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Friday, July 17, 2009

My younger son is visiting this weekend, and I asked him to recommend some music for tonight. These videos don’t quite qualify under my usual guidelines, as neither are live performances, but rules are for breaking, or at least bending. Rather than choose between his suggestions, I’m posting both. Yo La Tengo: And Pearl Jam

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Joe Courtney on the “Ed Show”

Friday, July 17, 2009
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The argument in a nutshell

Friday, July 17, 2009

Stephen Colbert and/or his staff of writers is brilliant. Here he precisely summarizes the anti-Sotomayor argument from the right.

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Lost Rivers

Friday, July 17, 2009

Today’s Times reports that there’s a world wide movement to liberate the rivers that flow through many of the world’s cities. Over the course of the last century many were covered with concrete. When I was a kid there were sections of the Park (or Hog, depending on your taste) River that were still running […]

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