Breaking! Fracking pollutes!

(via Josh Fox)

ho, hum. A Harvard study (yawn) on fracking shows that natural gas is not the panacea that some (BO?) have led you to believe. It really, truly pollutes the atmosphere by releasing its byproduct methane during drilling and production. I know, shocking.

Here's the stupid science that obviously some silly liberal just made up (you read, you decide--haha):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kessler/harvard-study-blows-apart_b_4393599.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Top 50 albums of 2013

(from Paste Magazine)

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/12/the-50-best-albums-of-the-year.html?p=5

Thursday Night Music Club (another Loretta Lynn??? ed.)

you may have seen her performance on the Grammys, but here's Kacey Musgraves with "Merry Go 'Round," from her Same Trailer, Different Park album. Not the usual vapid, bubblegum stuff you might expect--really worth a listen if you haven't caught her yet (I know, I know). Enjoy. 

Pete Seeger, RIP

sad, sad news--Pete Seeger has passed away at 94. What a role-model on how to lead one's life. I never knew how much he was woven into things until I started to pay attention (we used to sing several of his songs when I was in elementary school in the '70s).

Here's a nicely detailed obituary from the NYT to remember (and learn about) Pete: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0


--Pete on the Johnny Cash Show:

--(via Tim Easton)

Steve Earle sings "Steve's Hammer--I'm Gonna Lay This Hammer Down" (for Pete): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx9SGI97wuU&app=desktop


--(via Tom Morello)

Pete w/ some friends you might recognize, from his 90th birthday celebration @ MSG:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/pete-seegers-90th-birthday-celebration-from-madison-square-garden/seeger-and-friends-perform-this-land-is-your-land/816/

--(via Josh Fox)

here is the transcript from Pete's HUAC testimony: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6457 

--(from The Week)

8 Songs to Remember Pete Seeger by: http://theweek.com//article/index/255630/8-songs-to-remember-pete-seeger-by 

--from Gawker, 94 Reasons why Pete Seeger matters: http://gawker.com/94-reasons-pete-seeger-matters-in-2014-1510562885?rev=1390924218&utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

NFL 1961--the QB's in one photo

(from Deadspin)

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/fourteen-nfl-quarterbacks-play-nice-in-a-chicago-photo-1472029686?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

All-time Cleveland Indians

CBS Sports provides their all-time Cleveland Indians (working their way through other franchises, too). Nice time to read this as the Jim Thome statue will be dedicated this summer, joining Bob Feller. 

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24414720/all-time-single-season-team-cleveland-indians

Thursday Night Music Club (No Depression ed.)

(from Spin)

review of Uncle Tupelo's No Depression re-issue. Whether you know the band or not, check out the review here: http://www.spin.com/reviews/uncle-tupelos-no-depression-reissue/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

*here's the first track--"Screen Door."

*and another one, "Whiskey Bottle"--enjoy.

re: "Dr. V's Magical Putter" (& So Much More)

-if you didn't catch this over the weekend, you really need to read the article and then read about the article. Fascinating, yet ultimately, sad, tragic piece of journalism, on many levels. 

here's the original piece from Grantland (subdivision of ESPN) that got everything going: 
http://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v/


Think Progress asks the questions many of us are thinking (and then some) after reading the original :
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/01/19/3183711/grantland/


this piece analyzes the article (and the context, the journalism, the lack of awareness)--pretty spot on deconstruction.
http://mariadahvanaheadley.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/sinatras-cold-is-contagious-hostile-subjects-vulnerable-sources-the-ethics-of-outing/ 


another piece takes the author and Grantland to task for the shoddiness:
http://deadspin.com/how-grantland-screwed-up-the-story-of-essay-anne-vander-1505368906 


*see above
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/01/essay_anne_vanderbilt_dr_v_s_magical_putter_grantland_s_expos_of_a_trans.html


from Christina Karl (much credibility on the subject):
http://grantland.com/features/what-grantland-got-wrong/


Lastly, from Bill Simmons, creator/editor of Grantland, who candidly addresses the failures of journalism with this article:
http://grantland.com/features/the-dr-v-story-a-letter-from-the-editor/

Fear and More Fear--why govs want us to be afraid

(via Glenn Greenwald)

NYT opinion piece on the Culture of Fear (as cultivated by our own gov)--insightful, researched, worthwhile read:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fifty-states-of-fear/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&

Those Rotten Freeloaders! (not who you might think)

(via RuntoDaylight)


properly directed animus