It’s Sunday night, time to straighten up and fly right in preparation for the arrival of Arkansas’ own electric guitar-playing Sanctified gospel powerhouse singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was “one of gospel music’s first superstars (and) the first gospel performer to record for a major record label.” From an undated ’60s television appearance, here she is performing Up Above My Head.
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Y2Kyoto: Race To The Top
Is there a JournoList for climate researchers? Tom Nelson notices something odd;
Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?
(Well, faster than Chile, at least.)
h/t Don B.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
I want to know why our traffic laws permit this;
The other day I was driving and saw something I have been noticing more frequently lately – a woman behind the wheel wearing a niqab, or face veil, in addition to her hijaab, or head scarf. The opening for her eyes was so narrow, I couldn’t see them.
She could be hiding a cell phone.
h/t Mike
Mike Danger*: Not Incautious Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Liberal Party of Canada, July 24th – A cautious politician* does not give high-fives to kids who are old enough to say the darndest things, in front of a gauntlet of reporters.
Canadian Press, July 25th – “I could see her head, and she wasn’t moving, so that really frightened me, and so I dove right into the water,” said [Industry Minister Tony Clement], who jumped in fully clothed in shorts and a T-shirt.
Liberal conspiracy theories begin in 3… 2… 1…
Meet The New Week, Same As The Old Week
Or, “A measure of public interest in the census debate diversion, in one easy graph“.
Whoops.
“This world-class organization that runs on its image and its supposed professionalism had four different numbers within the same half-hour,” he said.
(While the Toronto Star is busy asking questions: what’s the compliance rate with Canada Revenue Agency?)
The First American Prime Minister Without Training Wheels
“A cautious politician does not ride a bicycle, when there is a risk of falling off and landing on the front page of the newspaper.”
Of course, a press release like this can mean only one thing… the Mole is back!
EBD sees campaign slogan gold!
A cautious politician doesn’t stand on a footstool. A cautious politician doesn’t throw a baseball. A cautious politician doesn’t cross the street at an uncontrolled intersection. A cautious politician doesn’t go out after dark. A cautious politician doesn’t ride a bike. A cautious p…
I dub thee “Mike Danger.”
h/t Iceman
Reader Tips
In the 1950s and ’60s the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller wrote a remarkable number of hit songs, including Stand By Me, Is That All There Is, On Broadway (with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil), Save The Last Dance For Me, Spanish Harlem, Jailhouse Rock, Kansas City, Hound Dog, and many others.
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a live performance of one of their lesser-known songs. From a recording made at a 1966 acid test (note the tempo difficulties) at the Filmore Auditorium in San Francisco, here are the newly-minted Grateful Dead (formerly The Warlocks) performing Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s I’m A Hog For You Baby.
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“So far, he has won every case”
You should have seen the newsrooms the other day when you got out on bail. Senior journalists were wandering around in a daze, smacking their heads in disbelief and calling up their libel lawyers for the first time in years.
Your Conrad Black thread.
Free Gaza
With every $100 purchase. (Fireworks excluded.)
Reader Tips
In 2004 Ray Davies, former frontman for The Kinks, was shot in the leg by a mugger in New Orleans. He fully recovered (a doctor reassured him that New Orleans is “the best place to get shot” because ER staff “had plenty of practice” treating gunshot wounds) and wrote tonight’s selection, a wry take on the uneasy relationship between restless, low-income locals and cash-waving, well lubricated tourists. From 2005, here’s Ray Davies performing The Tourist.
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History Has Never Fully Reconciled My People
Haunted as we are by a record of slavelessness.
Y2Kyoto: Fools And Their Money
[BCAA spokesman Trace Acres] said a Honda Civic hybrid cost only $290 more to operate over five years compared to its gas equivalent, whereas the Toyota Prius cost $1,718 more to operate than its gas equivalent, the Toyota Matrix. Over a five-year period, the cost to own and operate a Honda Insight was $38,326, a Toyota Prius cost $40,324 and the Honda Civic Hybrid cost $42,664.
Still, signs of progress. One model (out of 16 tested] has been found to produce actual cost savings over its gasoline powered equivalent!
The [Mercedes-Benz S400] cost $145,262 to buy and drive over five years, compared to the S450 gasoline model, which cost $150,622.
Because they sell it for less.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Now that context finally matters, prepare for the apology floodgates to open;
And while we’re at it, how about some apologies for all the false allegations by Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Charles Blow and numerous left-wing bloggers claiming that health care protesters were violent, and falsely linking the Tea Parties to the Amy Bishop shooting, the IRS Plane Crasher, the Fort Hood attack, and the Pentagon shooter.
They can start with Rush Limbaugh.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
“Finally, in a third vote taken Wednesday evening, Ann Arbor City Council appointed a horse to office of City Controller.”
The World Still Has Too Many Reporters
Reader Tips
Years ago it was common for comedians and comedic actors to portray stereotyped ethnic characters for laughs. Buddy Hackett’s surly Chinese waiter (“Your brother’s a liar!”) was a standout, as was Peter Sellers’ guileless Hrundi V. Bakshi in Blake Edwards’ comedy film The Party. Tonight’s featured amusement en route to the Tips is a comedy skit about a laconic, hapless Mexican-American who has been chosen – ordered – to be the first man in space. From a 1960 recording, here’s actor/comedian Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez the Astronaut.
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“There will be a gym, a swimming pool, banquet facilities, a klan library…”
BREAKING: Ku Klux Klan buys land adjacent to Martin Luther King center in Atlanta…
Y2Kyoto: We’re Winning
You Might Be A Liberal
If you believe that decriminalizing the census is a bad thing, but that decriminalizing drugs is a good thing – you might be a liberal.*
The New Hockey Stick Graph
