From Paul Krugman's blog:

One thing Chait doesn’t mention, though, is that the willingness of right-wingers to believe this particular myth has a lot to do with projection. On the right, people are for smaller government as a matter of principle - smaller government for its own sake. And so they naturally imagine that their opponents must be their ( Read more... )

Can't believe I beat you to re-posting a hottttt Kara DioGuardi photo spread, tsk.

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Very gross Pazz and Jop Top Whatever this year, but I'm thinking about Massachusetts and the fallout. Need to spend some time with the essays but the albums list is fairly UGH. (Small consolation w/ Dream getting Top 20, I guess, but yyyeeeaahhh....)

Haven't gone through the essay's yet, but Maura's is promising ( Read more... )

Call for entries in the next Da Capo book and I'm having more trouble than usual for nomination ideas. I think that cis and girlboymusic and weasel_seeker all deserve some recognition for Jukebox entries. Will probably nom koganbot's decade-end piece for Las Vegas Weekly. Will also probably nom freakytigger's piece on "Papa Don't Preach" for Popular though there's probably something longer-form ( Read more... )

xposting from Jukebox, here's the cis-suggested and koganbot-requested combo of Shakira and Joy Orbison, fresh from a year-end fite.

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Huh, Miley's screwed vocals are pretty great. Should try pitch shifting this song, since the chopped parts aren't very good and the tempo is way too slow.

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Taking this up from koganbot via Josh Langhoff, top ten singles and albums noting where I heard them first (or from whom). I'll just do albums, since I don't actually have my Top Ten Singles list in front of me (it seems to have been eaten by the internet; didn't get confirmation from Pazz & Jop after submitting my picks this year ( Read more... )

ATTN: LEX -- Cymphonique - "Little Miss Swagga"

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I think I'm going to spend the week doing this -- somewhere in the range of 200 tracks, purely impressionistic by quality/use and not theme (a la the TP5 mixes for Stylus). So there will be some dupes but for the most part I think I'm going to try to avoid stuff I used on that one ( Read more... )

The intro of F2K's fourth-worst song of the decade ("Jump Rope" by Blue October) is actually quite good, so I extracted it and stuck it with the only thing that seemed to fit in the ol' library...drifts a bit out of sync but perfect is the enemy of finishing something in an hour.

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