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- Thursday 1st October 2009
Democratic Representative Alan Grayson of Florida drops science about the Republican plan to kiss the insurance industry’s ass.
I salute this cat.
I wish I could vote for him.
- chris burke: LOL. Ah Colony Records…
- Reginald Swilley: Great Pictures… Must have been a great trip.
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- Cheerful Charlie: Perusing your blog, and came upon this post giving Pogo props. I was not lucky enough to have a...
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- Pogo; an appreciation
- Are corporations people? Lessig responds.
- A political post that doesn't count as ranting and raving because it ends on a sane note
- More political fuming coming down the pike, but first, these words...
- Watch as Republican Rep. Dan Lungren sells his fat ass (video) to the highest bidders
- ►January (9)
- Lawrence Lessig explains the corrosive effects of private campaign financing to a conservative think tank, in terms even they can understand
- The People Yes (Howard Zinn R.I.P.)
- This pretty much sums it up
- That gurgle you hear is democracy's death rattle. (Updated)
- While looking at something else on YouTube
- Whenever something really bad happens in the world...
- Death of the Sun; E.B. White on vanishing newspapers
- Looking for cheap, fast internet service? Leave the country.
- Steinski.com v2.0? Is it possible?
- ►2009 (86)
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- How to incite some republican schmuck to shoot the president
- Help protect the real victims - insurance company executives
- Country & Western beatboxing
- The question is not: Are all pigs Republicans? The question is: Are all Republicans pigs?
- Joke Of The Day
- A Death In The Family
- My friend The Breakbeatles
- Washington Post article on foreign health care plans, delineated by Trudy Lieberman (and reprinted here in toto from Columbia Journalism Review without permission)
- ►August (9)
- The press; a few loose ends
- The health care thing; a few loose ends
- The torture thing; a few loose ends
- What if the RIAA had existed in 1915?
- The Duke On A Foggy Morning
- The guy who runs Whole Foods turns out to be rotten.
- Well, it was fun while it lasted...
- \"Some lawyer for you on line 3, says it\'s important...\"
- No comment
- ►July (12)
- Sony v. Tenenbaum, the latest RIAA outrage.
- In case you haven\'t seen it
- The healthcare industry is forging people\'s signatures on fake letters and sending them to local newspapers (UPDATED)
- Who owns Max Baucus?
- Jon Stewart on the \"controversy\" about Obama\'s citizenship
- Makes sense to me
- Ours is The Best Government Money Can Buy
- What\'s the difference between a journalist and a stenographer?
- Expanded liner notes for the \"Beat Rock\" comp I did for Vibrations Magazine (at last!)
- The Day ASCAP threatened to sue the Girl Scouts for singing around the campfire; Barbie\'s hooker origins; and other true tales of copyright.
- DJ Food reappears with a bang
- Excellent article on press coverage (or the lack of it) of the health care debate in Columbia Journalism Review
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- A short interview with Republican spin doctor #1
- Indoctrinating children about \"idea theft\"
- Republicans building strong team of candidates for 2010 elections
- A meditation on multitrack recording
- Proof that Bush had the mental capacity of a challenged 11 year-old
- Jon Stewart examines the many faces of Obama
- A lot of famous actors in one video
- The latest (somewhat smaller) online version of the Columbia Journalism Review
- Torture the american way; the more we know, the worse it gets
- Representative democracy in action
- Musical Piracy
- Four cool clips
- Library porn, continued
- Thank you for your patience
- Lest we forget
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- A new BBC radio documentary on record collectors (UPDATED)
- A quick review of some major areas in which Obama needs to get his ass kicked
- Recorded history
- The Citizen is Gone
- Aharr: a short film about voiceovers
- Gin: Broderick vs. Judy
- FLAC? AAC? Please advise...
- Guantanamo sadists ramping up torture as closing approaches (updated, unfortunately)
- World\'s Best Radio Station Wants Money For Pizza and Toilet Paper... (With urgent plea from Station Manager Ken)
- Stand By Me
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- The time is 1995...
- It\'s time to get down with Moss Phlox
- Evidence of my gig in Philly
- It\'s the move
- Washing the Bush slime off our society
- Read it and... think
- A pleasant reminder that we\'re waking up from 8 long years of Republican nightmare
- In the Minnesota Senate race, there\'s a reason the count is so close
- Anyone a fan of 30 rock?
- Randomness
- Bush administration prepares to screw us one last time
- Pfizer suspends research on drug that stops the munchies
- Rust never sleeps, and neither do lobbyists
- YES!
- Voting chaos guide
- Fight Fiercely, Harvard! Fight! Fight! Fight!
- A short explanatory article for our foreign readers
- Awesome artwork I swiped from Wired
- A footnote to the McCain/Palin slimeball express
- A truly great man passes
- The Republican campaign to steal the election, Part 5,728.4 (Now with documented BS)
- The Choice Is Yours (updated)
- ►October (15)
- New report confirms US tortured detainees; cites irrefutable medical evidence
- Ron Howard does something extraordinary
- Copyright and politics don\'t mix
- Agence France-Presse asks the question no US news organization seems to be asking
- Approaching Ireland. Look out below.
- Takin\' no stuff in Philly
- First chapter from Lawrence Lessig\'s new book
- I.F. Stone has his own website
- Celebrate the New Depression at Steinski gig in Philadelphia Monday, Oct. 13
- Palin Speech Generator
- Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart
- The Republicans kick it up several notches (now with updated hatred and stupidity, also the US Supreme Court)
- A story about an ad buy
- Some bailout protests you didn\'t see on the news
- Proof you don\'t have to be smart to be dishonest
- ►September (22)
- Oy
- Representative Kaptur kicks some Congressional butt
- The man who called the economic collapse correctly at every turn predicts...
- National Review columnist calls on palin to withdraw; Lessig on Palin vs. all other veeps
- A coupla quick ones...
- Later for the economy; Jammie Thomas won a retrial
- Today\'s Republican News Updates
- Rick Davis\'s $2m Value as a lobbyist: \"He didn\'t really do anything.\"
- If, as the Republicans say, \"it\'s all about the narrative, it\'s not about facts\"...
- The financial crisis: reporting on the reporting (or the lack of it)
- This is your nation on white privilege
- Free Campaign BS Detector
- Going off the top, then over it (translated)
- Sarah Palin uses ebay to auction naming rights to daughter\'s illegitimate child
- A poster to go with your \"mission statement\"
- At least one place your vote will be counted
- The RNC & The DNC in 60 seconds
- And God Spoke To Moses (with a brooklyn accent)
- The Stop Sign movie
- Defending Sarah Palin
- Famous voices; R.I.P.
- \"It\'s important that I do what I know to be the right thing\"
- ►August (18)
- The Onion calls the election
- Found on Soulseek
- A video lesson from Wuggy
- \"You see this car, pal? You see this car? This car cost more than your watch...\" (Dodge Daytona edition)
- Stein interviewed, says \"you know\" a lot, you know? (now with added Rolling Stone review) (plus new Pitchfork interview)
- Mutant video for Freberg\'s \"Day-o\"
- Man here thinks the economic crisis is going to get a lot worse. And the bad news is...
- It Don\'t Gitmo Better Than This
- Roots, Rhythm, and end credits.
- \"I care a lot more about the process than I care about the victory.\"
- This may be a boy thing, I\'m not sure
- Who you gonna believe? Me, or your own eyes?
- What the ancient greeks knew about sampling
- On not talking to the police. About anything. ever. under any circumstances.
- Star chamber trials, now with U.S. branding
- The return of a useful website
- The DNA test shows absolutely that... wait a minute, what\'s this?
- You can\'t make this stuff up
- ►July (23)
- Lessig keynote address at netroots nation last week in austin, TX.
- \"You see this turntable, pal? You see this turntable? This turntable cost more than your car...\"
- News website worth checking on a daily basis
- Exceptionally funny parody site
- Who answers those spam e-mails about phony college degrees?
- What to do with an RC car and a lot of empty beer bottles
- An ethical conundrum (now with comments, sort-of)
- How to become an outside agitator
- Behind the curve, as usual
- The G. W. Bush Memorial Library: a shelf of comics, a shelf of tracts, and film clips of lobbyists selling Administration face time to build the joint.
- Ben Stokes rocks the drummers
- United States motto changing from \"E Pluribus Unum\" to \"I Can\'t Recall.\"
- A people\'s History Of The American Empire (video)
- Paul Craig Roberts is still worried
- A tough job: PR firm representing KBR and Blackwater attempts to counteract avalanche of bad press
- With news like this, who needs comic books?
- Excellent non-partisan BS detector
- Last year, Paul Craig Roberts was quite worried
- Happy July 4th
- In Google vs. Viacom, the big loser is...
- A documentary worth watching (free)
- Venom, Ire, ribs, etc.
- Jeff Kisseloff\'s Oral History of the 60\'s
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- Who is Laura Berg and why is she getting an award?
- The difference between lobbying elected representatives and bribing them.
- At Nuremburg, the Nazi High Command were hung for the same things Rice & Cheney approved and directed.
- Who knew?
- Lesson 3 Live At Roseland, 11/20/02
- Coming soon
- Money changes everything
- Democratic President or Republican President, Burson-Marsteller will be with us always
- \"So Steve, how was SxSW?\"
- Stein visits Zurich, investigates gnomes
- Lawrence Lessig and his very good idea
- ►March (15)
- My friend Alex, his friend Pat, and a story about Jose Canseco
- Charlie Rose gets his ass handed to him by two rather pissed off Iraqi gentlemen
- Something to keep in mind while the media is handicapping the election horse race
- Larger piece of the Jeremiah Wright video from 9/11
- I\'ve been to a marvelous party
- Maybe ending the draft wasn\'t such a hot idea after all...
- Credit long overdue
- My kind of humor
- George Carlin on Voting
- New Yes Men web site sending up BP
- The Great Black Way by R.J. Smith
- Cheap downloads: Double Dee & Steinski Live (MP3), new Steinski Rough Mix radio shows 2007 (MP3) up (Show 17 (odds & ends), Show 75 (94/95 season)
- If I\'m still alive after this f#@$&^% flu, I\'ll be at SxSW
- For once, I agree with Rush
- And no chewing gum on the bandstand, either
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- \"So, what did you guys play?\"
- Story about corrupt US officials selling nuke secrets to terrorists gets big play in the UK, zip zilch nada in the US press
- Republican ex-con discusses voter suppression on Jon Stewart
- Reagan Republican Congressman charged as terrorist
- Borowitz on Bloomberg, Monica on Oprah
- Hot library smut
- Let's laugh while we still can
- This won't last.
- Chadsey Collins runs it down re: DC go-go
- Double Dee & Steinski live in NYC
- ►2007 (219)
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- Just two guys workin\' out...
- Accumulation Creep, Pt. 4
- FCC turning up the pressure to enlarge corporate media by Xmas (UPDATE) (and yet a further UPDATE)
- My reluctant advocacy of a corporate hustle
- Stein on WFMU Wed. night; Live & Blabbing
- Tons and tons of 16 Tons (and tons of updates)
- Line Up
- Frederick Wiseman documentaries available on DVD for the first time
- ►November (14)
- The death of OiNK (R.I.P.)
- The formerly nonexistent RSS feed for this site
- Got 5 On It?
- Accumulation Creep, Pt. 2
- good copy bad copy
- Dropping science on Fat Joe
- Studs Terkel at 95
- Accumulation Creep Pt. 1
- Lindy hopping: old, and revived
- The MPAA and the RIAA get what they pay for
- The King Of Digging
- What would happen if torture was, um, torture?
- Only slightly more subtle than Fox News (updated with a sense of embarassment)
- Video analysis by my paranoid self (file under propaganda)
- ►October (16)
- A quick post while packing and running around like mad (updated)
- Think you're bad?
- Comcast blocks Internet traffic it doesn't like...
- A new film from the makers of "Scratch"
- Heroin brands
- A few fact$ that probably will have no effect what$oever on the legal $ituation of the telecom$ caught $pying illegally for Bu$h on their cu$tomer$ (UPDATE)
- Man here says the Bush administration was spying on phone calls 6 months before September 11
- The general malaise in the media over the latest torture revelations
- How to learn good curse words in Mandarin
- You haven't read all about it because you haven't been told all about it
- Fox News - The Ultimate Story
- Genuinely revolutionary idea from... the guy who runs Yahoo! Music!?
- A big bunch of blogs about the media
- Interrogation - the pitch memo
- Rush Limbaugh to testify for the defense
- Economics, rationalizations, and long underwear
- ►September (11)
- Ben Stein's money may be good, but his word is worthless (UPDATED)
- The Suzuki Method, applied
- Republican push to steal 2008 elections moves to Supreme Court
- Victorious RIAA defendant gets attorneys' fees, turns to class-action plans
- Kenny Muhammad The Human Orchestra
- "Now They Tell Us", a book by Michael Massing
- A documentary that will never air on US TV
- Can we finally restore Habeas Corpus?
- What you find on YouTube when you're looking for something else entirely (UPDATED)
- Army of Dude
- Kustom Kar Weekend (photos)
- ►August (16)
- How fair use actually works (real world example)
- An interview with the me that used to be
- How do you spell Goebbels? A-I-L-E-S
- Nobody believes me
- The Optimism Of Uncertainty
- Henry Rollins tours for the USO. Interview with Mother Jones
- Start your own political fundraising organization; keep the money. Here's how.
- Great news for documentary fans
- 9/11: Lest We Forget
- The Three Little Bops
- English lessons and exercise
- Pearl Jam Webcast Censored by AT&T Over Political Content (UPDATED)
- George Carlin On The American Dream
- Killing time at Heathrow
- I been away
- No Cooler For The Scooter
- ►July (11)
- Well, I apologize, but I think this guy's a genius
- Jerry Clower on biscuits
- "I never was so happy in my life"
- Elderly Man River by Stan Freberg (and Daws Butler)
- Net Neutrality loses (updated)
- If you can't see it, it doesn't exist (continued)
- Rich Republicans find a new charity: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Updated playlists at WFMU.org
- A deft summation of the Bush/Libby scandal
- Why webcams were invented (continued)
- Dummies Guide to Buying Legislators and Public Opinion
- ►June (15)
- Disabled single mom sues the RIAA
- Always For Pleasure and then some
- What does a real hero look like?
- June 26th: A moment of silence for Internet radio
- Republicans shocked - shocked! - to find that recipients of religious \"grants\" are thieves (updated)
- The Republicans hate "big government" for a very good reason...
- End Of Ze World Flash Movie
- I'm on vacation for a week Pt. 4: Reynaldo Rey
- I'm on vacation for a week Pt. 3: Fred Allen (and Tallulah Bankhead)
- I'm on vacation for a week Pt. 2: Jerry Clower
- I'm on vacation for a week Pt. 1: Selma Diamond
- Why the right wing keeps lying; Lou Dobbs & \"Leprosy\"
- Torture For Dummies
- William Shatner: the high-speed remix
- And speaking of effective presentation techniques
- ►May (33)
- Two hundred albums by a soul artist nobody's ever heard - until now
- Telecom companies working harder to serve you better (by keeping internet access limited, slow, and expensive)
- Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" as a a motion-control video
- Cindy Sheehan withdraws for all the right reasons
- I'll have a double. Straight up, please
- In the years P.D. (Pre-Dangermouse)
- Cats listening to music
- Gonzales proposes thoughtcrime legislation
- Stein reappears on the airwaves, courtesy of WFMU
- On second thought, send me a text message; I've got another one of those headaches
- Chuck Jones, with sound effects
- Break recipe
- The Wall, y'all
- The President of the U.S. wrote a book - about George W. Bush
- Fair use, in a Disney stylee
- The single most important book on creativity and copyright
- Could you make it a little bit more like the demo tape?
- Which is harder? Buying a gun, or buying a used CD?
- It's not the massage, stupid
- I'll bet you thought there was nothing worse than a marketing call on a Sunday morning
- Back by popular demand
- Where are the new filmmakers coming from?
- Molly Ivins (RIP) thought Bill Moyers should run for president
- The original Sunshine Boys
- My continuing fascination with PowerPoint presentations
- Don't matter whutcha done, long as you got saved
- Well, at least Bush supporters made a few bucks, eh? (updated)
- Ralphie's Bop City Pt. 7: Letting go
- Archaeology in the UK
- Why all this fuss about 8 firings at the Department Of Justice? Look at all the attorneys who didn't get fired.
- Good thing Jesus is coming soon
- When the Republican coup was still working well
- Revisiting a classic
- ►April (37)
- Using crooks to investigate crooks, Chapter 2
- Whatever happened to Ashleigh Banfield?
- One reason you don't see more protests is because you don't see all the protests that happen
- A music video even I like
- There's nothing new under the sun - or in the voting booth
- Why webcams were invented.
- What's the difference between the Republican Party and the Mafia?
- Moyers turns over the flat rock (updated)
- Democrats prove to be almost as good as Republicans...
- Between The Acts At The Opera
- Hallucinatory video mashup
- Deconstructing a "live news" broadcast
- I have no idea if this is actually true, but it's an appealing hypothesis
- Just in case you thought Bush and Gonzales had stopped at firing capable attorneys and replacing them with political hacks
- Let us celebrate
- It's Ruth Draper. Who?
- Upcoming Moyers special
- Before and after
- People talking
- Lessig video on "harmful to minors" speech
- Outrage over the Virginia slaughter (updated)...
- The dog ate my documents
- An exceptional video
- Apparently, "Just say no" just doesn't work.
- Not that I like the Democrats any better than the Republicans, but...
- The Mighty Boosh
- Lessig@Google
- As we peer over the edge of the Fair Use precipice...
- Ralphie's Bop City Pt. 6
- Probably more attention than I deserve
- The difference between being a Republican president and being a Republican presidential candidate
- The Original Minister Of Silly Walks
- The Republican Coup of 2000 - in living color
- In case you were wondering...
- An Admirable Editorial From The NY Times
- Presidential Candidates Bought And Sold Like Pigs
- The Republican Base Proves That Evolution Is "Nothing But A Fairy Tale"
- ►March (28)
- Dirty Music Of My Childhood
- 15 British Soldiers Captured By Iran
- Ralphie's Bop City Pt. 5
- Republicans in Congress complain that Democrats are acting like...
- Adjusting your BS detectors
- When Mayor Bloomberg balances free speech against his master's voice, who wins?
- Portugal: sun, fun & Red Bull
- Electro; live, and in full effect
- Why using criminals to investigate themselves is a bad idea
- All the fake news ain't on Jon Stewart
- When ODB met Lucy
- And to sum up:
- Ralphie\'s Bop City, Pt. 4
- Ornette Coleman: He walks the walk, and... he talks the talk.
- "Introducing The Book"
- I'll Fly Away
- You can't judge a book...
- Jackie Pilliciotti RIP
- In case any Iraqis would like to see what actual democracy looks like...
- Glenn Greenwald breaks it down beautifully
- The dirt on Dopey Benny
- ireallylovemusic interview (UK)
- Phone interview at Turntable Treats
- As Steven Colbert pointed out: "Your job is to write down what the administration says, print it, and go home and spend time with your family"
- Ralphie\'s Bop City Pt. 3
- NWA vs. PTA
- The best radio station in the world
- The third world, 10 miles from Manhattan
- ►February (30)
- Ralphie's Bop City, Pt. 2
- Frank Zappa: Young, and on Television
- An exceptional blog
- From the same unimpeachable sources that brought us the war in Iraq
- Alec Baldwin, David Mamet, and me
- You be the judge
- High-tech graffiti in the Netherlands
- Joel Dorn, voice-over talent
- Ralphie\'s Bop City, Pt. 1
- The Flying Saucer Records
- Insightful film flies under the radar
- The Republican thugs would have you believe that the situation in Iraq is very complicated and highly nuanced.
- Randy Newman's new single
- Live in Belfast
- The film clip that kept me sane during the darkest days of the Republican regime. Re-posted in new, improved high-rez format
- Friendsofsound video interview
- This is news to me
- Grahame Bent reviews The Sugarhill Mix
- Red Bull Music Academy interview
- Patrick Sisson article
- Dave Marsh on Nothing To Fear
- No Rights Given Or Implied
- A love song to bastard pop
- Invisible Jukebox from The Wire
- Steinski Interview
- Mark Sullivan's review of Nothing To Fear
- Double Dee & Steinski's very own Wikipedia entry
- Down By Law: Great Dance Records You Can't Buy
- My Mom Wrote A Book!
- The Best Government Money Can Buy
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