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...Unless 930 isn't 930. Bush, fighting fire with fire, has a back-up lawsuit percolating to force 13 Republican counties to force canvassing boards to count all acceptable military absentee ballots and get them in by the deadline...
...Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes you on a spellbinding journey of his vocal arsenal - swooping, clipping, playing with the beat, riding herd on the back-up band. In those lines, as with the rest of the song, you never know where Jones is going to lead you; at the same time none of it sounds forced or contrived. The whole happy confection is aided by the spare production of his first producer (and discoverer), Pappy Daily...
...Cube is Steve Jobs' baby, and it certainly bears some of the Apple CEO's famous hubris. Jobs has described it as the perfect computer. Trouble is, it seems to be asking for a perfect human to operate it--no careless fingers, no need to make back-up Zip files, no changing minds about what you've plugged in. Instead of blaming it, though, I feel like apologizing to the digital brain for my flaws. After all, a computer that doesn't stoop to notice its imperfections is so very...
...should be able to stay alive. And while Cheney is hardly lingering on death's door - doctors assure us he's not even in death's neighborhood - the GOP's decision to present a 59-year-old with serious cardiac health issues as the best candidate to play back-up to a younger, fitter presidential candidate is raising eyebrows in the medical community...
...looking to go to Seattle, and whatever they want me to do, I'll be happy to do," he said. "Special teams, back-up, starting, whatever. I'm ready to take whatever role and play my ass off. I can't wait to get going. But I have a paper due Wednesday...