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Today’s Music: Jerry Lee Lewis and Eric Clapton, “Trouble in Mind”

The Killer and Slow Hand wring some heavy blues out of this old tune.

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Republican Bag Ladies

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Signs o’ the Times for May 22, 2012

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Today’s Quotes: Money, Money, Money

“Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.” — Sophocles, “Antigone.” “Money: the cause of, and solution to, … Continue reading

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Today’s Music: Four Versions of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”

From 1929, a traditional version as performed by one of the ‘Queens of the Blues’ Bessie Smith: B.B. King (with little guitar but great piano) fries it up: Derek and the Dominos featuring Eric Clapton and Duane Allman take it … Continue reading

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President Mitt Romney, Sex Detective

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Weird Pix for May 21, 2012

1. “Now, who’s got the Lydia Pinkham tonic?” 2. “More lard with my merlot, my good man!” 3. This is eithar an illustration showing that reading can improve your perspective, or an instruction to convicts on how to use books … Continue reading

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Video: Big Bucks, Big Pharma

Our ‘medicines’ are killing us.

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Wordy-Gurdy: How I Met My Wife

Originally published in the July 25, 1994 edition of the New Yorker magazine: How I Met My Wife By Jack Winter It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my … Continue reading

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Today’s Music: Stuart Hamm’s Bass Solo at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1988)

From Beethoven to country, Joe Satriani’s bassist Stuart Hamm runs it all on four thick strings in an incredible virtuoso performance.

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