+1 for the underappreciated Black Flag track

TAD

For now.

I saw them touring for Money; I've probably seen them about 10 times since, but they never quite topped that one. (The Nihil tour with Pig did come close.)

I saw that Lollapalooza in Houston–worst show of my life (no shade or water in a 100+ day). Love F242 but they look ridiculous playing in sunlight.

I saw that tour too, in Philly. I also caught Chemlab a few times when they were based around DC. It's something of a cliche to say this about bands, but, they were always better live than on record.

Thank god. Now they can finally work on finding out who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong.

MC 900 Ft Jesus, 'The City Sleeps [Radio Edit]'
Bob Mould, 'Kid With a Crooked Face'
:wumpscut:, 'Bunker Gate Seven'
Husker Du, 'Sunshine Superman'
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark, 'Radio Prague'
Alien Sex Fiend, 'Now I'm Feeling Zombified (Live)'
Slowdive, '40 Days'
Wolfsheim, 'Upstairs'
In The Nursery, 'Elegy'
Marsheaux,…

Brown certainly could have been a more authoritative voice on economic issues, but ultimately I'm not certain how far his appeal goes beyond the activist base (and he probably wouldn't have satisfied the activist base who hated Hillary anyway.)

It's actually not a bad strategy, one used elsewhere effectively on the left: try to appropriate an offensive name.

Yeah, while I know in theory that VP picks don't help presidential campaigns, with the benefit of hindsight I wonder how choosing Brown (or, honestly, Warren) might have effected the race. At the time, when Hillary was considered a lock, I didn't like it because of losing the Senate seat. Now that we know how the…

'it was pretty obviously a pander with no belief behind it'

It would have made no difference. VP candidates don't swing elections, and disaffected Bernie supporters would not have voted for Hillary any more than they did anyway. And that's to say nothing of the oppo the RNC had on Sanders, which might have played out badly during the campaign.

'But it would have taken courage to buck the traditional campaign strategy that neither side had.'

'He didn't win because people are dumb, exactly. He won because we live in an age without nuance.'

Yeah if some of the exit poll analyses I've been seeing are any indication, Democrats can't count on Hispanics being a solid Democratic constituency like African-Americans are. In which case it's time to think less about blue Texas and more about Blue Georgia.

These days Vice might be the closest to 'Watergate level journalists', for better or worse.

Trump didn't 'realize' anything. He ran his campaign like a reality show and won because Americans are dumb.

I'll make the Toby Ziegler bet that Trump doesn't finish this term, much less run in 2020.

On the other hand Kaine is the sort of person–a conventional, moderate male white Democrat–you'd pick if you were worried about PA, MI, WI, MN etc. He was a good choice, considering.