Author Archives: olneyce

Skid Marks – Possum Dixon (from the lovely and unfortunately forgotten Star Maps) So it looks like the Republicans have got the votes together to ensure a bipartisan-ish restriction on earmarks.  What ought we think about this? Well, earmarks are … Continue reading →

Nothing Can Kill The Grimace – Mixtapes Music!  I am here to write about music!  After a long day grading (mostly terrible) papers I really feel the need to let my hair down and focus on something completely different.  And … Continue reading →

I’ve gone back and forth a lot on my feeling about the repeal (or lack thereof) of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  I’ve been very sympathetic to the arguments that it makes some sense to go slow if it comes with … Continue reading →

I was having lunch today and the following took place: – Mother and child (roughly 4 years old) begin eating. They are enjoying the food, the nice day, etc.  All is well with the world. – The child gets bored … Continue reading →

“This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you.” –C. Montgomery Burns For those who hadn’t … Continue reading →

The Mission – Unexplainable Stories There’s a long-running debate about what is causing the coming Republican wave.  The right wants to sell it as a judgment on the Obama agenda, as a re-assertion of the fundamental center-right nature of the … Continue reading →

The Winner Takes It All – Abba Today the subject is a couple memes that are running around which irritate me.  Not because there’s NO truth in them, but because they serve as overly simplistic ways of approaching situations that … Continue reading →

No, I’m not dead.  And no, the blog isn’t dead either.  Just mostly dead. Anyways, to tide you over while I do other things and fail to write about music, here’s a video of a polar bear cub seeing itself … Continue reading →

I Feel Better (Live) – Frightened Rabbit (from the Liver! Lung! FR! album I still think of Dan Savage as the guy who writes the sex advice column in the back of The Stranger, but in the 15 years since … Continue reading →

Alaska – Camera Obscura (from the If Looks Could Kill EP) There’s a small part of me that finds the possibility of Lisa Murkowski running (and winning) a write-in campaign to be hilarious.  Booted out in the primary by the … Continue reading →