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• 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]

Violent English pixie Lily Allen apparently called our president a “F****** C***,” which is cockney rhyming slang for “lucky grunt,” a common British term of affection. [Lily's Bush Outburst [MTV]

Liz Glover, intrepid videographer, happened to be in Chicago for Lollapalooza recently (helping her friends at Pancake Mountain). With camera in hand, she asked Lupe Fiasco, Gemini, and Mr. Laura Dern himself, Ban Harper, about the preferability of voting to dying, and their thoughts on choosing v. losing.

Update: Now we are posting the correct video. Happy Monday!

Last week, Liz Glover and Liz Gorman went to some crazy beatnik art/rock show thing called “The Show is the Rainbow,” where Glover took the above video and Gorman took the below pictures. It’s, uh, mostly safe for work.

The Show is the Rainbow Gallery

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Every week, our Anonymous Lobbyist answers your questions about how laws get made and why they probably shouldn’t. If you have a question about the dirty business of doing business in Washington, ask her.

This week: there’s nothing else to do so you might as well dance.

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There’s a fun new contest on Hillary Clinton’s website: You can help her campaign pick some boomer crap theme song for her campaign! The choices are just about what you’d expect — insipid Dixie Chicks pop, “inspiring” U2 shit and that stupid Jesus Jones song that gleefully predicted Islamic fundamentalist terror attacks against Western civilization — but you also have the opportunity to suggest an even better song: MORE »