Way back when, there was a little group in Austin fronted by a guy named David (it’s Dah-veed ) Garza with clever lyrics, tight arrangements, and the ability to drive drunk Texas co-eds crazy.

Their songs can be found here

Unfortunately, the band broke up over artistic differences, leading to other terrible changes in Austin such as the crash in affordable housing, the closing of marginally safe but time-tested venues such as Liberty Lunch.

Rockstar Games, the people who brought us Grand Theft Auto III, held a design competition called rockstar games upload III which produced some pretty cool stuff. The best IMO is Drum Machine .

Get back to old school 2D Shooters with Real Space from java-gaming.com. (That’s right, you geek: it’s a java-based game!) Power-ups, mission scenarios, funky soundtrack — it’s got it all.

Here are the proud winners. Yes, your children are doomed to be underage sweatshop laborers as a result of Bush’s economic policies. Maybe that is why we want to throw out immigration policy out the window – so THEIR kids can be underage sweatshop laborers to pay for GWB’s economic policies… yeah, that’s the ticket!

In a related story, this morning Katie Couric was interviewing Paul O’Neill on the Today Show and she reels this off in a deficit discussion with the esteemed ex-Secretary of the Treasury:
“I’m no expert on economics Mr. O’Neill, but itsn’t there a specific school of thought, Keynsian specifically, that asserts that deficits have no long-term economic impact?” It made me giggle. I don’t know why…. :-)

And principle for life:

tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.

2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.

No doubt if I worked on it, I could evolve some kind of double-talk that would get around the offensive phrase, and make the, to me, face-saving implication; but to hell with that, I have too much respect for the English language, and for your understanding of it, to go in for tergiversation and weasely circumlocution.
—Richard Gillman, “Standing Up to Ezra Pound,” [1]New York Times, August 25, 1991

Not one but two articles today at Salon discussing attacks on Dean. I particularly liked this question/answer (even though it sounds like it was prepared.)

Fineman: “Do you have a favorite Bible passage or book or theologian?”

Dean: “I like the Book of Job.”

They also ran an article on Al Sharpton attacking Dean’s race record but I wonder if Salon will mention the Gephardt race issues that are slowly emerging.