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The Greatest Live Rock and Roll Albums Ever

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bmaz
Rolling Stone has a readers poll on the greatest live rock and roll albums of all time. The article is here. The list is as follows: 1) The Who "Live At Leeds" 2) Allman Brothers "Live at the Filmore East" 3) Peter Frampton "Frampton…
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While You Were Munching

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Rayne
You’ve given thanks for today’s grub, and now you’re dopey from the soporific effects of holiday gluttony. You’ve scraped the plates into the garbage disposal and kvetched about fitting all the leftovers in the fridge, or moaned…
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Thanks to Michigan's Farmers for the Bounty

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emptywheel
Every year on this day, I thank the great Michigan producers—and for some years, I’ve been cooking Thanksgiving using only Michigan producers, with just a few ingredient exceptions--who bring us our meal. Our food was brought to use by…
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Turkey Day Football Trash Talk

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bmaz
Here it is already, Thanksgiving. This will likely be my only shot to tell you folks thank you, and so I do. Each and every one of you who have the passion, and take the time out of your lives to spend some of it here at Emptywheel. Thank…
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A New Home for the Holiday

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Rayne
Marcy is probably up to her eyeballs in boxes both empty and full right now. I picture McCaffrey the MilleniaLab wandering lost if excited among them, wearing a loose doggy grin as his nails tick-tack across the new floor. Mr. Emptywheel may…
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The Secret to Turkey: Bacon

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emptywheel
If all goes well, by the time you read this post, I'll be mid-move. Yep. The day before Thanksgiving! But planning ahead has led me to do something this year that I always forget to do until actual Thanksgiving: explain how I used bacon…
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How Obama's DOJ Sold Out American Citizens In the Robo-Signing Criminal Plea

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bmaz
Yesterday afternoon there was a critical guilty plea entered in the ongoing robo-signing mess that lies beneath the festering mortgage crisis. The former executive of a company that provided documentation used by banks in the foreclosure…
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ECPA Amendments and Privacy in a Post Petraeus World

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bmaz
One of the issues making the rounds like wildfire today was a report from Declan McCullagh at CNET regarding certain proposed amendments to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The article is entitled "Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds…
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Redirecting the Redirected: Returning Attention to Climate Change Policy and Planning

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Rayne
Corporate interests with strong ties to conservative politics have undermined American’s awareness and understanding about climate change. Record profits from fossil fuel businesses have been threatened by talk of reducing consumption. Rather…
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Karzai Frustrated by US Lies Relating to Parwan Prison Agreement

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Jim White
Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out yesterday, calling for the US to live up to the agreement signed last March that hands over complete control of the prison at Parwan to Afghanistan. As I pointed out while Lindsey Graham was throwing…
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97 House Republicans Join Latest Mob Attack on African-American Obama Appointee

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emptywheel
Van Jones Eric Holder Valerie Jarrett Shirley Sherrod And now, Susan Rice. Republicans are orchestrating yet another mob attack on one of President Obama's African-American appointees. In this case, 97 House Republicans have signed…
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David Petraeus' Response to Climate Change: MOAR DRONZ!

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emptywheel
When I saw DHS is acquiring more drones this morning, I joked that the policy response of government agencies when they fail at their core function is to ask for more drones. Pretty sure there's direct correlation bet size of NatSec departments…
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Why Does Matt Yglesias Hate Exports, Innovation, and Productivity Growth?

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emptywheel
I was interested to read this post from Matt Yglesias, which purports to prove that "nothing will bring back manufacturing employment." Yglesias' logic is that overall manufacturing employment is falling, largely because of more automation,…
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Romney’s White Whale: Old Man's IT and the Election That Got Away

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Rayne
ArsTechnica did a comparison between Mitt Romney’s and Barack Obama’s campaigns’ information technology expenditures. They note a few key attributes that differentiate the Romney campaign's use of IT: Outsource anything that’s not…
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Another Veep Loser Planning to Quit?

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emptywheel
Back when the 2016 GOP nomination kicked off (a good 5 days before Mitt got around to losing officially), here's one way Paul Ryan's anonymous advisors envisioned insulating his Presidential ambitions from any damaging votes: quitting. They…
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West Gets the Recount He Wanted, Deficit Increases to 2146 Votes, Still No Concession

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Jim White
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWyzzn4-xI[/youtube] Displaying the logic that saw him "retire" from the military with a $5000 fine for torture that in effect served as a plea deal to allow him to avoid up to eleven years in a military…
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Silent Talking Points: Don't Tell the Terrorists We Know They Exist

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emptywheel
Between the extensive leaking from the so-called closed hearings on Thursday and Friday (Spencer's got a good wrap-up here) and the Sunday shows (LAT has a good wrap-up here), we've got a little better understanding of the Administration's current…
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What If It Were the Real Muslim Housewives of Tampa Bay Scandal?

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emptywheel
In all my coverage of the Petraeus scandal, I haven't really touched on the aspect that regular readers of this blog were presumably least surprised about: the virtually unchecked authority the FBI has to snoop. As always, Chris Soghoian and…
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Coming To America: Formula One Is In Austin

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bmaz
It has been a very long week. Time to let loose. For a change, we open up with with the Formula One circus. For the first time since the not much loved race in Indianapolis gave up the Brickyard ghosts in 2007, Grand Prix returns to the United…
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What Does Dunford's Confirmation Hearing Tell Us About the Path Forward in Afghanistan?

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Jim White
Yesterday, both Marcy and I discussed significant events that could have a tremendous impact on what lies ahead for the role of the US in Afghanistan. Marcy found that for the first time, the Treasury Department has named a Taliban figure…
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