & Obama are far too “centrist” for me. I honestly wish the President was half the socialist his enemies think he is. We needed and still need a FDR not an Eisenhower on Valium. Whoever believes Romney is going to go soft on pot smokers and lay off the drones is fat too stupid to breathe let alone vote.
    So I’ll probably vote for Obama unless my finger twitches and vote for Jill Stein

  41. 41.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Election Follower:

    From watching the World Series, I understand Taco Bell has a Doritos Taco(r) special. Can you elucidate? I would also, too, subscribe to your newsletter please like.

  42. 42.

    Elizabelle

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    I’m Only Happy When It Rains

  43. 43.

    ? Martin

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Might be my least favorite Green Day song, but “Wake Me Up When September Ends” should count.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Election Follower:

    Riiight. I think I’ll stick with the notorious triad boss Silver Wang.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    What’s the one where they’re trapped in a mine and eat one of the guys and then the record company tried to say it was really a Mule they ate?

  46. 46.

    Beatrice

    October 29, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    I will just note that none of the prominent purity advocates appears to have a functioning uterus.

  47. 47.

    grape_crush

    October 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    For some reason, the 1984 movie The River came to mind, then Springsteen’s song “The River”, but the latter is about a different kind of disaster.

    I’d go for Johnny Cash, “Five Feet High and Risin'”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpbCLNyPUA

  48. 48.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    October 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    About 15 miles north of Boston, on the coast. Wind just started here an hour or so ago. The worst comes here at midnight (at high tide), but it’s the South-facing coasts that are going to get hammered worse. I’m more worried about wind up here.

    Each cat has claimed a window and is peering outside intently.

  49. 49.

    jl

    October 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    I’m getting the age where I can see Happy Birthday as a short sweet little disaster song. No there yet, but best to think long term ahead in these parlous times. And prepare.

  50. 50.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    This is the best evisceration of Stoller I’ve seen so far.

    http://www.samefacts.com/2012/10/politics-and-leadership/35683/

  51. 51.

    giltay

    October 29, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    @JGabriel: The definitive version of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It is the one by Newfoundlanders Great Big Sea.

  52. 52.

    jibeaux

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    @RedKitten: Such a terrible story. Off the coast of Hatteras, which while I wouldn’t want to be there, I would’ve thought that would be outside the really dangerous areas to be, in a boat as big as that. Very unfortunate.

  53. 53.

    The Dangerman

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    Not a natural disaster, but I’ll nominate “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.

  54. 54.

    ranchandsyrup

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    @Joey Maloney: I vote for the A Perfect Circle version of Levee.

  55. 55.

    The Red Pen

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    Dandy Warhol’s “Wreck” (Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) is really, really good. Ten minutes long, also too.

  56. 56.

    red dog

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    I agree; Johnny Cash’s “How high’s the water Mama?Five feet high and Risin” seems to fit this storm.

  57. 57.

    Election Follower

    October 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Keep clinging to your fuzzy models while the race continues to slip away. I wonder if Silver has his resume ready, because his fifteen minutes of fame are over in just eight days.

    Nate Silver’s Flawed Model.

  58. 58.

    Hill Dweller

    October 29, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    Because the boys who want to get rid of FEMA want to look oh so concerned.

    Obama isn’t doing any campaigning because he actually has responsibilities, but the VP and his surrogates are still making campaign stops.

    Willard and Eddie Munster have no responsibilities. Their campaign is still going full tilt on TV. Why stop doing campaign stops? What are they actually accomplishing?

  59. 59.

    Napoleon

    October 29, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Being from Cleveland need to go with Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

  60. 60.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    @? Martin: Man made disasters ought to be included, I guess.

  61. 61.

    ranchandsyrup

    October 29, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Aenima by Tool is a good one.

  62. 62.

    Democrat Partisan Asshole

    October 29, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    Next stop: Vanity Fair and Slate.

    I get the feeling he’s headed straight to Fox. There’s a little too much rage, or whatever, for him to land at a respectable news outlet.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    October 29, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    You can read Matt Stoller’s latest anti-Obama polemic here

    So, who is the candidate that progressives are supposed to vote for?

    But then again, American progressives are even more irrelevant than being a Lib Dem in the UK, or a Tory in Scotland.

  64. 64.

    Chris

    October 29, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    My two cents: Stoller would be more convincing if he had less personal animus against Obama.

    I’m blanking on who Stoller is and if I’ve ever read him before right now, but for my money, a lot of conservatives and “Burkean Moderates” would be more convincing if they weren’t that personally outraged at Obama. When every other rant is about how they feel personally violated by the fact that Obama doesn’t show them the proper deference and respect, it’s hard to think they’re not just projecting a lifetime’s worth of daddy issues onto the President.

    (Our side complains about Romney as a person too, of course, but usually supplements it with a lot of criticism of his actual policies. They don’t tend to do that except in vague terms about his being a “socialist” or a “Muslim apologist” or other things that again, are more personal attacks than actual policy disagreements).

  65. 65.

    The Dangerman

    October 29, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    @RedKitten:

    I can’t even imagine what their families are going through right now.

    To make it even worse (if that’s possible), one of the two missing, Claudene Christian, had an atypical goodbye for her parents “just in case something happened”.

  66. 66.

    ranchandsyrup

    October 29, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    fywp double post

  67. 67.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    What are the best disaster songs?

    That one with Meat Loaf and Romney the other day was pretty apocalyptic.

  68. 68.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: Because the boys who want to get rid of FEMA want to look oh so concerned.

    Also, too, you don’t even want footage of a reporter shouting “Do you still want to eliminate FEMA and privatize disaster recovery?” Halliburton? The only thing worse than trying to answer that question is walking away from it.

  69. 69.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: Because the boys who want to get rid of FEMA want to look oh so concerned.

    Also, too, you don’t even want footage of a reporter shouting “Do you still want to eliminate FEMA and privatize disaster recovery?” Halliburton? The only thing worse than trying to answer that question is walking away from it.

  70. 70.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    Does When the Levee Breaks count?

    Only when Dread Zeppelin does it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoXCqpZb0U

  71. 71.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    @Election Follower: Bookmark it, libs!

    Troofie, you really need to find some actual friends. piefilter

  72. 72.

    PurpleGirl

    October 29, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    @Maude: Woodside, Queens. Strong winds and some rain. NWS says wind speed in 33 mph and gusting to 45 mph.

  73. 73.

    ? Martin

    October 29, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    @Will: Obama is going to be as liberal as Congress will permit. There’s two schools of thought here – that you can drag the country in your direction through rhetoric, or that you can drag the country in your direction through achievement. Liberalism is about the former, progressivism is about the latter. Obama is in the latter camp. It’s not that they aren’t moving in the same direction, but Obama wants to actually get legislation passed so voters see the effect, and move left as a result.

    IMO, that’s always been the most effective solution. Nobody remembers FDRs speeches. They remember the legislation he got passed.

  74. 74.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    @Election Follower:
    Dude, we know who you are. You do take a nice picture (you’ll always have that).

    http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/10/26/unskewed-studmuffin-dean-chambers-does-not-care-for-nate-silvers-dickless-polling/

  75. 75.

    Maxwel

    October 29, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    Disaster – that’s party time!

  76. 76.

    NonyNony

    October 29, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    @Brachiator:

    So, who is the candidate that progressives are supposed to vote for?

    Stoller’s one of those idiots who thinks that progressives can win by losing. That if you keep your votes pure eventually the country will get so lousy that people will start taking progressives of his stripe seriously and fix things.

    Nevermind that this has never happened in the entire history of the world – Left-Wing American Exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.

  77. 77.

    Jerry Lindershaw

    October 29, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Galveston’s not a disaster song.

  78. 78.

    Citizen_X

    October 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    Does Youth Brigade, Sink With California, count?

  79. 79.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    @? Martin:

    Nobody remembers FDRs speeches.

    While I agree with your general point, that line was a bit overdone.

  80. 80.

    Barry

    October 29, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: “Man, Obama must have kicked Stoller’s cornflakes, fucked his dog, and pissed on his SO.”

    I support the theory that’s he’s the sort of sanctimonious twit who really doesn’t like winning, when he could act all pure over losing. Of course, it’s not like losing will f*ck him over, in the short run, at least.

  81. 81.

    Napoleon

    October 29, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Well the weather radar shows WV getting wacked by snow the last several hours. Where is Cole?

  82. 82.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Somewhat a different type of disaster but I’m quite fond of The Jim Carroll Band – Barricades.

  83. 83.

    MikeJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Man made disasters ought to be included, I guess.

    Califonia Über Alles?

  84. 84.

    Ceremet

    October 29, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    Make the song about NJ – the hurricane has strengthened a great deal! Winds are over 90 mph (were 74 mph)and it is now heading for the NJ coast, fast (picking up speed.) MD coast has suffered – eleven foot surge and they are on the ‘low side’ of the surge! (any Del reports?) But the worst may be over for the MD coast. However, as it leaves the Gulf Stream (and normally start to lose energy), the damn thing will pick up strength due to artic air fueling it(reverse energy … now that is why this storm is special; when is the last time a hurricane feed off f’ing artic air!?)

  85. 85.

    ? Martin

    October 29, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Obama’s reasoning for canceling his scheduled campaign trips is obvious, but why did Willard and Eddie Munster cancel their campaign stops? They have no responsibilities in terms of managing the response. Is it just optics?

    Tradition. Something of a gentleman’s agreement that if one campaign needs to stop for unavoidable reasons, the other will as well. It’s part optics, part actual courtesy.

  86. 86.

    psycholinguist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    My personal favorite – John Lee Hooker singing about the flood in Mississippi that destroyed many towns in the state. This one will make your hair stand on end.

    http://youtu.be/77pmWCpMNkI

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God: A college friend from Rockport, MA, FBed a photo from Granite Pier; she said the wind was so strong she could not open her car door.

  88. 88.

    Barry

    October 29, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    @vestigial: “DougJ: What do you mean by “Hitchens-in-training”? You mean by turning on your former political allies (a la Iraq) or biting prose? Definitely possible on the former, very rare on the latter. Will we see a book on “Why Herbert Hoover Matters”?”

    Becoming a right-wing wh*re, patting oneself on the back for bravery, and enjoying the perks of being a ‘former liberal who saw the light’.

  89. 89.

    Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    @RedKitten:

    I’m not making light, FWIW.

  90. 90.

    JGabriel

    October 29, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    @giltay: Nice, thanks.

  91. 91.

    Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    @Barry:

    Becoming a right-wing wh*re, patting oneself on the back for bravery, and enjoying the perks of being a ‘former liberal who saw the light’.

    Yes, that is what I mean.

  92. 92.

    Capt. Seaweed

    October 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    For your apres disaster enjoyment: Vera Lynn

  93. 93.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    @trollhattan: I expect lots of furrowed manly brows and the donning of the rubber boots and the handing out of the bottled water, somewhere with a nice backdrop.

    And, true to Ryan’s dishwashing form, well after any actual victims are cleared away.

  94. 94.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    @Election Follower:

    Nate has a track record. You have shit.

  95. 95.

    vestigial

    October 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    @Will: My Ron Paulite friend claims Obama’s justice department is coming down harder on medical marijuana than Bush did. Grain of salt.

  96. 96.

    Amir Khalid

    October 29, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live, Bruce’s Hurricane Katrina version, is always worth a mention in these lists; but I can’t seem to find the live version from the 2006 New Orleans Jazzfest with the dedication to “President Bystander”.
    And I believe his R0ulette is about Three Mile Island.

  97. 97.

    SatanicPanic

    October 29, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    Hitchens at least was entertaining to read.

  98. 98.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    October 29, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Or Memphis Minnie, who wrote When the Levee Breaks, IIRC.

  99. 99.

    wenchacha

    October 29, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    Tom Rush – Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm

    about Galveston

  100. 100.

    geg6

    October 29, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    @…now I try to be amused:

    Nah. He’s just a PUMA. These fuckers have never gotten over it even if their goddess certainly has.

  101. 101.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    @Chris: (Our side complains about Romney as a person too, of course, but usually supplements it with a lot of criticism of his actual policies.

    Romney’s personality– specifically his born-on-third-base sense of entitlement and Messiah/MOTU delusions– are inseparable from his policies.

    As to Stoller, when I read that one of the keys to his argument is that it doesn’t matter if Romney is elected, at least for the Supreme Court, because Romney has said he has no abortion agenda, and Kagan and Sotomayor are really conservatives, so that’s a draw. I didn’t feel the need to dig much deeper. He’ll never be the New Hitchens because he doesn’t have the accent, the Oxbridge pedigree, and what the Beltway viewed as boozy rogue charisma.

  102. 102.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    But exactly how much of a racist is he?

    Though DougJ likes to weigh in on everyone’s racism, I think the precise level of inherent racism is best judged by our BJ racism expert/accuser, Dennis G.

    I leave ABL out of this mix because she is in a category all her own when it comes to loose accusations of racism as an underlying cause of any position less than one hundred per cent pro-O.

  103. 103.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    @Napoleon:

    Well the weather radar shows WV getting wacked by snow the last several hours. Where is Cole?

    If he’s got a lick of sense, he’s out playing with the dogs.

  104. 104.

    Wally Ballou

    October 29, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    @The Dangerman: “Acadian Driftwood”?

    Incidentally, am I the only one who noticed Doug quoted Dr. John’s “Such a Night”? There’s a Band connection there too ( cf. The Last Waltz).

  105. 105.

    MikeJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    @geg6: I don’t think they ever even like Hillary that much. What they hate is losing and not getting to steer the direction for the party.

  106. 106.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    If he’s got a lick of sense, he’s out playing with the dogs.

    That’s not who he’s playing with. Let him be.

  107. 107.

    stephen benson

    October 29, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJ9TNg3API

    wasn’t that a might storm?

  108. 108.

    ranchandsyrup

    October 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    here is a link to the APC version of When the Levee Breaks

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBRKL8XShzQ

  109. 109.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    @RedKitten:

    What I don’t get is how the hell that boat got caught in the situation to begin with. Like did they not have enough warning that this little storm was out there? ???

  110. 110.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    October 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    @vestigial: Lots of levees in the Northeast. Many along the Susquehanna, one right through the middle of Wilkes Barre. Chemung River in Binhampton NY. Codorus Creek in York PA, Four Mile Run in Arlington/ Alexandria VA.

    I’m not really a levee junkie: my company has been busy inspecting these for the Corps for the last year or so.

  111. 111.

    Amir Khalid

    October 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    @Metrosexual Manichean Monster DougJ:
    I have a comment in moderation because of a song title. Can you please release it, let it go?

  112. 112.

    Raven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    The Legend of the USS Titanic is awesome!

    Now he wouldn’t let Jack Johnson on board
    they said this ship don’t haul no coal
    Fare thee well Titanic,
    fare thee well.
    It was midnight on the sea,
    the band was playin’ “Nearer My God To Thee”
    Fare thee well Titanic,
    fare thee well.

  113. 113.

    catclub

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends have turned me on to:

    Pull for the Shore

    and Let the Lower Lights be Burning.

    Not disaster songs, quite, but I still like em.

  114. 114.

    Paul

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @Brachiator:

    But then again, American progressives are even more irrelevant than being a Lib Dem in the UK, or a Tory in Scotland.

    Yup. In 2010 they took the intelligent approach of not voting to send Obama a message. Compare that to the tea baggers who organized and now actually have some power. The progressives, due to their own tactical missteps, have less power than ever.

    Not voting – good grief!

  115. 115.

    MikeJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Tokyo Storm Warning

  116. 116.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    because Romney has said he has no abortion agenda, and Kagan and Sotomayor are really conservatives, so that’s a draw.

    Oh my that’s dumb.

  117. 117.

    Hill Dweller

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @? Martin:

    Tradition. Something of a gentleman’s agreement that if one campaign needs to stop for unavoidable reasons, the other will as well. It’s part optics, part actual courtesy.

    As Charlie Pierce pointed out, this is a guy that attacked the diplomatic personnel in Egypt while protesters were scaling the embassy walls, and doubled down the next morning after knowing people had died. Moreover, their shameless and dishonest campaign ads are still being aired. Willard and the Republicans don’t do courtesy.

    Obama’s campaign is still going full tilt. The VP and Clinton are still doing campaign stops. Their ads are still being aired. The only change is the President canceling campaign stops because he has responsibilities.

    I saw where Chuck Todd was already giving Romney campaign for stopping their rallies. Why stop? They aren’t accomplishing anything.

  118. 118.

    ? Martin

    October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @Baud:

    While I agree with your general point, that line was a bit overdone.

    But it’s actually true. We don’t remember the words of any of our liberal/progressive/conservative/etc champions. We measure left/right by the legacies they leave behind – Social Security, or Medicare, or the end of the Cold War or tax cuts or a booming economy or whatever.

    We just don’t remember the ideology at all. We generally reconstruct most of the ideology to fit the achievement, not the other way around, and we usually get a fair bit of it wrong. It’s also why the left and right have such different views on those achievements, because each side tends to be overly generous toward their own ideology and overly harsh toward their opponents.

    But if FDR never got any of those programs passed, he’d probably be viewed as a disappointment who imprisoned US citizens based on their ethnicity and called for mass civilian bombings in Germany and Japan. We’d construct different ideologies around FDR based on other prominent achievements, rather than on the New Deal. And it’s somewhat ironic that the people most disappointed in Obama, often over his civil rights decisions, still point to FDR as the ideal, who had a vastly worse civil rights record. FDR refused to make lynching a federal crime, out of fear of losing support in the south.

  119. 119.

    Raven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    @Spatula: There are 5 cruise ships out there riding it out.

  120. 120.

    Gravenstone

    October 29, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    @Election Follower: Looks lioke shithead’s got another bannination/reincarnation cycle going. Pie filter to be updated accordingly.

  121. 121.

    Phineas Phang

    October 29, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Charlie Patton

    “High Water Everywhere” (about the same 1927 flood referenced by Randy Newman, but written and recorded about 40 years earlier).

  122. 122.

    Phineas Phang

    October 29, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    Also, Howlin’ Wolf

    “Did You Hear About the Burning?”

  123. 123.

    catclub

    October 29, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @Ceremet: “fast (picking up speed.)”

    Fast is actually better for limiting overall damage.
    Storms that linger are not a good thing.

  124. 124.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    Gotta get one in for my coast: Bad Religion, “Los Angeles is Burning”

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    When we had a big nasty windstorm here in the Valley last year, Charlotte insisted on sleeping between us, presumably so the flying glass would hit us first.

    Fortunately, very few people were hurt, but so many trees came down that parts of Pasadena and other cities were without power for a week because they had to detangle everything before they could risk turning the juice back on.

  125. 125.

    Baud

    October 29, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @? Martin:

    Again, I agree with you on tangible achievements, but we also remember FDR’s speeches, more so than probably just about anyone.

  126. 126.

    gene108

    October 29, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @vestigial:

    Will we see a book on “Why Herbert Hoover Matters”?

    Outside of that four year stint as President, Hoover had a very remarkable and successful life.

    I think at some point, people will rehabilitate his reputation in the history books; there are some striking positive accomplishments in his life.

    How many other U.S. Presidents have a park named after them? In Belgium!

  127. 127.

    MattR

    October 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    It’s a little ironic that Sandy is slamming Asbury Park, but at least it isn’t July 4th.

  128. 128.

    Paul

    October 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    @Election Follower:

    With only EIGHT DAYS LEFT until President-Elect Romney, there is a new poll in Ohio showing Romney AHEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME

    Rasmussen obviously does not count. It’s a Republican based poll. Hell, the Rasmussen guy is on Bill O’Reilly’s show all the time.

    I think of the previous 15 polls in Ohio (again Rasmussen does not count), Obama has led in all of them.

    Good luck Election Follower/Political Observer!

  129. 129.

    Haydnseek

    October 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    @? Martin: I take your point, but his “I welcome their hatred” speech was pretty damned memorable.

  130. 130.

    Poopyman

    October 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    “After the Gold Rush”, by Neil Young. I’ve always gotten a strong sense of apocalypse when I hear it.

    Re: The Bounty. I don’t know what they were thinking, trying to make that run. That’s not known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for nothing, and it was feared long before U-boats gave it a worse reputation. Here’s another tall ship went down there that I was slightly acquainted with.

  131. 131.

    jibeaux

    October 29, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    @Baud: The only thing we have to fear is hyperbole itself.

  132. 132.

    MikeJ

    October 29, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Can you please release it, let it go?

    Don’t you love it any more?

  133. 133.

    the antibob

    October 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Dylan’s Black Diamond Bay on Desire

  134. 134.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    Here’s a disaster song for us Left Coasters blessed with chamber-of-commerce weather – Shango “Day After Day”

  135. 135.

    JGabriel

    October 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    __
    __
    Neil Young — Like A Hurricane

    Neko Case — This Tornado Loves You

    Death Cab For Cutie — Transatlanticism

    The Atlantic was born today and I’ll tell you how…
    The clouds above opened up and let it out.

    I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
    When the water filled every hole.
    And thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
    Making islands where no island should go.
    Oh no.

    Those people were overjoyed; they took to their boats.
    I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat.
    The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door have been silenced forever more.
    The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
    It seems farther than ever before
    Oh no.

    I need you so much closer

  136. 136.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Obama isn’t doing any campaigning because he actually has responsibilities,

    Spare me.

    He is campaigning BY pretending that he can’t monitor this storm from the campaign trail and MUST, simply must, stay at the WH. As would any other incumbent candidate.

  137. 137.

    Hill Dweller

    October 29, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    @Paul: Also too, Obama has built a huge lead in OH early voting. Approximately 36% have already voted.

  138. 138.

    Raven

    October 29, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    @LanceThruster: Ahem. . .

  139. 139.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    @Spatula:

    Though DougJ likes to weigh in on everyone’s racism, I think the precise level of inherent racism is best judged by our BJ racism expert/accuser, Dennis G.

    Well, Dennis wrote that his smear was really just a joke, just a laugher, and he doesn’t really find Stoller’s issue to be based in racism.
    Of course, he wrote that down in the comments after his topline post did in fact name Stoller as a racist.
    So since this article has been fisked to death here and DougJ decided to make it the topic of a third or maybe fourth FP post, I thought I’d ask his opinion too.

  140. 140.

    Amir Khalid

    October 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    @gene108:
    Lyndon Johnson has a village named after him in Malaysia.

  141. 141.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    @? Martin:

    And it’s somewhat ironic that the people most disappointed in Obama, often over his civil rights decisions, still point to FDR as the ideal, who had a vastly worse civil rights record. FDR refused to make lynching a federal crime, out of fear of losing support in the south.

    Actually, they’re generally upset about Obama’s civil liberties decisions, which it turns out are different than civil rights because civil rights are for Those People while civil liberties are for White Guys and therefore should take precedence.

    I wish I were kidding, but that’s what the arguments I’ve heard have boiled down to. They sometimes try to throw in a fig leaf of “higher percentage of African-Americans in prison due to drug laws!” but they’re far more concerned about how drug laws affect them than in how they affect anyone else.

  142. 142.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    @? Martin:

    Obama is going to be as liberal as Congress will permit. There’s two schools of thought here – that you can drag the country in your direction through rhetoric, or that you can drag the country in your direction through achievement. Liberalism is about the former, progressivism is about the latter. Obama is in the latter camp. It’s not that they aren’t moving in the same direction, but Obama wants to actually get legislation passed so voters see the effect, and move left as a result.

    Good god, this old horseshit again.

    Hey here’s an idea: Why not use aggressive, teaching, truth-telling rhetoric, AND aggressive legislation? Is there some reason, in your mind, that these tactics cannot be used in tandem?

    Do you have any explanation for why Obama has rarely succeeded at using either?

  143. 143.

    Haydnseek

    October 29, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I saw what you did there……

  144. 144.

    BGK

    October 29, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @Ceremet:
    Wilma did this in 2005. Came ashore near Marco Island and it wasn’t all that bad. It picked up strength from a cold front while crossing the Florida peninsula and whalloped Ft. Lauderdale. The only upside was that the post-storm weather was fantastic, which was great as I was without electricity for five days.

    The forward speed increasing is good news, as it means less storm surge and less rainfall accumulation. That’s what kept Charley in 2004 for being any worse.

  145. 145.

    SatanicPanic

    October 29, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Approximately 36% have already voted.

    And they can vote again on election day. I may just fly to Ohio so I can vote a couple dozen times.

  146. 146.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Don’t you love it any more?

    Of course he does. But when it returns to him? That will be the greatest love of all.

  147. 147.

    vheidi

    October 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @jl: Where would you like your internets delivered?

  148. 148.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @Napoleon:

    Where is Cole?

    Sadly, it’s become clear that he would rather do almost ANYTHING other than post on this blog, choosing to leave it to the tender, bloody mercies of DougJ, Dennis G, and ABL.

  149. 149.

    Rob in Buffalo

    October 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    Joey Maloney – Do you mean Memphis Minnie? I wasn’t aware that MJH did that song.

  150. 150.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    October 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    @Spatula:

    No. The National Weather Service predicted a much less intense storm occurring, crossing Lake Superior far west (near the Keweenaw Peninsula) of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s position.

  151. 151.

    giltay

    October 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    @Spatula: Looks like they tried to sail around the storm and failed.

    WEATHERING THE STORM

  152. 152.

    low-tech cyclist

    October 29, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    @the antibob:

    Dylan’s Black Diamond Bay on Desire

    I opened this thread just to say that! You beat me to it.

  153. 153.

    Joey Maloney

    October 29, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    @psycholinguist: great song, but, nitpicking: Tupelo isn’t actually in the Delta, nor is it particularly low-lying. I don’t think it took much of a hit in the 1927 flood. It did get torn a new asshole in 1936 by a tornado, though.

    I suspect Hooker was taking a bit of poetic license because the name scans well. Politifact gives it two Pinocchios and a slice of watermelon.

  154. 154.

    Spatula

    October 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    @Raven:

    There are 5 cruise ships out there riding it out.

    You promised you would leave me alone.

    You lied.

  155. 155.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    October 29, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I’ve been watching this from our living room window. Storm is 12 hours away, and that’s already the third worst sea I’ve seen since moving here. The open seacoasts like Rockport are much worse (that’s Marblehead across the harbor, kindly taking the brunt of it for us).

    Locals like to drive up our street and park their car up close to the fence to get splashed by the waves. Some even get out and try to film (like a video I found by this guy, who must have filmed around the same time I did).

    Next high tide is at midnight. I’m 35 feet above sea level, built into a hill, and this street has never flooded in 120 years (not even in 1938). But we’ll have to be ready to bug out in the wee hours if we need to.

    My neighbors may want to move their cars, in any case.

  156. 156.

    JoyfulA

    October 29, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @vestigial: There are levees at places along the Susquehanna River where towns have been badly flooded in the past. One such town is Sunbury (http://www.cityofsunbury.com/Pages/Community/FloodAwareness.aspx), near where Joseph Priestley lived in America.

  157. 157.

    pillsy

    October 29, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    FDR’s decision to have a hundred thousand Japanese Americans sent to internment camps doesn’t affect their assessment of his record. That’s principled commitment to civil liberties for you.

  158. 158.

    JGabriel

    October 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    __
    __
    Jesus. There’s a rooftop crane about 80-90 floors up at 57th & 7th ready to fall off and blow across West Mid-Town Manhattan. It looks like it’s barely hanging on by a cable.

    .

  159. 159.

    Joey Maloney

    October 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    @Rob in Buffalo: Fuck me, you’re right. I was thinking of the version with Kansas Joe McCoy.

    I blame Obama, of course.

  160. 160.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    My neighbors may want to move their cars, in any case.

    I wondered about that. It seems pretty obvious they will be flooded. But I guess the question is where do they move them to, eh?

  161. 161.

    Marmot

    October 29, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    Disaster songs–does an awful car malfunction count? If so, I nominate “Parry Thomas” by The Tea Set.

  162. 162.

    Paul

    October 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    @Spatula:

    Hey here’s an idea: Why not use aggressive, teaching, truth-telling rhetoric, AND aggressive legislation? Is there some reason, in your mind, that these tactics cannot be used in tandem? Do you have any explanation for why Obama has rarely succeeded at using either?

    I assume the same reason that Bill Clinton couldn’t get his health care bill through congress or Jimmy Carter didn’t even try. They, like Obama, didn’t have the votes.

    You can truth tell all you want – when you don’t have the votes, it’s pointless.

  163. 163.

    Democrat Partisan Asshole

    October 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    In 2010 they took the intelligent approach of not voting to send Obama a message. Compare that to the tea baggers who organized and now actually have some power. The progressives, due to their own tactical missteps, have less power than ever.

    @Paul: One might think that the sting of being outsmarted by the fucking Tea Party might cause so-called “progressives” (they are nothing of the kind) enough humiliation that they’d figure out another way of going about things.

    The TeaFuckers do it right, during primary season screech about the moderates and RINOs, all while feeding the party non-stop cash and votes, and then as soon as the convention is over, they all STFU, open the checkbooks wider, get in line and vote for the “R”.

    “Progressives” (again, they are not) screech about moderates and DINOS during primary season, sit on their hands and write millions of words on blogs while letting the party, the moderates, and the people with money decide who their candidates are, and then as soon as the convention is over, they all whine ever louder about how they’re not represented and the party has been taken over by corporate interests, stay at home on election day, and take back to the blogs after the election to whine some more about how all the elections are stolen and the nation keeps drifting to the right.

    The difference between real progressives (a phenomena born of the 1900-1930 timeline, and who are now all long dead) and the people who call themselves that today? Today’s “progressives” are the laziest people you’ll ever meet, and their involvement in politics is limited to writing insane screeds on blogs and doing something else besides voting on Election Day.

  164. 164.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    October 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    The Duhks Mighty Storm

  165. 165.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:

    Love Dread Zepplin. They used to play clubs here and if anything, were loonier live than on record. Good enough musicians to make the parody work–a tough thing in itself.

    “Now, c’mere Charlie and bring me my water and towel.”

  166. 166.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @? Martin:

    Something of a gentleman’s agreement…

    OK, so that still doesn’t explain why Romney would cancel campaign stops.

  167. 167.

    trollhattan

    October 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @Corner Stone:
    If you stack them, only the bottom one or two get wet. Of course, of we all had car elevators.

  168. 168.

    NR

    October 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    @Spatula: That’s racist. Sure, Obama’s done some bad stuff, but if you point that out, you’re a racist, because FDR did bad stuff too but nobody cares because he was white. You need to stop and think about what’s really motivating your criticism of Obama’s policies (hint: it’s racism).

  169. 169.

    Interrobang

    October 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Yes, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s version of “When the Levee Breaks” is the canonical version as far as I’m concerned, but admittedly I’m an early blues snob — if it was recorded after 1940, I pretty much don’t listen to it. Another great one that might fit the mood, if not the particulars, is “Last Kind Words” by Geeshie Wiley. Look it up; you will not be disappointed.

  170. 170.

    scav

    October 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    @different-church-lady: VERY churchlike! Nicely done. I owe you a cup of coffee in the basement .

  171. 171.

    beingreleased

    October 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Memphis Minie

  172. 172.

    catclub

    October 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @Corner Stone: “But I guess the question is where do they move them to, eh?”

    Who wants to walk three blocks to your own car?!

    Also, when a hurricane was aiming at a certain island, a lot of planes flew IN. One suspects their insurance was up to date.

  173. 173.

    beingreleased

    October 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Memphis Minnie

  174. 174.

    Brachiator

    October 29, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Actually, they’re generally upset about Obama’s civil liberties decisions, which it turns out are different than civil rights because civil rights are for Those People while civil liberties are for White Guys and therefore should take precedence.

    Sad, but true.

    I would add that these idiots also cannot see that the Republican War Against Women and families is also a civil liberties issue.

    But too many progressives are just a bunch of dicks.

  175. 175.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    @trollhattan:

    If you stack them, only the bottom one or two get wet. Of course, of we all had car elevators.

    I thought it was day rigger that all you East Coast Elitists had those elevator doohickeys for your cars and such.

  176. 176.

    SFAW

    October 29, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    @NR:

    Not saying you’re wrong, but it could be that Spatula just doesn’t handle disappointment (with Obama not being as liberal as Spatula thought he would be, or perhaps DROOONNZ) as well as a 12-year-old.

    Either way, most of Spatula’s stuff is ignore-worthy, though. Or maybe flame-worthy.

  177. 177.

    different-church-lady

    October 29, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    @Spatula:

    Sadly, it’s become clear that he would rather do almost ANYTHING other than post on this blog

    Well, bully for him. It’s about time he saw the light.

  178. 178.

    Amir Khalid

    October 29, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    @different-church-lady:
    It might simply be that outdoor campaign events are a bad idea in hurricane weather. Getting large numbers of people to travel to indoor events in such weather would also be problematic, with conditions unsafe for driving and public transportation temporarily shut down in some places.

  179. 179.

    Paul

    October 29, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    @Democrat Partisan Asshole:

    so-called “progressives” (they are nothing of the kind)

    Thank you! You took the words out of my mouth. I remember during the health care debate when prominent posters on dailykos would badmouth EVERY proposed bill that came up because it wasn’t pure universal or it didn’t include the public option for everybody.

    My neighbor has diabetes and can’t find health insurance. ACA will be a life saver for her. Yet, these SO CALLED progressives were against helping people like her because they didn’t get the perfect bill NOW.

    You are absolutely right. They are NOT progressives. They have no clue that Medicare, for example, was not initially what it is today.

  180. 180.

    Origuy

    October 29, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    Scottish Coal Mine Disaster Song
    Blantyre Explosion

    There are others, but I couldn’t find recordings.

  181. 181.

    Democrat Partisan Asshole

    October 29, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Outside of that four year stint as President, Hoover had a very remarkable and successful life.
    __
    I think at some point, people will rehabilitate his reputation in the history books; there are some striking positive accomplishments in his life.

    @gene108: I’ve done some fairly perfunctory examination of the guy’s career. He was great – smart guy, one of the most educated presidential candidates we’d ever had, mindful of his civic obligations, knew to look out for the little guy, that kind of thing – until the day he walked in the White House door, and then BOOM! – instant asshole, aided and abetted by equal parts tone deafness, cluelessness, and a nasty streak that alienated even those close to him.

    An example: when the country’s economy is vanishing, you don’t insist on a full Marine Color Guard for each and ever dinner you eat in the White House, but by God his predecessor had the privilege and so would he. And he did, every fucking meal until the day he had to pack up and leave.

    Strange guy. Would have liked to have met him because, unlike most of our presidents, I have no idea what he was thinking or what made him tick.

  182. 182.

    psycholinguist

    October 29, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Yeah, I’m from Starkville (go dawgs) so I know Tupelo is above the waterline. I was in Jackson for the 79 flood, that was pretty awe inspiring to see the Colosseum and most of downtown underwater, and full of snakes, alligators, and other mess. Hooker lived in Mississippi and then moved to Detroit, so I’d say he gets to label anything he wants as a disaster area. That factcheck crack made me waste a good mouthful of tea.

  183. 183.

    BruceFromOhio

    October 29, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Ballad of Springhill, Peggy Seeger. Favorite version is by Peter, Paul and Mary.

    In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia,
    Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine,
    There’s blood on the coal and miners lie
    In the roads that never saw sun or sky

    Gaia save the crew of the HMS Bounty.

  184. 184.

    PurpleGirl

    October 29, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    @JGabriel: OMG. I’m trying to think of which corner that’s at, but I haven’t been in the area in a while. (A friend works at the Hearst Tower at 57th and 8th Ave., so I pass through that intersection often.)

  185. 185.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 29, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    @gene108: FDR.

  186. 186.

    burnspbesq

    October 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Speaking of civil liberties, the Supreme Court wasn’t about to let the biggest storm in memory disrespect its authoritah. Oral argument in Clapper vs. Amnesty International went off this morning as scheduled. Let’s see how badly they can fuck up what everybody thinks they know about standing.

  187. 187.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    @vestigial: Binghamton and Scranton have levees. Both cities got major, major flooding when ex-Tropical Storm Lee came through last year.

  188. 188.

    rickstershierpa

    October 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris covering Dylan’ “Shelter from the Storm”

    http://youtu.be/z8N6lrDiKuI

  189. 189.

    Lojasmo

    October 29, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    @Gravenstone:

    I was amazed at how quickly her last incarnation bot ban hammered.

    SEND IN THE DRONES!

    Dead Set on Destruction by Husker Dü

  190. 190.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    @Paul: a lot of internet progressives of the type you describe aren’t really interested in policy. They want a fight, they want revenge, they want their Republican brother-in-law to be as mad as we were in the Bush years.

  191. 191.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    @burnspbesq: how long till Scalia is standing athwart the steps of the Court, point a gavel at the sky and commanding the storm to turn back?

  192. 192.

    geg6

    October 29, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    My thought went in that direction (non-natural disaster), too.

    Mine are from the Springsteen catalog:

    Youngstown

    Death to My Hometown

    My Hometown

  193. 193.

    Roger Moore

    October 29, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @? Martin:

    Nobody remembers FDRs speeches.

    That seems a bit strong. I think a lot of people still remember his best speeches, like “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, “a date which will live in infamy”, “the arsenal of democracy”, and the four freedoms.

  194. 194.

    Lojasmo

    October 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    @NR:

    Not to mention Clinton, who did scads of bad shit, but earned spork’s vote TWICE.

  195. 195.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    @Paul: Nah, they do actually know that. It’s just that there’s a theory of political change out there that goes like this: always fight, never surrender, never compromise, burn all bridges, lose nobly, then, um, something something something, and then you win. And since no politician has ever done it properly, it’s never really been tested, so it totally would work this time, except for all the corporatists, meaning both actual corporate interests and anyone who thinks it’s a stupid way to wage politics.

  196. 196.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 29, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    @Lojasmo: NR is as unreachable by counterexamples or historical comparisons as Spatula, just less snarly.

  197. 197.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 29, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:
    I tend to think Burger Flipper is a pure troll, whilst NR is absolutely sincere in his/her relentless stupidity.

  198. 198.

    aimai

    October 29, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    @Spatula:

    When you think of the right wing freakout that he continued to do two things at once after Benghazi he really had no choice but to go back to the white house. If a single person dies and Obama isn’t shown talking on the phone to g-d fox news is going to insist that Obama personally caused his death and laugheda bout it afterwards.

    aimai

  199. 199.

    geg6

    October 29, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    @? Martin:

    Seriously?

    “I welcome their hatred…”

    “We have nothing to fear but fear itself…”

    Dude.

  200. 200.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    @Raven:

    We got to play the hand dealt us, no?

  201. 201.

    Roger Moore

    October 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I didn’t feel the need to dig much deeper.

    Yeah, I looked at his first figure, which showed home equity dropping to pre-bubble levels, and knew the rest of it was going to be bullshit.

  202. 202.

    Xenos

    October 29, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    @? Martin:

    Nobody remembers FDRs speeches.

    What rubbish. FDR’s speeches were great. Best since Lincoln, and nobody to match him since. The more trenchant lines have entered the vernacular, like Shakespeare.

  203. 203.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Leon Russell – “Out in the Woods” or “Tightrope.”

    (For the record, I hardly ever think of anything on topic at the time, but just like to list songs that I like that kinda/almost fit).

  204. 204.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    @Xenos:

    “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself…and spiders.”

  205. 205.

    PurpleGirl

    October 29, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    @PurpleGirl: Now I know which building it is. I didn’t realize how tall it was going to be.

  206. 206.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    @JGabriel:

    Neil Young — Like A Hurricane

    Especially the “Austin City Limits” version live on the big olde-timey pipe organ.

    Whoo-hoo!

  207. 207.

    AxelFoley

    October 29, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    @Election Follower:

    How many sockpuppets does this cocksucker have?

  208. 208.

    Steeplejack

    October 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    Even in the subset of Gordon Lightfoot sinking-ship songs, “Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle“ is still better than “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

  209. 209.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    I wonder if Cole will get us some new trolls for Christmas this year. I’m bored with the one- note ones we have now.

  210. 210.

    CW in LA

    October 29, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    My fave disaster music is the Rolling Stones at Altamont, even if that was a disaster of their own making (with some help).

  211. 211.

    Mnemosyne

    October 29, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    @LanceThruster:

    “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself…and spiders bunnies.”

  212. 212.

    TomH

    October 29, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvpYTNe8qc

    Peter Gabriel: Here comes the flood

  213. 213.

    JGabriel

    October 29, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    @TomH: Good choice.

  214. 214.

    Davebo

    October 29, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Flooding down in Texas… SRV (OK, it’s not really flooding in TX and we’re happy, yet sufficiently saddened by the events in the north east. Hang in there kids.

  215. 215.

    Brachiator

    October 29, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    @Xenos:

    What rubbish. FDR’s speeches were great. Best since Lincoln, and nobody to match him since. The more trenchant lines have entered the vernacular, like Shakespeare.

    Keeping it grounded in the political realm, Churchill and JFK had a way with a nicely turned phrase.

  216. 216.

    Donald

    October 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    Didn’t read the thread. Glancing at it, it seems to be about the weather. I’m voting Obama and find very unconvincing the notion that we shouldn’t vote for the lesser of two evils and even less convincing the notion that voting for Obama would be the greater of the two evils because it means we’re lost forever to the pro-drone, pro-Wall Street forces.

    And yet, he has a point about how rotten the Democrats are and how rotten Obama is. I’m reading Charles Ferguson’s latest book about the financial disaster and yeah, both parties stink. It’s just that one stinks quite a bit more.

    Hitchens vibes? I’ll wait until he becomes a pro-war sellout. Hitchens’s betrayal of lefty principles was epic and obviously very very profitable. There are tons of lefties who hate both parties and vote Green and the like–they may have crummy political judgment but most aren’t sellouts of the Hitch variety.

  217. 217.

    gwangung

    October 29, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    I quite like the way Scalzi put it…(and note how he looked at Obama in 2008….)

    http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/29/the-scalzi-endorsement-obama-for-president/

  218. 218.

    LanceThruster

    October 29, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    @CW in LA:

    Gimme’ Shelter.

  219. 219.

    celiadexter

    October 29, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Wicked Rain by Los Lobos.

  220. 220.

    AxelFoley

    October 29, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    @Democrat Partisan Asshole:

    @Paul: One might think that the sting of being outsmarted by the fucking Tea Party might cause so-called “progressives” (they are nothing of the kind) enough humiliation that they’d figure out another way of going about things.
    __
    The TeaFuckers do it right, during primary season screech about the moderates and RINOs, all while feeding the party non-stop cash and votes, and then as soon as the convention is over, they all STFU, open the checkbooks wider, get in line and vote for the “R”.
    __
    “Progressives” (again, they are not) screech about moderates and DINOS during primary season, sit on their hands and write millions of words on blogs while letting the party, the moderates, and the people with money decide who their candidates are, and then as soon as the convention is over, they all whine ever louder about how they’re not represented and the party has been taken over by corporate interests, stay at home on election day, and take back to the blogs after the election to whine some more about how all the elections are stolen and the nation keeps drifting to the right.
    __
    The difference between real progressives (a phenomena born of the 1900-1930 timeline, and who are now all long dead) and the people who call themselves that today? Today’s “progressives” are the laziest people you’ll ever meet, and their involvement in politics is limited to writing insane screeds on blogs and doing something else besides voting on Election Day.

    This. All this.

  221. 221.

    AxelFoley

    October 29, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    @NR:

    Ah, one of our other resident trolls makes itself known. To give a handjob to the other one, no less.

  222. 222.

    Corner Stone

    October 29, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    @AxelFoley: If anyone deserves the “troll” moniker it’s yourself. You pop in to talk shit at people and are a one note dullard.
    Learn how to shift gears, you’re boring the shit out of us.

  223. 223.

    hawaiicyclist

    October 29, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Dory Previn’s “Taps Tremors And Time Steps (One Last Dance For My Father).” About the Hindenburg and her father’s death among other disasters…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLPO35GXerE

  224. 224.

    nellcote

    October 29, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    @Joey Maloney:

    Tupelo isn’t actually in the Delta, nor is it particularly low-lying. I don’t think it took much of a hit in the 1927 flood.

    The 1927 flood was 50 miles wide and 150 miles long. Even if Tupelo wasn’t underwater the impact was surely felt there.

  225. 225.

    reality-based

    October 29, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    @Election Follower:

    just out of curiosity, election follower – on election night, when all your wing-nut fairy-land fantasies lie smashed and broken in the dust – are you gonna show up back here? Admit you were wrong? Reference past comments and explain and apologize for your incredible wrongness? Admit that just maybe Nate Silver is more reliable than your favorite Tea Party Political Porn site, Real Clear politics?

    ‘Cause you know we’ll be waiting for you over here on Election night. You gonna have the balls to show up then?

    Didn’t think so.

  226. 226.

    nellcote

    October 29, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    @psycholinguist:

    Hooker lived in Mississippi and then moved to Detroit, so I’d say he gets to label anything he wants as a disaster area.

    And just to tie it in to Herbert Hoover:

    The aftermath of the flood was one factor in the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern cities. During an era in which racism was commonplace, blacks built levees at gunpoint, starved in refugee camps and many were left to fend for themselves during the flood, while whites were rescued.[5] Previously, the move from the rural South to the Northern cities had virtually stopped. The flood waters began to recede in June 1927, but interracial relations continued to be strained. Hostilities had erupted between the races; a black man was shot by a white police officer when he refused to be conscripted to unload a relief boat.[6][7] As a result of displacements lasting up to six months, tens of thousands of local African-Americans moved to the big cities of the North, particularly Chicago; many thousands more followed in the following decades.[8]

    The flood propelled Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was in charge of flood relief operations, into the national spotlight and set the stage for his election to the presidency, but indirectly contributed to his defeat four years later. The flood also aided Huey Long’s election to the governorship of Louisiana in 1928.[9]:408-409, 477, 487 Hoover was much lauded for his masterful handling of the refugee camps, but later concerns over the treatment of blacks in those camps caused him to make promises to the African-American community which he later broke, losing the black vote in his reelection campaign.[9]:259-290, passim Several reports on the terrible situation in the refugee camps, including one by the Colored Advisory Commission by Robert Russa Moton, were kept out of the media at Hoover’s request, with the pledge of further reforms for blacks after the presidential election. When he failed to deliver, Moton and other influential African-Americans helped to shift the allegiance of Black Americans from the Republican party to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democrats

  227. 227.

    Raven Onthehill

    October 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    How ’bout a salvage song? I give you Show of Hands, The Napoli.

    Come gangs from the north
    Lads off the moor
    Wreckers on the cliffs, get down to the shore.
    Scratch Joe Public, what’s underneath?
    A looter, and a pirate, and a thief!

  228. 228.

    redkitten

    October 29, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    @The Dangerman: They’ve just recovered Claudene Christian’s body. :-(

    Weird fact…she’s a descendant of Fletcher Christian.

  229. 229.

    ChrisB

    October 29, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    How about a nominee for the worst:

    “There’s got to be a morning after”

    Maureen McGovern from The Poseidon Adventure

    Apologies if someone said this hours ago.

  230. 230.

    Percysowner

    October 29, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    What are the best disaster songs?

    Mighty Day by the Chad Mitchell Trio

    Link is to the album, Mighty Day is the first track. It’s a great album.

    I remember down in Galveston,
    When storm winds swept the town,
    The high tides from the ocean, Lord,
    Put water all around.

    Wasn’t that a mighty day, (a mighty day) a mighty day
    (a mighty day) a mighty day, great God that morning
    When the storm winds swept the town

  231. 231.

    Comradde PhysioProffe

    October 29, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    @utterdregs: Hellz to the motherfucken yeah, it’s SMOKE ON THE WATER!!!!!

  232. 232.

    Sparky

    October 29, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    @wenchacha: Beat me to it…this was the first song that came to my mind.

  233. 233.

    Sparky

    October 29, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    @Sparky: oops…forgot the linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocXA1e6XRM

  234. 234.

    Another Halocene Human

    October 29, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    @Democrat Partisan Asshole: Word.

    If progressives got involved in their local Dem politics the way Tea Partiers have stormed their local Republican parties, we’d have far fewer DLC and limousine liberals and Blue Dogs trotted out with big corporate piggybanks as our “liberal”, “Democratic” candidates.

    ETA: brain fart

  235. 235.

    xian

    October 29, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    @burnspbesq: it’s pretty obvious who that troll is

  236. 236.

    rickstershierpa

    October 29, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    I also have three Creedence Clearwater songs:

    “Bad Moon Arising,” “Have You Ever Seen Rain,” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain.”

    http://youtu.be/5BmEGm-mraE

    http://youtu.be/ZEY8clFcm2E

    http://youtu.be/Xgr1G3BZ-lw

  237. 237.

    Aaron S. Veenstra

    October 29, 2012 at 10:23 pm

    R.E.M.’s “Houston” is a little obvious, but I like it. “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” by the Legendary K.O. is incredible.

  238. 238.

    Aaron S. Veenstra

    October 29, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    R.E.M.’s “Houston” is a little obvious, but I like it. “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” by the Legendary K.O. is incredible.

  239. 239.

    Tehanu

    October 29, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    @Percysowner:
    I love that song and Chad Mitchell had the greatest tenor in pop history. Wonderful!

  240. 240.

    KC

    October 29, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Not a natural disaster, but this is about a mine collapse, and a bit of a cynical take on how the town reacts and doesn’t, from Tom T. Hall, who is being honored tomorrow in Nashville (and I can’t go) and is on my mind today:

    Tom T. Hall – Trip to Hyden

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