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This blog post of P Diddy discussing John McCain's veep choice is amazing. check it out.

For a moment, Anti-Americanism be damned.

Today, in her article "Credit Where It's Due", Janet Albrechtsen made me shiver a little bit with her analogy between other countries' anti-Americanism and the classic parent-teenager relationship. Why? A non-American, she isolated several trends in American philanthropy and aid work that go unrecognized by cavilling international critics, citing specifically the catastrophic situation now in Myanmar, where American relief is waiting on the sidelines while the Burmese military regime tries to figure out whether to let the US give its people much-needed help. Meanwhile, these critics are disregarding US aid efforts as "attempts to undermine the UN" and (re: the 2004 tsunami), "consolidate its hegemony." I could go on, but I suggest you read the article.

In one of Clinton's most recent brilliant political moves, she discounts economists in the gas tax debate saying that she doesn't trust those totally elitist economists, saying: "I’m not going to put my lot in with economists because I know if we did it right ... we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively." Is she insane, or just totally irresponsible in her politics?

Has the New York Times un-endorsed Hillary?

So I'm going to stop troubling you buried in my yard

Stephen Malkmus is crazy. When talking about indie/underground music today: "U2 wants to hang around with Arcade Fire. U2 didn't want to hang around with Pavement."

But no, he also wrote: "We just do what we do. I would quantify our sound as more underground than indie, in that it's not catering to a fashion, so much as indie happens to be a fashion now. But the underground lives on regardless. It always does. Because there are so many people making music, and there are enough people just making it to their own taste." (source)

I tend to agree with what he's saying in distinguishing underground music from indie, but what about musicians who are underground who receive sudden and extreme exposure through new media?

Why am I thinking about this? Because I've been watching Pennsylvania returns all night on MSNBC and I need to find some respite from the torture. At least, I have the lovely Matthews/Olberman tag team doing coverage (I didn't really like Olberman until I saw his special comment last month on Countdown).

i was nineteen (call me)

"you showed me my first good glass of red wine, andre," I wrote and erased.