Blogging on Meds

RELATED POSTS:

• music video for SAMIAM is DONE!!!
• Police brutality against skateboarders, AGAIN.
• Start Today
• Today’s Reads
• Today’s Reads

Proof that evil existis… Bill O’Reilly, in his new book, uses his existence to argue against Atheism. Seriously. Really! I read this on Oxdown Gazette… it made my day.

Bill writes:

Next time you meet an atheist, tell him or her that you know a bold, fresh guy, a barbarian who was raised in a working-class home and retains the lessons he learned there.

Then mention to that atheist that this guy is now watched and listened to, on a daily basis, by millions of people all over the world and, to boot, sells millions of books.

Then, while the non-believer is digesting all that, ask him or her if they still don’t believe there’s a God!

REMINDER: God also made Manson, Hitler and Mark Levin - all pretty successful dudes by their own standards.

Sweet Jesus, I hate BillO

RELATED POSTS:

• Geoff Kenyon: The Clintonization of 2008
• Party/Godless Commie Bastards
• Achtung! Politicians Aren’t That Cool
• Qucik-y on Power/Monster Flap
• NYT Has 50xs More Readers Online than in Print

Watching Barack Obama handle an unhinged Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, just gives me the real kind of gut reaction that Obama will be able to handle anybody he comes into contact with, including dictators, corporate criminals and unruly pundits. He’s consistently kept his cool throughout this campaign in all sticky situations while his opponents’ campaign has been fueld by fake outrage and lies.

I don’t think the right wing could possibly imagine that Obama is an empty suit after this.

Since Bill O’Reilly caused a ruckous, Barack has been handling him and I think Bill has a crush.

RELATED POSTS:

• Political Tourists: Live at Chili’s Nashua, NH, January 2008
• Iowa Caucus Results
• caucus caca and the next steps
• “Hopemonger” - Obama’s full speech from the 100 Club Dinner
• Hope’s Frontline: Obama’s Stump Speech Deconstructed, Bill O’Reilly Scuffles With Obama Staffer

That’s right baby!  Howard Wolfson, erstwhile communications director for Hillary Clinton and current Fox News Channel contributor, is now an indie rock blogger!  His new blog, Gotham Acme, provides Wolfson’s “musings about music, and, from time to time, politics.”  So far he’s unearthed such unknowns as TV On The Radio (”America’s best band”), Drive By Truckers and The Hold Steady, pictured above (”Two of America’s best live bands!”).  So if you’re daring enough to go off the beaten Beltway path, log on and tune in!!  (By the way, Washington Post political writer Chris Cillizza’s favorite band is Wilco, the greatest band you’ve never heard of.)

Are Gen-X’ers the new baby boomers?  Just like our parents who will never get over how proud they are of Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Ravi Shankar (like they were responsible for them or something), washed up Gen-X’ers will never miss an opportunity to tell you they saw Einsturzende Neubauten and Camper Van Beethoven during freshman year in college.  The worst midlife crisis cases will always feel like they need to know the next cool “underground” band, which happens to be in Rolling Stone.

To be fair, unlike boomers, Gen-X’ers were on some legitimate shit back in the day.  They rocked Sonic Youth, Black Flag, the Meat Puppets, Bad Brains, Violent Femmes, Replacements, Dinosaur Jr…. the list goes on.  Whether or not you’ve actually listened to any of those bands in the last decade, they were definitely pretty cool in the 80s and sound a hell of a lot better today than the Arctic Monkeys will in 20 years.  Hell, music that came out five years ago is already unlistenable (Kings of Leon?)  How’s that for longevity.

(This is giving Howard Wolfson the benefit of the doubt that he’s even young enough to belong to Generation X.  I have no idea.  He looks older in that picture than others of him.)

RELATED POSTS:

• always finding jems
• Geoff Kenyon: The Clintonization of 2008
• caucus caca and the next steps
• Denied at Hillary Clinton in Hampton
• The Last Days of the Clinton Dynasty? Or Does Hillz Have the Balls to Beat Obama?