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ronghorse:

The Replacements-“Can’t Hardly Wait” (Outtake Acoustic)

It’s that staggering, ghostly call-and-almost-response at the end that really seals the deal.

This was recorded, if I remember the story correctly, in a ventilation shaft. Surprisingly, their recording sessions with Chilton “producing” did not yield an album’s worth of releasable material.

Can’t wait for this to make Drudge! (Also, to be fair, the 18-year-old autistic victim was probably a filthy lying ACORN.)

ninety9:

Why is it so hard to find election results? I mean, I admire that the Times did 531 posts about yesterday’s primary (and only 300 of them were by Sewell Chan), but how hard is it to make a page called ‘Results’ and then, you know, putting numbers in it?

NY1!

Guys I am increasingly convinced that THE INTERNET staged this, for the lulz.

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The book chugs along on the fumes of innuendo for 40 pages, until, at last, we arrive at Chapter 2, the piquantly titled “Bitter Half: First Crony Michelle Obama.” The beloved first lady, we learn, “was literally born into the Chicago political corruptocracy.” It is here we start to discern the true intent of our avid narrator “Michelle Malkin”: She is crafting a scathing satire of feminine envy.

In fact, she can’t help casting herself as a kind of doppelgänger. She, too, is a woman of color, a mother of two, a no-nonsense breadwinner. As she sets out damning aspersion after aspersion, the reader starts to catch on: It is “Michelle Malkin” who should be our first lady! Instead, she has been forced to scrap out a living on racial self-hatred and frantic opportunism.

— “Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction”

tehblogs:

Before this dives further into the pit of non sequiturness, let me link to this interesting piece from Gawker on ‘Birthers are the New Truthers but kind of more stupid and definitely more racist. Ok that’s not really the title, but that’s the general gist of the article.

That headline is literally a zillion times better and this person should probably be my editor.

YOU LIE!

And then Emanuel told Wilson to go home and get his shinebox.

An incensed White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel went up to GOP Reps. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.) to complain about the outburst. “No president has ever had that happen,” Emanuel said. “My advice is he apologize immediately. You know my number.” [Milbank]

ninety9:

josephweisenthal:

ninety9:

johncarney:

“…our national life expectancy ranks 42nd among all developed nations. We spend more on medical care that any other nation, and get less than 41 of them. These figures are pretty clear.”

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(via dminkin)

This is the clearest example I’ve seen of the longevity bias. Health care should not be judged by life expectancy alone.

Um, easy enough. Pick a basket of metrics that you think we should measure it by: the only one we lead on is spending per capita, so it doesn’t really matter how you weight them.

Check out recovery rates for injuries. Check out surival rates for people with cancer. Those are two that I know of.

We could do this all day - the point being the gap in per capita spend is NEVER matched by a gap in performance. We are at best 5-15% better in some categories, but our spending is 30% or more higher than all the countries we narrowly outpace.

I think you’re forgetting that we have the best health care system in the world, Nic. And also 9/11.

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maura:

Just trying to get a handle on things here.

Can’t wait for my reality to be augmented with tags and shit! So psyched!