Twice a day up pops a new cover of “Blackbird” on YouTube. I put the best on Blackbird Fly. Also “Moon River” on You Heart Breaker, “I Will” on Your Song Will Fill the Air, “Ue O Muite Aruko” on I Look Up As I Walk, love songs on Meet Me in Montauk, Beatles covers on Love Them? We Still Do and holiday music and hymns on To All My Friends… Global! Enjoy.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Still Have Cash? Wall Street Wants to Talk.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Inside the Health Care Reform Sausage Factory.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
I like train wrecks as much as the next person.
But, unlike my colleagues on Woman Up, I don’t think Tiger Woods qualifies.
Millionaire sports hero cheats on wife. With numerous skanks. All from central casting. Sounds like a dog-bites-man story to me and not worthy of my precious schadenfreude time.
While utterly worthless at first glance, imploding celebrities do serve a purpose. I know of a hospitalized 93-year-old man who hung on a few days longer when the Bernie Madoff scandal was breaking….
Read the rest on AOL. In Defense of Skanks.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Joe Lieberman’s Killin’ ‘em in Vegas.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
On Friday word came down that Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, 74 years old, had died. Within minutes Facebook was awash in the news. Radio DJs announced they were planning tributes. Others, including me, posted Clancy Brothers videos.
I found a clip of Liam Clancy singing “The Patriot Game,” the ballad written by Dominic Behan, brother of renowned Irish playwright Brendan Behan. I had not heard the song in years, but even so, I discovered I knew it by heart.
I am neither Catholic nor descended from Irish ancestors, but you could not have guessed that from my family’s record collection. While my parents also had bagpipe music and such evocative titles as “Folk Music from Many Lands,” we had every record ever released by The Clancy Brothers.
“The Patriot Game” was included in their landmark 1964 album “The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in Person at Carnegie Hall.” That one album gave me more of a political and geographic education than my Dallas teachers ever could.
I didn’t know much about Ireland, or New York for that matter. What was Carnegie Hall? I only knew it was important by the way the audience thundered their approval at one particular anecdote the Clancy Brothers – probably Liam, since he was reputed to be the storyteller of the group – told that November evening in 1961…
Read the rest on AOL. Liam Clancy Brought Ireland – and Politics – to My Front Door.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Heckuva Jobs Summit, Obama.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
A happy marriage is a wonderful thing. Too bad it’s wasted on the happily married.
Some people have been so lucky they have to invent problems in order to have something to say. As in ten pages of The New York Times magazine.
Or, put another way: They’ve been up so long, it looks like down to them.
“A More Perfect Union” by Elizabeth Weil explores what happens when a “good enough” marriage goes poking around in therapy sessions and marital classes.
The story was just engaging enough that I kept reading. I kept hoping. I admit that about halfway through, I was slogging. But I didn’t quit! Surely, I thought, this story will eventually crystallize, and yield some gem of wisdom.
Maybe all this gratuitous marriage therapy will lead to a divorce! That would be a nice, ironic twist. Or maybe her husband will run off with the sadistic, manipulative, depraved lover from his past…
Read the rest on AOL. The Yadda Yadda Monologues.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Dick Cheney, Just Go Away.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Obama & Afghanistan: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Before you haul yourself to the shopping mall for the American ritual known as Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving, when retail merchants leap out of the red ink and into the black), consider giving yourself a little holiday gift
I’m not saying that just because of the recession. Or because in 1989 I ventured on to the Houston freeway system on the day after Thanksgiving and developed a traffic phobia that persists to this day.
Gifts can hurt…
Read the rest on AOL. An Ungifter’s Guide to Black Friday.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Lou Dobbs has quit his news anchor job at CNN, his network home for three decades. Currently he’s considering all kinds of offers, including opportunities in politics.
Dobbs has a reputation as an anti-immigration racist and a right-wing nut. His detractors lump him in with Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck. And, of course, Hitler.
I confess – for years I watched the now-defunct “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on CNN. Whenever I let that detail slip, friends respond with shock or horror. Or both. But that’s because they assume I watched Dobbs for his politics. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Lou is the grandfather I never knew. If you factor in his use of language – words like balderdash and phrases like “preening buffoons” and “lily-livered cowards” – he’s the great-great grandfather I never knew…
Read the rest on AOL. Lou Dobbs: The Haters Are Wrong.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. With Lou Dobbs Gone, CNN Finds the Middle.
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New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Lou Dobbs, We’ll Miss You.
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My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Oh Ryan. Oliver Barrett the fourth you ain’t.
I’ve read how Mr. O’Neal was not upset that he was left out of Farrah’s will. Yeah, right, says your son Griffin.
At least Farrah managed to reinvent herself. I, for one, was put off by Farrah’s grimace-like smile in her famous poster, and her skill as an actress was far below par.
Her performances called to mind the words of critic John Simon regarding another blond beauty queen turned actress: “She came across like one of those inanimate objects, say, a cupboard or a grandfather clock, which is made in certain humorous short subjects to act, through trick photography.”
But Farrah’s opaque acting style served her well when she played the emotionally-stunted killer in Small Sacrifices…
Read the rest on AOL. Remember Farrah! Remember Goliad!
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