Today in American Exceptionalism: "We're Number 65! We're Number 65!"

From CNNMoney: "The U.S. is 65th in world on gender pay gap":

In the "news"...

I have been avoiding news channels lately, but I just surfed past Erin Burnett's show on CNN with my remote control and watched them deviate from the EBOLA HYSTERIA MONTH script for ten minutes (at about 7:50pm on 10/27/14) to warn us that ISIS might be preparing to use captured American shoulder-fired missiles to shoot down aircraft (followed immediately by a commercial for Northrop Grumman weaponry).

Jack Bruce 3/14/1943--10/25/2014

Unfortunately, we'll never see another Cream reunion like this one in 2005.

Ginger Baker is pleased at the end of this version of "White Room." But here's a version from the 60s with more vocals from Jack Bruce and more Wah pedal from Eric Clapton.


I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd;
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.

Just in case you haven't seen the FckH8 video with the princesses yet...

... enjoy "F-Bombs for Feminism: Potty-Mouthed Princesses Use Bad Word for a Good Cause."

The video speaks for itself in very clear language.

Before This Afternoon's Rain . . .

...there were great clouds over Manhattan at lunchtime.

Click the image to embiggen this iPhone panorama.

Maybe it's a post-Sandy feeling, but I sometimes think that Manhattan Island looks so thin and vulnerable between the Hudson River and a cloudy sky.

Tuning 1977

"Tuning '77" - a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety.

It's the 10th Anniversary of Jon Stewart destroying Crossfire on October 15, 2004

Jon Stewart: How old are you?
Tucker Carlson : 35.
Jon Stewart: And you wear a bow tie.

Please watch the whole fifteen minutes.

I'm done watching the news for a little while...

Each HYSTERICAL EBOLA story should have this disclaimer: As an American you are more than 10,000 times more likely to be killed by a bullet.

— TrueBlue Liberal (@TrueBlueLiberal) October 13, 2014

Nice to Know I'm Getting LESS Conservative with Age

I took this "Are You A Republican?" quiz back in 2011 and I was 2% Republican, "...a complete liberal, utterly without a trace of Republicanism. Your strength is as the strength of ten because your heart is pure..."

 I just took it again and my score improved to Negative 3% Republican:

I am: -3% Republican.

"You're a damn Commie!  Where's Tailgunner Joe when we need him?"

Are You A Republican?

I don't think that plant is going to survive.

If you liked Bill Murray singing Roxy Music at a Tokyo karaoke bar in Lost In Translation, you will love this video of him singing 'Shelter from the Storm' along with Bob Dylan in this video pulled from the upcoming St. Vincent: