Calexico covers Alone Again Or

Nice job.

What's the matter with your feel right?

This is so groovy. Sync is a little off, sorry....



A guitar player who was gigging in the seventies told me that basically they would replace the standard metal bridge on an electric guitar with bridge made out of bone to get that sitar sound. That must be what's going on here because they're all playing Fenders.

This stuff is so funny

It's understated. Well, the hair isn't, but everything else....



Reggie Watts, ladies and gentlemen.

What's in your head?

Haunting.

Kenneth Meshoe: "Israel is not an apartheid state"

"♫ One of these things is not like the other... ♫"



From Prager University. Very well explained.

The Destiny You Sold

An excellent succinct explanation

In his analysis of the Kenyan Shopping Mall attack, Tom Rogan provides an excellent succinct explanation of the justification for Islamic Jihad. It's a "blend of theocratic absolutism and perverse consequentialism".

Of course, this raises a key question: How do the jihadists excuse their atrocities?

In the blend of theocratic absolutism and perverse consequentialism. From the jihadist perspective, their violence is justified in the service of God’s intrinsic will.

Grappling with this notion of ordained will is crucial. It affords us insight into the existential rigidity with which these terrorists regard the world. In short, Salafi Jihadists claim that the price of peace is our non-interference — they hint that our acquiescence will buy us our safety. They’re lying. Theirs is an ideology with a supra-national (and, as they see it, divine) pursuit — a global caliphate of absolute power. Take al-Shabab. As Beifuss and Bellini note in their study of terrorist iconography, Branding Terror, al-Shabab’s logo, a rifle-sheltered Koran sitting upon a green globe, is unmistakably clear in its prevailing message: This group will never find satisfaction in local politics.

Emphasis on "they're lying" is mine. Because if you are willing to murder in the name of God, you are willing to tell lies for sure. As well as to ignore those cute, little "no guns allowed" stickers.

No big deal if you don't know