Thursday Night Music Club (Bing and Bowie ed.)

From the obligatory "yes, I'm that old" reminisce, I remember watching this on TV when it first aired--I was a big Bowie fan growing up (and I like Bing more now than I did then). It's "Little Drummer Boy"--a definite must-watch and listen (somewhere, I can hear Jon Lovitz's SNL character shouting "Acting!"). Enjoy--

Major League--starring the Oakland A's

(from CBS Sports)

thought this was a fun piece and as the proud owner of the 2012 2nd place "The Jake Taylor Trio," I felt obligated to post this "analysis." Enjoy--http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-baseball/21107135/breaking-down-the-baseball-movie-major-league

Thursday Night Music Club (Alice's Restaurant ed.)

what? too easy? It is Arlo, Woody's son . . .

enjoy this Thanksgiving tradition--

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(from Americana Music)
The Last Waltz was filmed on Thanksgiving in 1976--best concert film ever.

here's Levon and the boys on "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down"--here

Blackout for Black Friday @ Walmart

 (from Occupy Chicago Twitter)



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(from Robert Reich)

Consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity, but consumers are also workers. And as income and wealth continue to concentrate at the top, and the median wage continues to drop – it’s now 8 percent lower than it was in 2000 – a growing portion of the American workforce lacks the purchasing power to get the economy back to speed. Without a vibrant and growing middle class, Walmart itself won’t have the customers it needs. 

It's why Henry Ford paid his workers 3x what his competitors thought reasonable--it created customers who bought what the company made/provided . . .

Walmart has never embraced this model. At one point recently, 2/3 of their employees in several states received public assistance, and we got cheap stuff from China. 

Reich explains why we shouldn't shop at Walmart this Friday: here 

Union yes!

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from the Daily Kos: how to buy union this Thanksgiving--

Hot Stove Baseball

(from Cleveland Indians Twitter)--the current 40-man roster: here

(CC Lee?! cruel, cruel reminder . . . )

Cleaning House: why Romney lost, et al.

Everyone has an opinion why Romney lost, but Frank Rich says it better and just nails it--his must read "Fantasyland" 

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Below is a gathering of pieces that were going to be springboards into my own pieces or just things that I had intended to share. Seems like a good time to clean out this saved file--lots of stuff worth reading here.

(my original post for this collection below was to be titled "Attack of the Killer Conservatives"; just seems like I'm rubbing it now, though)


(from Glenn Greenwald)
White, right-wing extremists have committed more Terrorist acts in the last decade on US soil than Muslims: http://is.gd/edQ1Z4 #Profiling

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power of political communion--nuns, dems, and cons
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/catholics-and-the-power-of-political-communion.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

another one on nuns and morality gap in the election
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-the-campaigns-moral-hole/2012/10/07/07df4db4-0f1f-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html/?wprss=rss_MobileOpinionsSectionFront&wpmk=MK0000203

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from Paul Krugman, via Bernie Sanders "Disdain for Workers"
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=edcc2cca-f509-4c69-b29c-e71b4490e486

more Krugman, "Inequality Kills"
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/inequality-kills/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

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from The Nation, Citizens United and the Corporate Court
http://www.thenation.com/article/169915/citizens-united-and-corporate-court

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necessary men? and middle class???
http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/30/hanna-rosin-end-men-extract?cat=books&type=article

Thursday Night Music Club (Running on Empty ed.)

not sure why--but my dad has an awesome set of tools. Jackson Browne pretty much does the entire soundtrack to the film for those who came of age in the '80s. Enjoy.

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In Ohio, vote "yes" on Issue 2 (and why)

Dear Fellow Ohioan,

I know that you care about clean air and water and open space...and you want Ohio to enjoy a robust, sustainable economy.

That’s why I am asking you to join me to vote Yes for State Issue 2 – because a Yes vote for Issue 2 is also a vote for the environment.

To learn more about the connection between the environment and Issue 2, please see my column that was just posted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Then, please share this column with your friends via email or Facebook.

And if you haven’t voted already, please vote Yes on State Issue 2. It’s one of the greenest votes you may cast this year.

Thank you!

Sincerely,



Keith Dimoff
Executive Director

The 100th Day of the Romney Presidency (?!)

(2 minutes of "what if?")

http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/entry/the-100th-day-of-the-romney-administration

The Ryan/Romney Economic Plan (in 2 min.)

from Robert Reich:

http://front.moveon.org/everyone-around-you-needs-to-see-this-video-robert-reich-dropped-everything-to-make/#.UJYGgic4Fno.twitter

Thursday Night Music Club (Dustbowl ed.)

getting ready to read some Steinbeck w/ my students; only fitting that I've been listening to some Woody Guthrie. Enjoy--

here's Bob Dylan reading his tribute to Woody (from 1963!)--amazing piece/performance on several levels; check it out.