The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog can outwit the fox because he knows one big thing.

I thought it was the good looking fox who only knew one trick?

(Sorry, couldn't resist going along with the theme of the title.)

Posted at August 7, 2006 5:09 PM in response to You Come Around Sounding 1972

the only band that matters

Word.

(*sniff*)

Posted at June 28, 2006 7:27 AM in response to Bad News

Yes, never forget the Kinney!

The song I think has the most wasted potential is Sonic Jihad's "What Would You Do?" (legal free download), an anti-war song that manages to combine some good accusations with total craziness in the same song.   You've got:

Now ask yourself who's the one with the most to gain (Bush)
'Fore 9/11 m-therf-ckas couldn't stand his name (Bush)
Now even n-ggas waivin' flags like they lost they mind
Everybody got opinions but don't know the time

'cause America's been took - it's plain to see
The oldest trick in the book is MAKE an enemy
Of phony evil so the government can do it's dirt
And take away ya freedom lock and load, beat and search

Posted at September 11, 2005 2:06 PM in response to Sing It

Whenever I see the cultish devotion to Bush assert itself like this, I am reminded of a cartoon by August J. Pollak called "Kitten-Off 2004!" that asked fanatical Bush supporters to fill in the blank in the statement "George W. Bush would need to kill ___ kittens with hammers before I considered not voting for him".

Perhaps it is time for a sequel:  "George W. Bush's failed leadership would need to kill ___ poor black people before I considered criticizing him." 

Posted at September 8, 2005 10:52 AM in response to If Only The Czar Knew

If things don't change drastically in the next few hours, I'm afraid that thousands of people in New Orleans are going to be killed for no other reason than because they are poor and had no way of evacuating.  I'm afraid that the American people are about to get a very graphic lesson in how negligent our government has been in protecting its most powerless citizens.

I lived in New Orleans for four years and have a real love for that city.  I've lived in New York, three blocks from the World Trade Center, for the last five and the pain from what we lost here on 9/11 was like nothing I could have imagined.  I'm relieved that all of my friends from Louisiana have safely evacuated to other states, but I dread the heartbreak that awaits them if they return to find their city destroyed.  I feel like someone punched me in the stomach every time I think of the pain they're going to go through. 

Here's praying for a miracle... 

Posted at August 28, 2005 5:04 PM in response to Hurricane

I agree that there are major differences between Chavez and Hussein.  I guess the comparison depends on whether you view Robertson’s statement as unconscionable because he called for the assassination of a democratically elected leader or the assassination of a world leader in general.  If one views assassination to achieve foreign policy goals as unacceptable under all circumstances and not just when you’re talking about an elected leader, Fleisher’s statements are comparably repugnant.

(And I’m preemptively invoking Godwin’s Law, lest this devolve into a “if you had had a chance to kill Hitler, would you have taken it?” thread.)

Posted at August 25, 2005 10:03 AM in response to Robertson's Influence

I find it amusing that people are surprised that the White House won’t condemn Robertson’s statements as against US policy when I distinctly remember Ari Fleisher as Press Secretary saying that we could avoid the cost of the then-looming Iraq War for the price of a single bullet. The minute they do, I imagine the guys at The Daily Show pulling that clip from their hypocrisy files.

Posted at August 25, 2005 8:28 AM in response to Robertson's Influence

Nothing tho compared with "tow [for toe] the line."

MY replies: You should see how are right about bear trimmers.

Posted at August 20, 2005 10:24 PM in response to A Hell of a Parenthesis

Actually, there is a difference between "threaded" and "nested".  Threaded comments work as you describe - the first comment is displayed and then all replies are hidden and require the user to select a link for them to be displayed.  Nested comments show the text of all comments but indent replies relative to their parent comment so thatwho is replying to whom is visually apparent.  Flat comments (the current system) show the text of all comments without visually indicating which ones are replies using indentation.

At least, that is how the terms are conventionally applied.  Some sites may use the terms differently. 

Posted at August 19, 2005 12:51 PM in response to Future Direction of TPMCafe

To tie both topics together, you (and Matt) should check out a production of Tony Kushner's Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy if ever given a chance.  It's his new play about Laura Bush reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov to the ghosts of dead Iraqi children.  I saw it in New York last year and it was very promising.  (At the time, it was still unfinished as Kushner hoped Bush would lose the election and he wouldn't feel compelled to finish it.)

Posted at August 19, 2005 12:23 PM in response to Changing One's Mind