Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I took con law pass/fail, but this must be wrong on some level, like maybe not treason but not especially good citizenship?

Pandering to wingnuts seems like a bad idea.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

That is so very Not Bob. I suppose I can't tie Carter to UK releases, but at home, and better:

Of all the Not Bobs, I am the Not Bobbiest.

Ah, Cheap Trick - I always think of them as springing onto the scene the following year, fully-formed like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, with the release of Live in Budokan. But that is merely my memory of how they sprung into my awareness.

And my list was not meant to be all-inclusive, and I simply picked the first two albums that I was aware of in 1977 and think are, even now, good. (To be clear, Rumors is a stone-cold classic, while Changes is just (hah! "just") really good.) I mean, I didn't mention Elvis Costello's My Aim is True because I wasn't introduced to it until several years later.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So you're giving Gerald Ford credit for The Ramones? Roxy's Country Life credit to Nixon?

I definitely think Nixon should get some credit for Roxy's Country Life. I'd give him credit for all of Woodstock in a way.

Carter gets credit for the heyday of CBGBs. That was on his watch. We're talking Patti Smith here. The Stilettos. Joan Jett. The Shirts. He was also in the big house for the birth of Rap. Grandmaster Flash. Sugarhill Gang. Gil Scott Heron.

Carter was the man.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I took con law pass/fail, but this must be wrong on some level, like maybe not treason but not especially good citizenship?

Texans are often not fond of the constitution. I'm glad the government is finally taking action to represss them.

But it doesn't seem entirely fair to Utah.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

I wish we could get Congressmen to just say no to drugs.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I took con law pass/fail, but this must be wrong on some level, like maybe not treason but not especially good citizenship?

Someone has to watch out for the black helicopters, no?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

That is so very Not Bob. I suppose I can't tie Carter to UK releases, but at home, and better:

Yeah, but John Bonham died while Carter was in office. Worse yet, his death was too late to prevent the release of In Through The Out Door.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

That is so very Not Bob. I suppose I can't tie Carter to UK releases, but at home, and better:

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Yeah, but John Bonham died while Carter was in office. Worse yet, his death was too late to prevent the release of In Through The Out Door.

"All of My Love" is basically Elvis. But I have a soft spot for "In the Evening."

If I had to kill one Zeppelin record, it'd be:



Yeah, "Achilles' Last Stand" is decent, but the rest of it sounds intentionally off tempo. Miserably unfun record.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Of course, if you are looking for looting, look no further than Fox, who makes a fortune abusing, insulting and maligning the victims of police behavior.

If I hear one more fucking white suburban douchebag, or clueless fucking soccer mom, talk about how that woman who admonished her son for rioting on camera is a "hero," I'm going to snap the bottom of my martini glass off and spear them in the eye with it... until it punctures their cerebral cortex.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Motherfucker. Goddammit! Fuck, fuck, fuck! The city is on fire due to protests that have to do with police brutality and decades of govt policies that are turning lower middle class areas into third world slums. Now, we might disagree about what should be done about these things. Frankly, I don't think the situation is fixable. But what's not up for debate is that the situation exists, and has been caused in significant part by govt policies and changes in the global economy! The most important and interesting aspect of this thing is not that some Black mother is mad at her son for rioting. And anyone who elevates such a peripheral bit of the story to prominence betrays one of the following:

1. Idiocy (you're actually stupid enough to think the mother/son scene is as important as the broader issues underpinning the riot);
2. Head in Sand-ism (you'd rather focus on any bit of the story that seems possibly positive and allows you to ignore or avoid discussion of the broader issues underpinning the riot); or,
3. Dickheadedness (you're an asshole looking for any way to blame the rioters exclusively, and absolve the system/status quo, which you happen to like, from any responsibility).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Long Hot Summer

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Black mother is mad at her son for rioting.

Was she mad at him for rioting or scared that he would end up like Freddie Gray?

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

That is so very Not Bob. I suppose I can't tie Carter to UK releases, but at home, and better:

Fuck that shite. The Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If I hear one more fucking white suburban douchebag, or clueless fucking soccer mom, talk about how that woman who admonished her son for rioting on camera is a "hero," I'm going to snap the bottom of my martini glass off and spear them in the eye with it... until it punctures their cerebral cortex.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Motherfucker. Goddammit! Fuck, fuck, fuck! The city is on fire due to protests that have to do with police brutality and decades of govt policies that are turning lower middle class areas into third world slums. Now, we might disagree about what should be done about these things. Frankly, I don't think the situation is fixable. But what's not up for debate is that the situation exists, and has been caused in significant part by govt policies and changes in the global economy! The most important and interesting aspect of this thing is not that some Black mother is mad at her son for rioting. And anyone who elevates such a peripheral bit of the story to prominence betrays one of the following:

1. Idiocy (you're actually stupid enough to think the mother/son scene is as important as the broader issues underpinning the riot);
2. Head in Sand-ism (you'd rather focus on any bit of the story that seems possibly positive and allows you to ignore or avoid discussion of the broader issues underpinning the riot); or,
3. Dickheadedness (you're an asshole looking for any way to blame the rioters exclusively, and absolve the system/status quo, which you happen to like, from any responsibility).

I have found that if you ignore twitter, yahoo/yahoo comments, espn comments, and use facebook infrequently, these type of inane soccer mom comments (or any other idiocy) cease to exist. It's glorious - try it out.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

what is your fave Jimmy buffet LP?

The one about parrots and old pot-bellied white dudes in horrible fucking shirts.