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This is a sad day in American history. Fred Thompson–better known as Larry the Cable Guy’s favored candidate–has dropped out of the running. Who would have guessed that this would happen to the former lobbyist, who didn’t announce his candidacy until September and has refused to participate in any of the major debates? Well, the Huckster is still an available candidate for those who want to see America’s future destroyed the “fun” way.
Check out these remarkably poignant parting words. America is #1 because we’re willing to kill more people than anyone else to prove that killing is wrong:
Best iPhone Hack Yet?
I think so-ooo! I just installed this, and it rocks (literally?)!
I Love It When Game Geeks Are Placed In Charge Of Things…
“Fighting Terrorism By Creating It…”
Leading Church Bodies, 2000
This map shows the dominance of churches by county in 2000. It is a map of only churches. The study did not look at other religions or the non-religious. That said, it’s pretty interesting. Click for larger view.
Battle Rap Between a Jack O’ Lantern and a Cigar Store Indian
Huckabee is more fucked up than i thought
wow. wow. holy shit man. Mike (F)Huckabee says we should amend the constitution to fit with “god’s standards”. What is he talking about!? This guy should go to one of those fundamentalist countries where they tolerate religious doctrine as government law. Not in my country, bitch!
Im not sure who’s preferable, the phony mormon dumb-ass Romney, or the religious nut job douche-nozzle Huckabee. God i hope McCain lays the smack down on both of them.
Live free or die!
Dr. Paul is allowed to speak by Fox again… How nice of them…
From last night 1/10.08…
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Best Album of 2007?
Not only is Radiohead’s In Rainbows the best album of 2007, it is the best album the band has ever released. It is certainly not as adventurous Kid A, and there may not be an overarching storyline that grips the listener like the machine takeover did in OK Computer. But Radiohead accomplishes something here that they missed in their earlier endeavors: they have created an album that is uniformly consistent from start to finish.
It is rare to find an album devoid of filler or throwaway tracks, but each song within In Rainbows feels cared for with extreme deliberation, as if the songs were hand crafted by master tradesmen. This is the band’s most optimistic music to date, with lush string instrumentations and honey drenched vocals from Thom Yorke that provide the album with a romantic tone. Even so, this is still a Radiohead album, and the unsettling metaphors still pop up frequently–Yorke explains “I’m an animal trapped in your hot car” in “All I Need”–but they have a sweeter intent in this collection. The crazy computer voices still pop up, and there are moments of techno beats and Mellotrons, but the band sounds more like a band on this album than they have in a long time.
This shift in tone is just as much of an experiment as the weird voices were in Kid A and the choppy sound production was in Hail to the Thief. Radiohead brought themselves far beyond the precipice of what everyone else was doing, but that sort of pioneering cannot continue indefinitely. It is a fine line between pushing the boundaries of sound and rehearsing in self-indulgence, and the band has wisely reigned in their experiments before they became another Sonic Youth.
This music has been upstaged by Radiohead’s innovative method of distributing the music, which may have been a glimpse of things to come for the whole industry. Despite this, the band has put forth an exemplary collection that will become one of the most revered albums in the decade.
Here’s what the field experts chose for the best albums of 2007:
Pitchfork Media: Panda Bear, Person Pitch
Rolling Stone Magazine: M.I.A., Kala
Spin Magazine: Against Me!, New Wave
Blender Magazine: M.I.A., Kala