Anti-Unionol

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AFSCME wins April Fool's Day with a fake advertisement for a suppository that destroys the middle class. Note: "the drug is not for everyone including pregnant women, people with families, if you have a pre-existing mortgage or if you suffer from student debt"

Unskew the ACA!

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It's obviously not surprising that Republicans are making up various reasons to ignore the relatively positive news on health insurance enrollments. Ted Cruz actually used the phrase "fuzzy math." (As.

Wussy Live

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Erik made the trip from Rhode Island yesterday so we could see a rare gig by the Cincinnati-based band Wussy, who we've mentioned before. In 2005, they released Funeral Dress, one of my very favorite albums of the last decade, and they've followed that up with...

Baseball Songs

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Happy Opening Day. For that, here's two of the best songs ever written about an individual baseball player. First, there is Buddy Johnson's "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" Count Basie had a hit with this the next year that I think is the...

MLB 2014

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I  don't know what to do with my traditional "bet" of a Planned Parenthood donation with Most Valuable Commenter Howard, since I no longer think highly of the Yankees. But I'm still happy to pledge a donation in Howard's if the Yankees fail to make the...
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