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Bill O'Reilly has been spouting off recently that the Daily Kos website is a "hate speech" site, just like the KKK. The KKK, of course, is an organization that does not like blacks, jews, catholics, gays, or just about anyone who isn't an inbred cracker. Cracker. Its like saying "nigger" but for white people. And I think "cracker" is a good way of describing a white person who still, in the 21st century, believes in eugenics and the young Earth. Bill O'Reilly is a rich cracker with a TV show, but he is a cracker none the less. He may himself be a Catholic, but for their purposes he would find many a friendly ally in the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan. Here is an article in Esquire about a little museum some crackers built in Kentucky, a state I can only forgive its continued existence because it keeps the Jim Beam coming. James Dobson, a prominent conservative Christian spokesman, compares the Supreme Court to the Ku Klux Klan. Pat Robertson, anot...

Soon, we at goofballs will be talking about music. And by music I mean, "Real" "Music", and by "real music" I mean largely Germanic composers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Why am I so racistly choosing those composers? Because I'm half German, that's why. And if you don't like it, then fuck you. Seriously though, I will have at least on Czech composer (Dvorak, duh), in the mix for this first series. But, there is no doubt that I will branch out into the SVS (Second Viennese School), and a large number of French Romantic, Post-Romantic, and Impressionistic composers. Maybe I'll compare Pink Floyd to 19th Century music. Who knows? I'm CRAZY LIKE THAT ..

The Allegretto for Opus no. 92 . My goodness, it hast taken my breath away. Bra-vo, good Sir, Bra-vo!

Many and copious thanks for the Marcia Funebre of Opus No. 55 . And thanks for setting the bar so very, very high that Johannes Brahms waited 47 years, 23 years after being called "the chosen one" by Robert Schumann in 1853, to even attempt to write a symphony -- a form so highly perfected by yourself. Also, sorry about your hearing, and the syphilis. You are ichiban, Your faithful and humble fan, Christopher

When I was a toddler, a plucky Croatian/Irish American progressive named Dennis Kucinich , at the time only 31 years old, ran for and won the mayorship of a steel town that bordered my hometown to the West; the same steel town where I was born in 1975 at Rainbow Babies and Children. The Dennis Kucinich Mayoral tenure is considered Cleveland, Ohio's most turbulent. The Cleveland Free Times recently ran a cover story about a mob assassination attempt against the young mayor, who was fighting an uphill battle against the entrenched corruption and graft that had permeated Northeastern Ohio politics in the 1970s (an era in which my father and mother witnessed first hand a mob car bombing at the steps of Cleveland City Hall, drawing obvious parallels to the 1920s). In 1979, family friend and former colleague of my father George Voinovich, a Cleveland lawyer, ran against Kuchinich and won the mayoral race. He oversaw a brief period of economic growth for a city that has been behind the 8...

I saw this while perusing The Assimilated Negro . James Baldwin ? Who is this person? Why have I never heard of him? Blogspotters.. now you know what books to get me for xmas!..

That is a GOOD QUESTION . The question was asked by Steve Skvara tonight at Soldier Field during the MSNBC Democratic Presidential Debates hosted by Keith Olbermann . 1) We live in a country whose political dialog is dominated by non-issues like gay marriage and teaching "intelligent design". 2) We live in a country where 7 figure earning lobbyist cook up terms like "death tax" and "tax relief" to sell policies which grant billions in corporate welfare and tax benefits to the very rich. 3) We live in a country who can spend 10 figures on research on a stealth warplane, 14 figures (a one with 14 zeros) on a war of choice and have 50,000,000 (that's 8 figures) Americans without health insurance, 9,000,000 of them are children . 4) Three words: No Child Left Behind 5) Farm subsidies that only benefit large agribusiness like Cargill, ADM, ConAgra Foods and the like, but keep actually farmers in perpetual debt, and keep our children swimming in high fruct...