On some other thread, we were talking about the biggest musical 180s, and I brought up Siamese Dream/Mellon Collie. Man Smashing Pumpkins were awesome.

I'd say it's a half-step below TS3. But still very good.

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Just make an entry titled "Every Tim Curry Movie Ever Made"

It's Spanish for "a whale's vagina."

With a few minor tweaks, I will definitely watch The Fairy Handjobmother

I was thinking of June Carter, who was raised in the Appalachian country in western Virginia.

Steve Martin the grammy-winning bluegrass artist
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LeftEnglandShake: Johnny Cash was raised in the Appalachians, so I dunno about that.

I'm not much for irony, but that song is so amazingly awful that it has become incredible to me.

You kind of need to, O'Neal. Like, tonight.

Obama campaigned with ideas of universal health care, and Obama was so foreign at that point to Washington politics that most of what he proposed on the election trail came from a sincere place. So I think the initial design was for universal coverage, something Rahm Assholemanuel quickly discouraged.

I'll be honest: It's a gift subscription. But I keep requesting it, so I keep getting it.

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Taylor Swift also can't sing. She performed at some award show (The Grammys?) with Stevie Nicks, and Nicks was very obviously irritated by how bad Swift's singing voice is.

The other point to make is that Thompson's style is fundamentally different from Taibbi's. Thompson wrote fiction that enhanced his points; Taibbi deals in facts. He's far more of a quote-unquote traditional reporter than Thompson was.

Well, the nonstop Taylor Swift coverage don't hurt either!

One of Taibbi's best articles was a recent investigation into what killed Obama's commendable attempt at universal, single-payer health care. Turns out, the final nail in the coffin was none other than liberal hero Barney Frank.

Dude, it's ALL about the Moscow Times.

Taibbi is the reason I subscribe to Rolling Stone. Because I like to be depressed and entertained at the same time.

The ultimate point is that the GOP shouldn't have needed to bend, about anything. Obama took power with a nearly filibuster-proof majority and a ton of high-tempered promises, and failed to get anything accomplished. It says less about Obama than it does his party, which at this point is an irrelevant sack of…