Is it a successful cover when both the original *and* the cover make you want to jab a pen into your eardrum?
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It’s a shame, as both of the artists above had/have amazing voices. Utterly and completely wasted on this. Unfortunately, one of them made a career out of it.
Credit to P., for reminding me of this.
Once again, the active right fights more with its own imagination than anything else:
I’m sort of fascinated by the latest ACORN conspiracy theory, that ACORN activists are crashing right wing “tea parties” in order to sabotage them. I’m fascinated, because like Steve Benen, I don’t know anyone who actually cares about these things. Obama’s approval rating is in the 60s. The country is growing more optimistic about his presidency. I could see being concerned about the tea parties if they legitimately comprised some sort of mass movement centered around widespread public discontent with the president, but it just seems to be a bunch of sour grapes from hardcore conservatives who would hate Obama no matter what. The far right also seems to have a hard time mobilizing without an evil enemy, someone to hate.
Check out the rest, as Ezra Klein walks it back to – yes – a single post on the internet.   It’s just a part of a real blossoming of the wingers imaginations, lately. Community service is slavery! They’re going to put us in camps! There’s a New World Order coming! Or maybe it’s not so much imagination, as following a script. Because I’ve seen this story before, in the early 90s- service is slavery, they’re going to round us up, the New World Order is upon us! Same shit, different administrations.
The DC City Council voted today to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states that have adopted equality laws. It’s a solid step towards DC’s bringing same-sex marriage within its own laws. There will, no doubt, be the challenge of overcoming Congress (which can overturn any DC law, no matter how petty). It’ll be an interesting illustration of 1) the Democratic Party’s commitment to equality and 2) the hollowness of the Republican Party’s supposed commitment to states’ rights.
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Vermont’s legislature overrides its governor’s veto of a bill establishing equal marriage rights.
Slowly and surely.
On a bit of a personal note, I spent the afternoon getting ready for celebrating tomorrow’s high holy day. If you’re interested in how to do it properly, click on “more”.
Rob Beschizza on why Britons care about Google Street View, but not the jillion CCTV cameras in the country:
The thing that amazes me about my homeland isn’t its willingness to live under state surveillance, but the way we freak out whenever anyone else uses cameras in public. “I was determined to make a stand,” said one local, who helped block a Google Street View car from heading into a Buckinghamshire village.
My dad, who lives just an hour away from Broughton, suggests that the key to understanding this apparent paradox is in the amused contempt that many Britons have for politics. It’s not that they’re sheep: they just think that no matter what powers are given to the police, freedom is guaranteed by the fundamental incompetence of British police. We trust the authorities because the authorities are too stupid and useless to harm us.
There’s a certain truth to that, and not just in Britain. But surveillance tech is improving, and the delta between its effectiveness and the incompetence of its operators is narrowing.
Title stolen from this story.  Christ, people can be appalling. Especially when they’ve got invisible friends backing them up.
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