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• How to Go from Flat to Funky in Three Easy Steps
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Solipsists and Guitar Riffs Friday Edition
• Me at Human Events: Murdoch Versus WikiLeaks
• The Delivery Presents – Blowing Up the Debt Ceiling…and Other Things

How to Go from Flat to Funky in Three Easy Steps Posted: 22 Jul 2011 09:03 AM PDT Step One: Open the door. Step Two: Get on the floor. Step Three: Everyb….wait. Do I really need to spell out the third step?     By the by, I used to have a pretty wicked crush on the short-haired blonde dancer in this video back in the way. Never did learn her name.

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Solipsists and Guitar Riffs Friday Edition Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:10 AM PDT As anyone who shows up for The Delivery’s pre-show warmup quickly learns, I love music and I’m a big fan of musicians who can write good songs and good lyrics. Those are more rare than you’d expect. But lyrics can be tricky for me. I appreciate, for instance, that Sting is a skilled lyricist and an excellent songwriter, but many of his tunes leave me cold because they seem shallow. That was the subject of a discussion today between John of VerumSerum and Ace about the difference between Sting’s lyrics in Synchronicity I and Neil Peart’s in Red Barchetta. I think Ace hits an important point that we’d all do well to keep in mind. If we won’t summon enough imagination to get outside our own heads, then we are little better than children and the rest of society ought to treat us as such. Ed Driscoll ties up both posts nicely with some thoughts about how the lack of imagination isn’t necessarily an artist thing, but a leftist thing. He notes that most country artists, who do not skew left, don’t make a habit of casually insulting their audiences because they’re still capable of remembering (or imagining, if you like) what it was like when they weren’t rich and coddled. And now, links! Doug Ross has three conditions under which he’d raise the debt ceiling. I think the Republican leadership should bring him in for a little sit-down so he can explain things to them. Have a brain pain? Have you lost that little jump in your step? Are your bunions giving you trouble? You, my friend, need Spenditol! Even though I’ve not paid a bit of attention to the story of the 16 year-old bride and her 51 year-old husband, I found this Stacy McCain interview with the girl’s mother pretty interesting. While Debbie Wasserman-Schultz nurses her bruised ego and throws a big-league poochie lip at Allen West, let’s take a look at some of the things she’s said over the past couple years. So…the media spun their reports against Republican governors who battled the labor unions but for the Democratic governor who did the same thing? Let’s all be very shocked! I say that throwing your very own birthday party for Barack Obama sounds like a ton of fun, and by fun I mean something a totalitarian despot expects of his subjects. I sincerely hope someone from the GOP is on this story. It’d make for a tasty little talking point. If the players ratify the collective bargaining agreement to which the owners have agreed, then the end of July is going to be very busy. The big day will be July 27, when the free agent bazaar opens and the hundreds of millions of dollars you pay for what has become a very substandard sports product (IMO) flows like the mighty Mississip’.

Me at Human Events: Murdoch Versus WikiLeaks Posted: 21 Jul 2011 11:55 AM PDT I haven’t written much about the growing News of the World scandal, mostly because it’s still a very new story and there is no way for anyone to know how it will play out based on how it’s played out thus far. I don’t doubt that people will go to jail; it’s obvious that quite a few laws have been broken. What’s much less clear is whether the left will successfully use the scandal to damage Rupert Murdoch’s American news outlets, the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. However, I did write a column for Human Events — my first for that legendary conservative publication — on what I see as the rank hypocrisy from the left and the real differences between the News of the World story and the WikiLeaks thefts. The secrets uncovered by the investigators hired by News of the World, though certainly embarrassing and personally sensitive, were fairly mundane. Perhaps the most shocking revelation is that the snoops listened in as concerned family members left messages on the answering machine of a missing 13-year-old girl and erased some of them so that they could get more. While we all recoil from the petty evil that would drive someone to do such a thing, the information they got didn't put lives at risk. The WikiLeaks documents, according to the New York Times, gave out identifying information about "dozens" of informants and others who were cooperating with our soldiers against the Taliban. Indeed, once the Taliban heard of the leaks, it pored over them in the hope of finding enough information to kill those named in them, or any members of their families they could find. As the Taliban spokesman said, "We know how to punish them." We do not know how many people are dead right now because Bill Keller and his newspaper broadcast the material stolen by Julian Assange's supplier, Bradley Manning, but we can reasonably estimate the number was more than zero. Ann Coulter hit the subject today in her column as well. You should probably read hers first, as it takes a different angle from mine, though we reach the same end-point.

The Delivery Presents – Blowing Up the Debt Ceiling…and Other Things Posted: 21 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Well, this has certainly been a busy week hasn’t it? Between some headachy illness that laid me low for a day and a half and a whole bunch of extra work hours for SMP Mike, we’re a bit fortunate that Episode 103 got made at all. I’m not griping, mind you. I love making the podcast and I know that SMP Mike gets a big kick out of it as well. We’re building something special and no mere headache or bonus working hours can keep us from our appointment with podcasting greatness! Okay, maybe that was a bit over the top, but it’s been that kind of week. I’m glad I got to wrestle with the debt ceiling debate in the first half as it gave me a welcome chance to blow off some steam and hit a few licks for the side of fiscal sanity. I wish I could have gone a few extra minutes on it. Perhaps, if Congress continues to muck around and not get us a real and honest plan, I’ll get another chance to launch into yet another righteous rant. If you have an iPad or like social media, the second half should be very useful to you. I’ve had one of those wonder machines for a bit over a month now and have a handful of great little apps that you might find useful and fun as well. At least one of them lets you blow up cars in a manner befitting Keith Carradine. How could that be bad? I also dropped a few good tidbits about the new Google+ platform, which I do recommend even though it’s still essentially in an open beta test. Take a listen and tell me what you think about any or all of it! Don’t forget to share the show with your friends. We’re still flying without an advertising budget here and every good recommendation you give helps the show a ton! The Delivery - Episode 103 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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