heck to the yes! okay i didn’t actually *watch* the grammys, but this is awesome. he won best comedy album for his a colbert christmas album :D i’m gonna try and stick the video below too..see if that works:
omg i can’t wait for monday’s show. he’s gonna have a hilarious segment about the whole thing i just know it. i hope for cameos by all the people he beat out.. oh, it will be epic.
jimmy eat world- nothingwrong
hellz yeah kickin it to a rockin jam tonite!! weird that i hadn’t posted a jimmy eat world song on my tumblr yet, seeing as how they’re my favorite band and all. so i’m rectifying that situation right now. with a track off their ‘futures’ album. although i love all their albums- this track rocks especially hard. i love it!! now jam along like no one’s watching.. unless you jam harder when people are watching, in which case, pretend people are watching.
imogen heap- hide and seek
one of the best songs ever recorded. you think i’m exaggerating? listen, and be amazed. you might have heard it around, i hear some douche tried to remix it with his crap sounding rap. that should be a crime, messing with music this beautiful. may the flying spaghetti monster have mercy on his soul.
motion city soundtrack- so long farewell
the bonus track off their new album! we bought the album the day it came out, and like it lots. it was hella cheap too, we were like “WhaaAaAaAt??!” and also surprised that it wasn’t on the new release shelf, we had to go hunt it down among the undesirables- what the ballsack was that about best buy?? but we still gotta buy the bonus disc stuff off -*shudder*- itunes. surprised this song didn’t make it onto the regular release, it’s nice!!
he’s a smart and noted economist & conservative who isn’t afraid to speak the truth about the major failings of the recent republican party. he is a rare breed indeed and earns my respect. i’m gonna highlight this article of his & hang the link here: The GOP’s Misplaced Rage
and here are some highlights:
In a larger sense, the extremely poor economic performance of the Bush years really set the stage for the current recession. This is apparent when we compare Bush’s two terms to Bill Clinton’s. Since both took office close to a business cycle trough and left office close to a cyclical peak, this is a reasonable comparison. The truth was always that the economy performed very, very badly under Bush, and the best efforts of his cheerleaders cannot change that fact because the data don’t lie. Consider these comparisons between Bush and Clinton:
• Between the fourth quarter of 1992 and the fourth quarter of 2000, real GDP grew 34.7 percent. Between the fourth quarter of 2000 and the fourth quarter of 2008, it grew 15.9 percent, less than half as much.
• Between the fourth quarter of 1992 and the fourth quarter of 2000, real gross private domestic investment almost doubled. By the fourth quarter of 2008, real investment was 6.5 percent lower than it was when Bush was elected.
• Between December 1992 and December 2000, payroll employment increased by more than 23 million jobs, an increase of 21.1 percent. Between December 2000 and December 2008, it rose by a little more than 2.5 million, an increase of 1.9 percent. In short, about 10 percent as many jobs were created on Bush’s watch as were created on Clinton’s.
• During the Bush years, conservative economists often dismissed the dismal performance of the economy by pointing to a rising stock market. But the stock market was lackluster during the Bush years, especially compared to the previous eight. Between December 1992 and December 2000, the S&P 500 Index more than doubled. Between December 2000 and December 2008, it fell 34 percent. People would have been better off putting all their investments into cash under a mattress the day Bush took office.
• Finally, conservatives have an absurdly unjustified view that Republicans have a better record on federal finances. It is well-known that Clinton left office with a budget surplus and Bush left with the largest deficit in history. Less well-known is Clinton’s cutting of spending on his watch, reducing federal outlays from 22.1% of GDP to 18.4% of GDP. Bush, by contrast, increased spending to 20.9% of GDP. Clinton abolished a federal entitlement program, Welfare, for the first time in American history, while Bush established a new one for prescription drugs.
Conservatives delude themselves that the Bush tax cuts worked and that the best medicine for America’s economic woes is more tax cuts; at a minimum, any tax increase would be economic poison. They forget that Ronald Reagan worked hard to pass one of the largest tax increases in American history in September 1982, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, even though the nation was still in a recession that didn’t end until November of that year. Indeed, one could easily argue that the enactment of that legislation was a critical prerequisite to recovery because it led to a decline in interest rates. The same could be said of Clinton’s 1993 tax increase, which many conservatives predicted would cause a recession but led to one of the biggest economic booms in history.
(Read more here.)
