Uncle Dave Macon - Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel

Happy birthday to Uncle Dave Macon, who is 137 138 years old today. Or would be if he hadn't died in 1952. Here he is with his band in 1927.

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H/t DailyKos

The Right Lurches Rightward

More analysis of the Right, this time by Eve Fairbanks in the Washington Post. She looks at the current freshman House Republicans, and what they mean for the future.

What will the Republican Party's new guard look like? The answer lies in that most extreme and uncompromising of numbers: zero. The new guard is fiercely stubborn, gutsily insubordinate, drama-loving and -- compared with the 82-percent-for-compromise old guard -- unadulteratedly ideological. And it could take the GOP off an even higher cliff than the one the party lurched off two years ago.

Glenn Greenwald Discusses The Right

The title gives it in a nutshell: The right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity. But as usual with Greenwald, the whole thing is worth reading.

Krugman on the Economy, Again

Here's the money quote for me:

How bad is it? Normally sober people are sounding apocalyptic. On Thursday, the bond trader and blogger John Jansen declared that current conditions are “the financial equivalent of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution,” while Joel Prakken of Macroeconomic Advisers says that the economy seems to be on “the edge of the abyss.”

Read it here.

Mountain - Blood Of The Sun - NY 1970

Like the recent Blue Cheer post, this is an example of heavy metal before the term existed. The bassist, Felix Pappalardi, was a music biz heavyweight who had decided to become a working musician on the side. Among other things he had produced Cream's breakthrough album, Disraeli Gears. Here in some amateur footage, he's just a member of the band, while Leslie West claims early guitar god status.

The Bailout and its Discontents

Following up on yesterday's post, here is Sirota again on how things look after the populist pushback of Monday.