Thursday Music: “…the sun’s zooming in…” [UPDATE}

UPDATE: Wow… Apparently both Ed and I want you to see this video this week… 🙂  Given the millions of videos on YouTube, it’s an unbelievable convergence of circumstance that we both hit on the same one. Continuing my fascination with cool covers, here’s one for you.  Bruce covers Joe…

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Thursday Music: “…those killers in America work seven days a week…”

The Only Band that Matters.

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Spend an Hour with the Master

Paul Krugman gives a talk at the LSE (The London School of Economics).  With slides!  

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Bond Vigilantes: Any Day Now!

Run for the hills!!!!  Or not… (h/t Mike Norman) You can play with the data on FRED.

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Democratic Irony is Nearly As Ironic as GOP Irony

I find it… well… ironic that the DNC released an ad touting their public sector union cred when they failed so catastrophically to engage in the single biggest public employee union fight in the last 30 years in any meaningful way.  I’m not buying the excuse that President Obama couldn’t find…

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29%

That’s the number of card carrying union voters who marked their ballots for Scott Walker last Tuesday. Jay Gould would be so proud…  Solidarity is what happens to other people, I guess.

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Trickle-Down Economics Is Working As Designed!

The economic system known as Reaganomics has been at work in The United States since 1981 and, as far as I can tell, is working as designed.  Here’s more evidence of the stunning success of supply-side economics (or, as George H. W. Bush referred to it, voodoo economics). WASHINGTON —…

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Thank You Haters!

A little ditty I’d like to dedicate to all our helpful RWNJ trolls here at Blogging Blue.  Special dedication to Smeety, Dante and Notalib…

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Raymond Chandler Parodies Science Fiction

Completely off-topic but I had to share.  Hilarious! 6005 Camino de la Costa La Jolla, California Mar 14 1953 Dear Swanie: Playback is getting a bit tired. I have 36,000 words of doodling and not yet a stiff. That is terrible. I am suffering from a very uncommon disease called…

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“…an environment that’s not just polarized but tribal…”

The modern Republican party has become so severely dysfunctional that it is destroying the body politic. From a discussion by Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein at U.C. Berkeley on May 18, 2012: Norm Ornstein: And let me just add, in a personal note, Tom and I have had great success as partners…

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