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I think I pretty much agree with everything Ellen Carpenter says in this article.  I'm a big fan of the current lineup with Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche, obviously, but there still was something special about the Bennett years.  I definitely agree that Bennett helped the band turn the corner on the straightforward "y'allternative" material of A.M., which is a great collection of songs, but not an album in the sense that Being There or especially Summerteeth was.  This isn't t

We know this: John McCain is all about accountability.  In response to questions from Dick Gregory about the possibility of AG Holder bringing charges against Bush Administration officials for the torture regime, McCain responded:

Open to all discourse, they are, over there. 

I recently replied to a comment on a post at RedState about Mark Sanford's out-of-office sojourn (the post was prior to Sanford's return and disclosure of his affair).  Basically"Jack Savage" said that John Ensign, Mark Sanford, and the rest of the "GOP Appalachian Trail Hiking Gang" would "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

Here's a little advice for the women out there.  Suppose you're walking along minding your own business and you look around and suddenly you're in a Wilco song.

Get out.  Get the fuck out right now.  'Cause there's a very real possibility you're gonna get your ass beat real soon.

I present this as a service to anyone looking into Skype service.

Skype sucks.  I'm still using it, mainly because there's nothing else that I know of to replace it.  The technology is fine, calls are clear (as long as your machine doesn't crap out on network traffic like my work desktop does), ease of use is OK (their contact management is retarded, but not un-usable).

But their documentation is crap, their interfaces are crap, their customer service is beyond crap, they're just freaking miserable.

Yes, that title is pretty much just a truism.  But this really takes some nerve.  One of the biggest legal failures in American history, the man who tortured both the word and the spirit of the law in efforts to justify the unjustifiable, torture itself, has the nerve, the audacity, to denigrate Sonia Sotomayor.  It's like John Wayne Gacy criticizing someone's clown abilities.

So the U.K. has blocked Michael Savage from entering the country.  And Savage is outraged:

...I said, "She said this is the kind of behavior we won't tolerate... For my speech? The country where the Magna Carta was created?"

Update: The problem was really because of the .NET settings file.  See below.

Most outrageous sentence ever?  You decide!

Eye can haz Giants games?