Author: PJ

Now Hear This: Celebrating One of the Most Iconic Albums in Rock | The Daily Banter   God save the Queen; she ain’t no human bean….   Speaking of anniversaries and the queen… It’s also the anniversary week of the Queen’s opening of the National Theatre at the Old Vic…

  No doubt public education will be a topic of discussion for the upcoming elections in 2014 and 2016, and most likely those discussions will include mention of how crucial education infrastructure is for a healthy economy, which is true. At the same time, what so often gets marginalized in…

More idle Halloween distraction because Halloween is just so darn fun.   Hey Shindiggers – The full episode of Shindig’s Halloween episode from 1965 is a smile-maker if you’re into this kind of nostalgia. I seek out the nostalgia every Halloween season. The Monster Mash is one thing, but the…

From October 28th:” Breaking: halfway to goal to tilt my possible Congressional campaign v. Paul Ryan”   After meeting with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Kaleka positions himself as anti-establishment, bucking the system, bi=partisan, and moderate: Ryan challenger meets fundraisers, party officials in Washington, D.C. According to Kaleka, the powerful…

What’s Halloween without Hammer Films? And what would Hammer Films be without Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee? Another Halloween montage. Just for fun. Happy Halloween!     Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee is 91 years old and he’s still acting. Not the oldest old goat still hoofing it…

Of the more interesting characters emblematic of the “Horror” season are Vincent Price and Peter Lorre. For a Happy  Halloween to all, a short montage honoring them both:   Some Vincent Price trivia nabbed from Wikipedia and IMDb: “According to Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela…

Thursday music on Wednesday. Lyric Translation The child is laid in its cradle, sometimes crying, sometimes smiling. The child is laid in its cradle, sometimes crying, sometimes smiling Sleep, now sleep in Jesus’ name; Jesus watch over this child. Sleep, now sleep in Jesus’ name; Jesus watch over this child…

The 1% Propaganda Echo Chamber reverberates… a microcosm: Matt Kibbe tweets an article by Tyler Cowen, see The Hideous and Insidious – A Glimpse at the Sinuous 1% (Part One). Tyler Cowen tweets an article by Libertarian faux-populist extraordinaire, Ross Douthat:  A Bad Way to Bash Republicans. And to continue from The…

A little delay in posting these…   Supreme Court to Take Up Greenhouse Gas Limits | Mother Jones   Why the Supreme Court Taking On Greenhouse Gases Isn’t As Bad As It Looks   What Happens Once the Supreme Court Rules on Greenhouse Gases?   A little more recent: Super…

  Over the weekend, Tom Kludt at TPM published a far too brief, but interesting Shutdown follow up.  His piece scratched the surface of the Koch Brothers Political War Machine by drawing attention to Matt Kibbe’s Tweet linking to Tyler Cowen’s post-shutdown analysis of the GOP: Freedom Works CEO: Shutdown,…