16 August 2007

Double your pleasure

While I was in New York, Susan and I were going from the Met to meet some friends at a pub on the Upper West Side. Walking up Broadway, we happened upon a Tower Records which was having a final liquidation sale. We spent a half hour or so perusing the remainder of their CD selection, which reminded me how little I knew about music. I eventually managed to prize two soundtracks from the store: Thank You For Smoking and My Name is Earl. Upon examining my finds, I found that each of them had a rendition of "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette." WATFO?

I'm keeping both versions on iTunes, because one is by Tex Williams and the other by Sammy Davis, Jr., respectively. If somebody can provide a compelling reason for one track over the other, I'd be happy to hear it.

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03 August 2007

Does this statement really appeal to anyone?

So, I like to lump Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo, and Sam Brownback together as the same candidate, because they clearly engage in the same style of pandering to the churches on the conservative end of the political spectrum. Of course, the Rev. Tim Rude informs me that their differences are more apparent than I initially perceived.

Returning to the title of this post, I am stunned to see that someone with such religious conviction as Tom Tancredo would be wearing
horse-blinders with regard to the sensitivity of 1/5 of the world's population, including at least 1 million of his fellow citizens. It just sounds like someone didn't deal well with bullies growing up.

Hurry up with the straw poll and the caucuses. I want these three to go away. I can deal with McCain, Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani. Oh, and Ron Paul, too. Libertarians are amusing.

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