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WHOREMONGER BLUES: Take a musical journey through Eliot Spitzer’s life-ruining hooker lovin,’ with this hand-picked playlist of hits. [Brightest Young Things]

Have you ever been to a sporting game, or a fraternity party, or maybe a Mike Huckabee rally? At all three, you can find drunk college students from Arkansas, and you can also hear rock and roll band Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” played on repeat. Unfortunately for President Huckabee, Boston wants to exclude him from this elite club of fair use and is asking him to stop playing the song. Says songwriter Tom Scholz, “I think I’ve been ripped off, dude!” MORE »

Even though she lost every primary, caucus, and bake-off in the continental United States (and the Virgin Islands!) this weekend, Hillary Clinton has this whole Presidential nomination thing in the bag. Her secret weapon: brave political leader and sometime animated cat dancer Paula Abdul, who effectively gives Clinton the nod in the LA Times. MORE »

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For sure. It’s a major happening on the Hill, man. You know? It just feels like the 1970s with all this ‘No Nukes!’ stuff. MORE »

• Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes Talking Heads homage. (’Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is not my beautiful Right.” They may ask themselves: “My God, what have we done?”‘)

• The Note: Eight paragraphs of inexplicable and terrible Springsteen gags. (”Former senator Fred Thompson knows no brilliant disguise will compensate for a bad debate tomorrow”)

This is the best interview with Henry Rollins ever published. [BYT]

“11:15 a.m. And time has stopped.” [Idolator]

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Maybe the oddest thing about this video of Ted Kennedy singing “We Are the World” with Marsha Blackburn, the dude from Big & Rich, and Quincy Jones is how he pulls the mic closer to himself so that we can all hear his patrician mumbling along with a song he doesn’t know particularly well. [WP]