From the Facebook event invitation: In 1970, Jonathan Richman founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band (well known songs include “Pablo Picasso†and “Road Runner.â€) Band mates included Jerry Harrison and David Robinson (who later joined the Talking Heads…
“The president’s statement is right,†Mr. Isakson said Sunday on the ABC program “This Week.†“No one wants taxes to go up on the middle class. I don’t want them to go up on anybody, but I’m not in the majority in the United States Senate, and he’s the president of the United States.â€
As I’ve noted here repeatedly, the most expensive items in the federal budget are wildly popular — including with Republicans. Americans like Social Security as it is and don’t want to restrain spending on Medicare — and don’t want deep cuts to defense either.
If you’re interested in keeping up with details about the economy but don’t have the time or interest — or the stomach — to follow daily developments, then you might want to make a point of reading Bill McBride’s weekly summaries that appear every Saturday on his blog Calculated Risk.
In addition to praising Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, The New Yorker says that Patricia Lockwood “is one of the few people who makes Twitter seem like it needed inventing.”
From Les Racquet: “The risks of recording this record are profoundly obvious to us. We understand that in the music industry, successful bands have staying power through evolution and the process of getting better, both individually and collectively. Being versatile and self effacing allows artists to forge ahead, roll with the tide and represent the passions and values of themselves and their fans.”
Put a couple of reasonable people in a room together, and they could easily split those very small differences.
But it seems that Boehner could not sell that plan to more than half the House Republicans.
So he pushed for a vote on a plan that would have raised tax rates only for those earning over $1 million — a plan that would have also hit working folks hard because of cuts to the child tax credit and earned income tax credit.
Jake’s work here has included lots of networking efforts behind the scenes, but he has also written columns every two weeks for the Savannah Morning News and has overseen The Creative Coast’s excellent blog, which has included many guest posts.
The sum of these efforts has been to point out positive, sometimes progressive, sometimes unfamiliar developments to the broader community.
“Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh-oh, overflow, population, common group
But it’ll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched”
