That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane—Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn—world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt, no, strength. The ladder starts to clatter with a fear of height, down, height.
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games and a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered crop. 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.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Lyrics: R.E.M. / Links: Trix
Mornng lineup:
Meet the Press: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Former DNC Chair/Vermont Gov. Howard Dean; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R); Roundtable: Savannah Guthrie (NBC News), Chuck Todd (NBC News), Eugene Robinson (Washington Post) and Rich Lowry (National Review).
Face the Nation: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK); Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D); Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R); Roundtable: John Harris (Politico), Major Garrett (National Journal), John Dickerson (CBS News) and Jan Crawford (CBS News).
This Week: Widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy Vicki Kennedy; White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew; Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Keith Olbermann (Formerly of Current TV), Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, Former Rep. Artur Davis (DR-AL) and Terry Moran (ABC News).
Foxz News Sunday: White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Liz Marlantes (Christian Science Monitor), Shannon Bream (Fox News) and Charles Lane (Washington Post).
State of the Union: White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew; Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D); Former CEO of Hewlett Packard Carly Fiorina; Dan Lothian (CNN); Susan Page (USA Today); Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D); Reliable Sources: Tom Goldstein (SCOTUSblog); Radio Host Michael Medved; Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg News); University of Maryland Professor Mark Feldstein; Gail Shister (TV Newser); Lauren Ashburn (Daily-Download.com); Michelle Cottle (Daily Beast/Newsweek).
The Chris Matthews Show: Joan Biskupic (Reuters); John Heilemann (New York Magazine); Katty Kay (BBC); Pete Williams (NBC News).
Up with Chris Hayes: Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D); Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT); Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R); Heather McGhee (Demos); Maria Hinojosa (NPR); Glenn Greenwald (Salon.com).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on Stuxnet, the sophisticated computer worm that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program (preview); a report on the tiny and prosperous Middle Eastern country of Qatar (preview); and, a report on the emerging black market for European white truffles (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart engaged in some schadenfreude at the expense of CNN and Fox News.
And Stephen Colbert was crushed by Chief Justice John Roberts' decision to side with the court's liberals.
Note: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be airing reruns this week.
Elsewhere...
Atlanta Sheriff Roger Garrison wished everybody would stop talking about that time he dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. For the sake of his family.
"I don't deny it was stupid, looking back now," Garrison told the station, "but there again I say what 21 or 22 year-old in this world hasn’t made some stupid mistakes?”[...]
"I don't espouse any of that. It's just insane that politics digresses to this state," he said.
The release of the photos comes at a bad time for the sheriff, who is facing a fight for re-election next month.
"I don't think anyone who knows me is going to think anything of this," Garrison told Atlanta's CBS affiliate. "But it's just sickening and it hurts my family."
Meanwhile...
The Republican Party of Texas adopted its 2012 platform which, among other things, opposes the teaching of "critical thinking skills."
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
And, in tangentially-related news...
A New Hampshire State Rep. used his own "critical thinking skills" to link public kindergarten and high crime rates.
Representative Bob Kingsbury said he's been working on a theory since 1996, when he analyzed local crime rates and compared them to a list of communities that offered public kindergarten. Then, he told his colleagues, Laconia offered kindergarten and had the highest rates of crime. Meanwhile, surrounding towns, some of which didn't offer kindergarten, had less crime. [...]
Kingsbury wrote to all of his then state representatives, informing them of his research. To his dismay, the state Legislature has since joined the remaining 49 states in mandating public kindergarten. "And we have more crime today," he said.
In addition to kindergarten, Kingsbury also linked the rise of crime to the decline of gun ownership and to fact that boxing is no longer taught in school or offered as a sport.
EPIC FAIL.
- Trix