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Ms. Magazine has a great article on church and state. [via MeFi]

Update: Apparently, Steven Williams didn’t read the article.

From The New Yorker.

OMG. I must have one of these! Too bad my neighbor listens to the radio so loud. Surely they can make one to switch off stereo receivers.

This site would be so much cooler if the songwriters posted what the songs were about. Most of the explanations are stupid, but every once in a while there’s something good. I checked out a favorite Nirvana song, "Scentless Apprentice."

Its based on this book Kurt read called Perfume…its about this
perfume maker who kills virgins for their smell and makes them into
perfume…I checked it out, cool book.

You learn something new every day. [via TMN]

Welcome to Tokyo. These are our sewers. [via TMN]

The Telegraph weighs in on the 50 Best Cover Songs Ever Recorded. [via Kottke]

Some say evolution, but most say God.

To be sure, most Americans are not scientists, and it’s probable that
the last formal exposure to biology and evolution theory for many came
decades ago in high school or college — if then. Confronted with this
question asking for thoughts about a scientific theory, it’s perhaps
surprising that even more did not choose the "don’t know enough to say"
alternative.

Buddyhead showed me the way and I just sat and watched it. [QuickTime required].

A handful of folks with some of the better (and more popular) MP3 weblogs decide on The Top 40 Bands In America for 2004. There are some great picks and choice words about the bands.

Here are my Top 10 comments made about The Top 40 Bands In America for 2004:

1. Catchy as fuckall. (Ted Leo + The Pharmacists)
2. Not the death of indie rock, but quite possibly its crowning achievement. (Guided By Voices)
3. The man re-recorded an album after more than 30 years of distance and didn’t fuck it up. Absolutely unbelievable. (Brian Wilson)
4. The crazy kids brought up a gaggle of hippies with maraccas on their SNL performance. (Modest Mouse)
5. Britt is the indie rock Buddy Holly. (Spoon)
6. Maintaining an indie aesthetic/gritty edge that’s easy-to-fake yet hard-to-capture (The Strokes)
7. If President Bush is what it takes to make Punk rock relevant again, than maybe 4 more years is just what the doctor ordered. (Green Day)
8. The Beatles of hip-hop. (OutKast)
9. They deliver for me. (The Postal Service)
10. What other band could play only 5 songs in a headlining slot at a major festival & have every fan walk away completely content? (The Flaming Lips)

Howard Dean is a good man. He’s smart, well-spoken and I truly believe he cares about this country. It’s no secret that the news media needs a spanking and Dean steps up to bat.

  "You can’t read a piece of newsprint very often in this country without being told what to think."

Damn right. That’s why I get most of my news from the internets.