My Short Take on the IRS Targeting Tea Baggers, Story.

Republicans. So used to lying they actually believe it is a scandal when honest people try to catch them at it.

Guess What? I Love the Ballet.

 

 

And ballerinas.

One of Those Rare Moments I Agree Wtih Althouse.

Naturally  it is not politics.  Something more trivial than that.  American Idol.

She like me thinks  that guest  coach was giving some much needed  professional pointers on singing ballads.  Go  here for that.

Her quote:

"A painful moment last night on the dying show they call "American Idol." The contestants were singing old standards, and Connick obviously knows how to sing them well, but his efforts to help them sing those songs fell on — it's mean to use this cliché, which is why I'm violating my rule against clichés — deaf ears."
 

I gave up on AI years ago and started watching again this year because of a lady friend did.  And I am a musician of sorts.  I can deal with it  as long as I keep in mind, it is TV product.  And part of the fun of it, is complaining about it.  Now last night I was commenting  on my FB page.  And one of my friends  disagreed with me  siding with Harry Connick  telling the one singer to sing the purer  version, instead of some more stylized version.  I agreed with the ultimate  direction:

Sing the melody.

Earlier today I revisited that thread, and made the following  observation:

 "Follow up. First, I can not sing for real. Best I can do is "imitate." And not well for the record. But I that that was the point HC was making. (Don't imitate,) sing the melody."

 

I really think I got what  Connick was saying.  Don't immitate.  Sing damnit!

 

Mrs. Palin Does Not Heart the D.C. Press Corps Dinner.

 I will be brief. And employ sarcasm. (You have been warned.)

"Yea Sarah Palin! You tell them girl! Cause the fate of the nation, if not humanity itself, rests on the matter of whether the DC Press Corps throws one party a year. Or not."

What a twit.

Change the  I in twit to an A  if you like. 

And since the last job she had was with the elite media, and got fired, I think she has some issues, here.

Fox News Nazis: No Constitution For You!

Go here for  Jon Stewart's brilliant take down of the freedom and constitution hating racists  over at Fox. 

And I am not sorry  Bob Beckel.  You are cast out.  You have a long way to go for pennance, and redemption.