March 31, 75 degrees. The trees are in full bloom here. I’d rather be outside.
I give you a lyric, you give me the artist and the song name.
*Update:* I am going to have to start throwing more difficult ones your way…
-#1,- #2, #6, and #7 are left.
* *New:* For a very Canadian set, see [...]

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This is just funny. GOP Congressional candidate Kaloogian posted a street photo of a “peaceful Baghdad” on his web site supposedly taken during a recent visit, but it turns out that peaceful scene was “actually in Istanbul”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008034.php.
When called out, he said it was an staffer error, and replaced it with another “peaceful” scene, this [...]

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“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com sends along an article about the “War on Christians and the Values Voters in 2006″:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032801632.html conference. There it is, the “values voters” again. Everyone is a values voter, they just don’t agree on the same values. There most certainly is not a war against values voters; it’s just a way of making their [...]

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My commentary on Ben Domenech, the disgraced right-wing-lunatic, is “at the Anvil & Sprocket”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/?q=node/209. Don’t look at me like that, he was accused of ripping off _movie reviews_.
PS: On one had it’s hard to blame him. Like the Presidency, writing full length movie reviews is hard work.

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They say it can’t happen, people’s minds don’t change on this issue, but the last few months have definitely changed my position on abortion. I used to take a soft pro-choice stand: it’s a serious issue, people have legitimate concerns. Maybe we do need a waiting period. Maybe we do need a time after which [...]

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