Noticed a hit tonight from Mississippiwiki. They have a blog list.
I don’t remember adding myself or sending a request. Thanks to whoever thought of doing that for me.
Added MSwiki to Mississippi Links category, and the blog list to the Hubroll.
Working on part two of “Everything I Know About the Alabama PACT.” Just wasn’t able to get it done last night, but I did update the PACT Project page.
SaveAlabamaPACT is now live, and they have forums.
How about some Dr. Hook?
Ben Harper. I love that drum in this particular performance.
Hadn’t thought of this song in a long time until I read this excellent post.
Filed under: Economy, music, Politics | Tags: Alabama, Alabama PACT, Alabama Prepaid Affordable Tuition Fund, PACT
Because you can never have too much of the Pogues.
Working to get a post or two on PACT together now.
Havealittletalk has uncovered some interesting things about what Kay Ivey does with her summers. This past summer, for instance, she was a panelist on the “Treasurers Innovation Roundtable” at the National Association of State Treasurers conference, which was held at a swanky resort in Maine. And guess what the topic was?
I’ll let the program tell you:
“Hon. Kay Ivey, Alabama: Achieving Accountability with Strategic Planning”
I find the word “innovation” striking in this context. For years, mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps were called “innovative” financial products. Of course, a couple of months after Ivey attended that conference , the Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed. I haven’t heard anyone using the word “innovative” for those financial products since then.
I don’t see much evidence of strategic planning with PACT. It looks more like they took the money and gambled for short-term profits to me. And I don’t see how you get to accountability through strategic planning. It looks like an unintentional non-sequitur to me.
The way you achieve accountability is by maintaining a high degree of transparency.
Filed under: music, Personal, Politics, Progressive, wake up | Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie
This one song has as much to do with my politics as any other single thing I can think of. Everyone’s done it, of course. When I was 13 or 14 I saved for months for my first boxed set – Bruce and the E-Street Band Live, 1975-85. It includes a track of this song.
The speech on the album is different than the one here. It begins by noting that this is an angry song and an answer to “God Bless America.” It ends with the line:
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
HUGE impression on my young mind. This track is better, because it includes the all-important last verse. The one that’s so often left out.
Woody Guthrie himself, and one of my favorite images of all time, h/t to Melange, from a nice Guthrie bio:
The music is important.
Slept in today and woke up with this song in my head. Haven’t thought of these guys in years.
Cello Trio Melo-M jammin the 99 Red Balloons. My sister turned me on to this group recently. They do all sorts of stuff, and are a lot of fun to watch. Sadly, I was unable to locate a live clip of them doing this one. But the stills are nice, and there are clips of them playing other tunez live here.
Filed under: music, Politics, Progressive | Tags: Alabama, conspiracy theories, outrageous, winguts
The Brothers Cohen take on Clean Coal.
Monkeyfister gives Leonard Cohen a big WOW!
I attempt to decipher the latest wingnut warfare against the qualified, legitimately-elected POTUS.
And, no, you really can’t make this sh*t up!
Classic:
Probably not much posting or commenting for me until late this evening, or maybe even tomorrow.
Filed under: Media, music, Politics, Progressive | Tags: Alabama, class warfare
Boo! Richard Shelby. And give The Cullman Times a round of applause.
D-day points out a that a Democratic governor is preparing to sign on with Barbour, Riley, Jindal and their ilk in their effort to turn down unemployment funds from the Recoveray and Reinvestmant Act.
Conservatives: Totally not sexy.
Love these guys:
Hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to what I was doing over here by the end of this week or early next.
Filed under: Blogs, Depression, Economy, music, Politics, Progressive, Suggested Reading
Looks like that excellent bartender, Billmon, is back (and, thankfully, doing his best to help us understand our economic problems).
Eve of Destruction. Covered by The Pogues! Sadly, there’s no video to go along with the music, but the banjo and whistle make this track totally worth a listen.
Apologies for the lack good writing here lately. I’m looking at another week of the same, I think.
Filed under: music
And this is a very nice performance. I am not sure the Cowboy Junkies are doing him justice here, but I think they deserve a lot of credit for trying.
