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Friday, June 6. 2008

Friday morning links

RFK in Palestine. Belmont

Anna Quindlen gets the gay marriage issue wrong. Ankle Biting

Oregon Health won't pay for cancer drugs, but will pay for doctor-assisted suicide. That is called Pragmatism.

NASA is doctoring temps. Ace

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Shut Up and Sing Department: Dylan praises Obama

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:10 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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oh, bob. keep your mouth shut. it's embarrassing.

speaking of bob, no free ad yesterday? the dylanologist's travels must have taken him away from the computer for a bit.
#1 kab on 2008-06-06 09:26 (Reply)
I tried to post a comment on Dylan's conversion to Obamaism all morning, but the site wouldn't let me. Is that because you were posting a story on it?
#2 sean on 2008-06-06 09:30 (Reply)
Sean: No idea why that happened.
Kab: The Dyl has an excuse, but we don't accept excuses here! We will cut his pay in half.
#2.1 BD on 2008-06-06 09:39 (Reply)
"...Dylan gives a ringing endorsement to Mr Obama, the first ever black presidential candidate, claiming he is 'redefining the nature of politics from the ground up'."

Yeah, if you consider "insipid" a matter of "redefining". Well put, Bob.

On the other hand, this comment from the article snapped things into perspective:

"I'm delighted that someone could understand what Bob Dylan says."

I couldn't agree more, so at least the article's got that going for it.

After I get through here, I'm going to pick up my guitar and play "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for perhaps the 1,000th time, and not once have I ever had the slightest clue what I'm singing about. Dylan was truly a master of his craft.

Over to the side, the liberal Times highlights one particular comment:

"Only the most gnarled cynic, or a member of the Clinton family, could fail to be moved by Barack Obama’s historic triumph"

Fads are not "triumphs."
#3 Dr. Merc (Link) on 2008-06-06 11:56 (Reply)
" . . . won't pay for cancer drugs, but will pay for doctor-assisted suicide."

W-e-l-l . . . separately or together, they support the same end for the Maoists and Greens out there: the reduction of human interference with scarce resources and the environment. What's next, state-assisted birth control? How about benevolent "retirement" of senior citizens?
#4 Steve on 2008-06-06 13:43 (Reply)
The Oregon Death plan only goes to the poorest of us. That kind of makes it worse when you think about it. How elitist to ensure that those poor ex-loggers out in the hinterlands (95% of Oregon by land mass) can look forward to some other way besides cigarettes and booze to kill themselves, and how nice of us city folk to pick up the tab.

Gives a whole new meaning to the Tax Me More crowd's lexicon.
#4.1 Phil on 2008-06-06 17:52 (Reply)
Anyone notice that Amazon.com is DOWN.

It is being reported that it went down this morning but I tried to buy something and failed last night, constant error message.

Do you know how many billions of dollars Amzn has spent on their IT infrastructure?
#5 John on 2008-06-06 15:34 (Reply)
Amazon seems to be back, but it was completely down for over six hours, at least. I e-commerce thats a lifetime.
#6 John on 2008-06-06 16:26 (Reply)
This is being pitched as a ringing endorsement of Obama by Dylan, but it doesn't really sound that way to me. He doesn't say he's going to vote for the guy, he doesn't say Obama has good ideas that will bring about the changes he's hoping for. It sounds more like what he's liking is the apparent grassroots nature of the campaign... that it's changes in the relationship between candidates/politicians and voters he's foreseeing.

Also, I've always believed that the only element of the whole Sixties thing (ownership of which Dylan has vigorously disavowed) in which Bob really believed was the civil-rights aspect. For someone who cared enough about the murder of Medgar Evers to write a song about it, just the existence of a serious black presidential candidate has to be a pretty amazing and encouraging thing.
#7 Helen on 2008-06-06 16:33 (Reply)
That's my take on it too. What he said, as the Dylanologist noted to me in an email, was about as vapid and empty as what Obama says.
#7.1 BD on 2008-06-06 17:48 (Reply)
I agree with Helen and BD.

Dylan's endorsement is about as vague as anything else Bob says when he doesn't really want to say what he really means.
#8 Lunacy on 2008-06-06 19:32 (Reply)

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