“Don’t lose any sleep over me.”

It’s just not really fair anymore.

I don’t need to look to the Tea Party for proof that American evil lurks.

Because more often than not, my wants trump other people’s needs, and my moral arc continues to easily bend towards fear, desperation, self-protection and selfishness, even while I’m critiquing the President for not making the wealthy share more, not pushing back against the Tea Party and not doing enough to specifically help black America.

It’s a signifier for people who have chosen to follow the path of musk scented dumbfuckery through the stale, smoky loins of legions of sad hookers suffering from caries to an unmourned, untended grave.

Since Facebook offloads the actual streaming to its partners, there’s no need to negotiate licenses with music industry honchos. When people see on their newsfeed that friends have been listening to a new Wilco tune, a single click on the song title actually plays the song, through the third-party service.  (It feels like it’s playing on Facebook.) If you’re not a member of the service, you automatically get signed up, via your Facebook information. This makes Facebook the prime way that these services will now sign up new users.

This would be exciting

There has also been recent talk of moving the A’s to nearby San Jose or Fremont, which would theoretically boost revenues and payroll. But by then Beane might be done with baseball altogether. He long ago turned his eye to other interests: soccer, for example, another hidebound sport that seems ripe for radical rethinking. He persuaded the A’s ownership to buy a Major League Soccer team, the San Jose Earthquakes, in 2007. He consults informally for Liverpool, the English soccer club that is now owned by the principal owner of the Red Sox. Michael Lewis, who has stayed friendly with Beane, says: “If I had to guess the fantasy for Billy, my guess is the A’s move to San Jose and double the payroll. He hands the team to David Forst, and then they acquire a European soccer team that he could start running.”

"Anyone we wanted to like our band liked our band after three shows."

Only?

In 2010, the club that passed the most (Indianapolis) threw only 13 more times a game than the team that was dead last in attempts (Chicago).

That’s a huge difference when there are only 80-90 plays a game.

That's a stretch

Part of it, as Texas Monthly’s Paul Burka suggests, might be medical or medically-related.  Perry had back surgery this summer and the one thing that doctors always tell you about surgery is that it leaves you easily fatigued for months after the operation. Perry noticeably flagged in both debates as they moved past the first half hour. The second debate was two hours long. Back surgery in all likelihood had something to do with his apparent weariness and inarticulate answers.

I’m gonna think about using Joe’s little sister as a bellwether of party inclusivity in the future.

* People are, for good reason, going crazy for St. Vincent’s “Strange Mercy.”

* I don’t particularly like the album (although I very much like many of the song titles).

* I do enjoy “Year of the Tiger” (although it’s a terrible song title).

Thanks for listening.

We talk about Grazer’s next movie and the likelihood of an apocalypse in 2012. (MacLaine studies astrology and thinks the end is coming; in preparation, she is going to her ranch in New Mexico, which she believes will be safe.)