Starting in middle school, where I would retreat over to Brad Wilkerson’s house to play Decathlon until our palms bled while listening to Licensed to Ill and continuing in the hallowed halls of good old TU, I developed a huge taste for funk. The thump of B-A-S-S bass, the tweet-tweet of random noise, and the obligatory shaking of one’s rump – man, it just don’t get any sweeter.
In any case Clay Shirkey over at Urban Desires pulls off a deconstruction of “Tear the Roof Off”, one of many Parliment/Funkadelic greatest hits albums. He’s a bit excessively harsh, but I’ll give him a slide for an interesting article.
Better to have funked without true enlightment than never to have funked at all.
I have got to do more research on Kerry. At a peripheral glance I had decided he was the last Democratic candidate I wanted to support — Ok, he was tied for last with Sharpton and Kucinich. Then I take this quiz and discover that according to these nutzoids my top three candidate matches are…you guessed it: Kerry (100%), Sharpton (96%) and Kucinich (95%).
wtf.
I have got to do more research on Kerry. At a preipheral glance I had decided he was the last Democratic candidate I wanted to support — Ok, he was tied for last with Sharpton and Kucinich. Then I take this quiz and discover that according to these nutzoids my top three candidate matches are…you guessed it: Kerry (100%), Sharpton (96%) and Kucinich (95%).
wtf.
“I would say 97 out of 100 of our members who asked questions laid into him pretty good about spending and the lack of discipline on the administration’s part,” Mr. Feeney (R-FLA) said.“I felt like the message had been sent from the people [that Republican lawmakers] had relied on for votes — not just from disgruntled conservatives in the conference,” Mr. Feeney said. “The conference has deep concerns about the Medicare prescription-drug benefits