Monday = Music : Auto-Tune the News

Thursday = WThF? : ???

"We need to be very, very concerned about the harm, for our own children and all of these children...We are creating barbarians. Parents want something other than barbarians living down the street."

-Linda Harvey, spokesperson for NotOurKids, on their objection to the 13th National Day of Silence, organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network "to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment and effective responses"

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Monday = Music : Bill Callahan

So I saw Bill Callahan play a record store show very similar to this one last week, and he was superb! I bought the new album (and, in a gloriously awkward exchange, had him sign it), and I have spent more time listening to it than to Andrew Bird, which says a lot about how great it is. For those unfamiliar with Mr. Callahan, he used to record as Smog, and he is the very baritone backup on Joanna Newsome's "Only Skin".

Wednesday = Words : Glenn Greenwald Smacks Down!

First Obama:

"As much as anything else, what fueled the extreme hostility towards the Bush/Cheney administration were their imperious and radical efforts to place themselves behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and above and beyond the rule of law. It would require a virtually pathological level of tribal loyalty and monumental intellectual dishonesty not to object just as vehemently as we watch the Obama DOJ repeatedly invoke these very same theories and, in this instance, actually invent a new one that not even the Bush administration espoused."

New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ
Keith Olbermann's scathing criticism of Obama's secrecy/immunity claims
TPM: "Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets"
Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now
An emerging progressive consensus on Obama's executive power and secrecy abuses
The differing views of the "rule of law" in Spain and the U.S.

Then the Right:

"All of the enabling legislation underlying this Surveillance State -- from the Patriot Act to the Military Commissions Act, from the various FISA "reforms" to massive increases in domestic "counter-Terrorism" programs -- are the spawns of the very right-wing movement that today is petrified that this is all being directed at them."

The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition

Thursday = WThF? : Euphamism

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Thursday=WThF?: Michele the Sent-Down Girl

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a bill intended to enhance volunteerism in the U.S:

"It's not volunteerism at all. I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."

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Wednesday=Words: Walk

"There is only one way humans are made to move. They are made to walk. There are many other ways to get around. You can canoe, for instance. Or paraglide. Or jog. But these modes of transportation are not the staple of human mobility. Walking is unavoidable, a necessity for those with two working legs.

The entire scheme of nature, and the human's place within it, is built around the understanding that humans use their legs to move. It's a great unspoken assumption. The earth expects humans to walk."

-Bill Bunn

Thursday = WThF?

NRA spokesman Bart Barnaby stated “food lovers and gun lovers have a ton of things in common, maybe for the food lover it’s seeking out that crazy fish you kind of know you’re not supposed to eat, while for the gun lover it’s killing that animal that might be considered kind of borderline endangered.”

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Wednesday = Words: The Inevitable

"You know, I see so many parallels between what’s happening in our economy overall and what’s happening in our food systems, there are parallel philosophies. We’ve over-valued certain things, we’ve forgotten certain things. Just like the money between banks in this way that everyone is counting it as collateral and we have home prices ascending but everyone knew it was a paper empire that was going to collapse. This is the same as planting 20 million acres of a GMO corn in the first year that this corn is released. Inevitably, there are going to be problems with that. That we are going to break down the reciprocity with a particular pest control, whether it’s inserted into the genome of the corn or hand applied by an organic gardener corn silk, we are going to lose the effectiveness of any pest control strategy if we put it out on 20 million acres at the same time. So, the probability that we are going to see a collapse of industrial agriculture parallel with the related collapse of our financial system is just not prophecy, its inevitability."

-Gary Nabhan interview at Civil Eats