JM Bell | September 26, 2007
Sorry folks, I caught some kind of flu and I’m phoning it in today. HERE’s the Wikipedia entry. I remember listening to this band a lot in the 9th grade because of a girl named Rebbecca. She had curly red hair, bad attitude, and wore pants with skulls and crossbones. Ah, I miss punk rock [...]
JM Bell | September 26, 2007
Here’s my list from last night’s Cross Point on the Nightside Project the aidio file of the segment is at the bottom. 1. Contract On America – Newt Gingrich’s 1994 bull-crap blather fest on how Republicans would change America. Term limits, decreased spending and tough ethical reform were the keystones to this failure of an [...]
JM Bell | September 25, 2007
I couldn’t let this little gem pass. From Courier Mail in Queensland: By Matt Spetalnick in New York September 26, 2007 08:17am HOW do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as US President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue? When Mr Bush addressed the UN General Assembly today, the [...]
JM Bell | September 25, 2007
Despite the GOP’s best efforts, the SCHIP bill passed today. And, when I say GOP, you know I’m talking about Chris Cannon and Rob Bishop. Like you didn’t see this coming. SCHIP VOTE Aye – Matheson Nay – Cannon and Bishop. I figure that Bishop just doesn’t like poor kids and Cannon doesn’t think they [...]
JM Bell | September 25, 2007
Echo & the Bunnymen are one of my all time favorite 80′s bands. Every time I saw them live, they were tight. Tight and talented. These days, too many artists are nothing more than studio prima donnas that lip-sync nearly everything when they’re forced to perform live. Echo & the Bunnymen are better live than [...]
JM Bell | September 25, 2007
I may not understand polygamy, and I certainly wonder at the sanity of those who practice it, but, in all honesty, I have no real problem with the theory of it, except for the treatment of the kids. If everyone involved were over 18: I wish you every happiness. If the men involved don’t rape, [...]
JM Bell | September 24, 2007
Tom Waits is one of the Giants in the foundations of my musical tutelage. His first album was released the same year I was born, and the stuff he did in the 70′s is still far more avant garde than anything on the radio today. From Wikipedia: Lyrically, Waits’ songs are known for atmospheric portrayals [...]
JM Bell | September 24, 2007
Full Statement from UAW, via a news outlet that’s paying attention, the Detroit Free Press: The United Auto Workers announced today that due to the failure of General Motors to address job security and other mandatory issues of bargaining, the union has set a firm strike deadline for 11 am on Monday, September 24th. “We’re [...]
JM Bell | September 24, 2007
“You only get one chance to grow up healthy, and kids shouldn’t go without health care just because their parents can’t afford coverage,” said Ruby Simon, a 13-year-old who spoke at the multi-generational AFL-CIO children’s health event at the U.S. Capitol. (Click here to watch the video.) And that’s exactly what the expansion of the [...]
JM Bell | September 24, 2007
From my friends over at SciFi Tech: This week The New York Times killed its paid content platform, Times Select. For the past two years, news and editorials on the site had been free, but all of the material by columnists, plus several special features were behind a “pay wall,” which cost $7.95 a month [...]
