Cold War Kids Covering Radiohead? What?

Cold War Kids - Electioneering

This better work. Okay. Deep breaths. Just discovered last.fm and whilst dicking about on that site I discovered an as-yet unheard Cold War Kids track. And it's a cover. I love their covers. And they cover Radiohead. In fact there's a whole damn TRIBUTE album - not for Radiohead in general, just one particular ALBUM. OK Computer. That's how good Radiohead is. You can't tributize THEM. You have to start with one album.

Stupid Stereogum ran outta licenses for downloads but you can stream the whole album HERE.

News Flash - High School Kids Are Sexual

I remember waxing psychotic in a high-school newspaper editorial about how a proposed re-wording of the Exeter sex policy, specifically the declaration that Exeter did not approve of such activity, was as idiotic as it was contrary to nature.

It's nice to see some things never change.

I need to find a copy of that article. It got me in enough trouble...

Colonel of Wisdom - Corps of Engineers v. Toll Road

Col. Magness feels obliged to point out that in fact the Army Corps of Engineers is a neutral party in the Foothill-South toll road process - which means he wasn't pressured by environmentalists or politically motivated when he pointed out the misrepresentations and lies of the Transportation Corridor Agencies. Save Trestles! Save San Onofre!

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Clinton Fishing with Dynamite

In response to Barack Obama's comment at a San Francisco fundraiser that frustrated working-class folk are capable of "antipathy to people who aren't like them," the Clinton campaign is viciously attacking the remarks while at the same time viciously stoking the antipathy of working-class folk to people who aren't like them.

The comment in question, which Obama gave here in town on Sunday April 6, related to the frustration of working-class voters with economic conditions:

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Obama has apologized if his comment was poorly phrased or caused offense, as reported in Saturday's Chronicle, but also stood by his remarks (after clarifying them):

"So I said, well you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on. So people, they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country."


After acknowledging his previous remarks in California could have been better phrased, he added: "The truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That's what sustains us. But what is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they are being listened to."

The Chron quotes former state Democratic Party chairman and current Clinton adviser Tom Hendrickson saying rural voters don't need "liberal elites" telling them what to believe.

Clinton made the following quote before factory-workers in Indianapolis:

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Colbert on Tibet, San Francisco

Army Tackles Toll Road - Save Trestles!

The US Army Corps of Engineers calls the Transportation Corridor Agencies on their misrepresentations of fact concerning the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road.

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Army Kills Toll Road

When supporters of the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road and its builder, the Transportation Corridor Agencies, hear opponents claim they'll stop the project, the reply is usually along the lines of, "You and what army?"

The United States Army, assholes. That's right, the Army is finally providing the necessary firepower to blow the TCA's lies clean out of the sky.

Colonel Thomas H. Magness is District Commander of the Los Angeles District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE). You may remember their fine work on the levees in New Orleans. Colonel Magness sent a letter (Download file) dated April 7 to Thomas Street, staff attorney for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, "to clarify and augment the project's administrative record before you...." The project in question is the Foothill-South extension.

"My staff consistently endeavors to render fair and balanced decisions within the bounds of our implementing regulations and based on the best available information. For this reason, I am compelled to highlight a few areas of the public record where I have found inaccurate statements as well as inferences that misrepresent the Corps preliminary determinations within the context of our CWA and NEPA statutory responsibilities."

Would you believe it gets better?

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