Spitball Army

So, I cautiously opened James Taylor’s Covers CD when my review copy arrived in the mail, already acknowledging my disappointment at the absence of original songs. My opinion of the album only worsened when I read the song list. Track number one: “It’s Growing.” No, I thought to myself, it can’t be.

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But Maddow isn’t just another left-wing pundit. In many ways, she’s the perfect representative of the new media elite — a hyper-professional, Blue-State meritocrat straight out of central casting. “Everything about her radiates competence and a deft, bright careerism,” wrote Rebecca Traister in the Nation.

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There was so much vinyl – multiple copies of many titles, and what seemed like endless rows of classical music – that I was overwhelmed. The two guys working the store seemed overwhelmed, too, wedged in behind a small sales counter that was piled high with boxes of new vinyl arrivals.

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If one is inclined to take poll results as fact…even after figuring that 100% of the undecided voters go for Obama, and that the 5% margin of error leans totally in his favor, Alabama would still not have a clear winner.

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Rachel Maddow, she of the new self-titled Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, breaks the current economic mess down for those of us who respond to simple ideas. And concepts related to food.

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You can’t make decisions based on polls or whether those decisions will keep you in the White House. You can’t kowtow to your advisers, consultants, public relations people or the media. You have to do the right thing, opinion and politics be damned.

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Popping up seemingly overnight, as if from earth’s oven, was this blossom of mushrooms in my backyard, looking invitingly like a generous cluster of Nilla Wafers.

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Eventually, in that retail business mileau, I had to tell the community, “Thanks, but no thanks,” for that financial black hole to nowhere. If I really wanted a financial black hole, I’d dig it myself.

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The Monday after Labor Day, I went for a swim and was greeted upon submersion with a mouthful of briny water.

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According to the documents, attorneys for the Big 4 music companies argue that if the government is willing to take steps to protect Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and AIG, who are only suffering because of their own risky investments and bad decision making, then it should do the same for other poorly run businesses.

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