Max and the Marginalized are a blog in the form of a rock band. They do a song every week and post it on Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and a host of others.
In the "other things are happening today besides Hillary and Obama" department... NYT informed that the new scores are up from Climate Counts, one of the more interesting NPOs that I know of, and who happen to advertise a lot on this page. They track companies' commitment to climate change based on a whole host of criteria with an emphasis on emissions reductions and corporate support for legislation to help curb global warming, and pays little attention to greenwashing efforts that put a green candy shell on a piece of damaging-in-the-manufacturing-sector chocolate.
They released their scores for 2008 today, and the 3% of my brain not devoted to the Democratic primary found a lot of interesting stuff in it. Scores are on a scale of 0-100.
We did a song on HuffPost a couple weeks ago about McCain being a hotheaded old coot that is unfit to lead, and the press's lavishing of rose petals on the Straight Talk Express's trajectory.
Our flash-savvy friend slaved away and made this cartoon which I unobjectively think is pretty damn funny.
Cross-posted at Huffington Post
A song about making a choice for the Democratic ticket, without the benefit of feeling pulled by either camp's platitudes about a shining future or a near-perfect past. Enjoy!
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We are a blog in the form of a rock band that does a blog/song a week. They can all be found here.
The Flute of False Choices
They got in the mailbox
They called me at home and knocked on my door
Tuesday came by
and went like all the boring others before
It didn't feel like a choice much at all
Between a future I can't forsee and I past I don't quite recall
Not at all, my hands are tied
Between the weak and the bold or the new and the old or
the darkness and the light
The flute of false choices is playing our song tonight
I went to the highway
Where fitted sheets hung down toward my car
I took out my contacts
To accentuate the differences better perceived from afar
And having some faith it don't make me a fool
And just because I've got an eye on the numbers
That don't mean I subscribe to a dead set of rules, yes it's true
My hands are tied
After seven long years of shoving shit down our ears
about our safety and our rights
The flute of false choices is playing our song tonight
They're shouting from the hilltops calling out all megaphones
Shooting at the blank spots and hitting each one head on
'Cause when that train rolled to town, somehow I missed it
I'm on that list but I'm not enlisted
Maybe I should just stay home
'Cause in spite of what's implied
It doesn't come down to a head in the ground or a finger in the sky
Right in between my old age and my teens I'd like to make up my mind
Free from snot attitudes and these vague platitudes
To a tune trite and contrived
The flute of false choices is playing our song tonight
· WI-08: Wingnut plans to run as "conservative independent" (desmoinesdem)
· 50 percent of southerners say Obama better president than Bush (desmoinesdem)
· What Yesterday Says About Young Voters (Mike Connery)
· Max Blumenthal on the dysfunctional movement driving the GOP (Mike Connery)
· IA-Gov: Culver launches second tv ad (desmoinesdem)
· Hilarious Vid On Why We Must Vote No On Issue 2!! (Cliff Schecter)
· NY-23: Scozzafava Drops Out! (lipris)
· NY-23: Pataki Goes Rogue, Endorses Teabagger Darling Doug Hoffman (lipris)
· Dunne Considering Run For VT-Gov (Nathan Empsall)
· McGovern Grandson Looks to Challenge Thune in 2010 (Jonathan Singer)
· IA-03: Two potential challengers for Boswell (desmoinesdem)
· NJ-Gov: Daggett Goes After Christie and Corzine (Jonathan Singer)
