GOP still snoozing in SC

From Politico, comes the best non-story of the upcoming election season: GREENVILLE, S.C. — In the first two presidential states, the GOP picture is clear enough: Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann top the polls in Iowa and Romney is the candidate to beat in New Hampshire.As for South Carolina, the other critical early state, it’s anybody’s guess.The first-in-the-South primary couldn’t be any more unsettled. By this point in the 2008 campaign, the...

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Welcome to my breakdown

Looking at some famous movie-breakdowns and engaging in some general acting-out on this steamy Monday in the south. I have helpfully catalogued some of my favorite nervous breakdowns in films. Comments welcome, and feel free to link your own personal favorite personality-disintegrations on celluloid!~*~All alcoholics love this scene ... did he drink or not? Is a phantom bottle of bourbon as damaging as a real one? Aside: I just love how Stephen...

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Dissing dogs

In my last thread, I was lectured once again, about how there was 'no evidence' against America's Sweetheart, Casey Anthony. I am really tired of hearing this uninformed, ignorant bullshit, so let's address the subject head-on. Why don't people believe the dogs in this case? More to the point, why do they believe them 99% of the time, but in this case say the dogs' alerting makes no difference? As of course you all know (and if you don't, have...

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There can be no true equality for women

... as long as the young, pretty, middle-class white girls get by with murder. And if she were an ugly fat girl? Old? Black? Male? I think we all know the answer to that. Depressed at how far we have NOT come. This is not justice. At left: Casey Anthony and attorney Jose Baez walk out of the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Florida. And she is free as a bird. NOTE: Pro-Anthony posts will be deleted, or possibly selectively quoted and mocked....

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Another Random Dead Air photo gallery (with necessary spelling correction)

Featuring the Swamp Rabbit Trail, Reedy River Falls, Liberty Bridge, South Carolina Farmers Market, and all the usual suspects. Announcement: The lovely tree at left is a CRAPE Myrtle, not a CREPE Myrtle, and please accept my profound apologies that it has taken me three whole years to correct that! (eep) ...

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Tuesday Tunes: Woodstock

I guess I shoulda waited until the anniversary of Woodstock next month to post these various versions of the song... but when I found all three versions on Youtube, I got excited and impatient. As we know, all three could disappear by August, due to ongoing record company greed. So, I decided to post them now. Which version do you like best? ~*~ First, the author's version. Woodstock - Joni Mitchell ~*~Second, the movie soundtrack version.Woodstock...

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Betty Ford 1918-2011

I was 24 years old when I walked into my first AA meeting. Too young? Certainly, I already looked like I belonged there, swathed in discarded old scarves like some pitiful hippie-ragamuffin. Although it was dark, icy and cold--January in Ohio--I had walked to the meeting at St Aloysius on West Broad Street. That fact seemed to impress the people at the meeting more than anything I had actually said, which was likely a jumble of drug-addled gibberish...

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One man gathers what another man spills

Hey you crazy kidz! I shall now explain another way the Tarot works, in addition to those ways we have already discussed.I drew The Star today! Yeah! And now I am ready to rock and roll, recite the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, hike my beloved Swamp Rabbit Trail to a fare-thee-well and then go chow down at the Pita House. Exercise and healthy food! This is all because I drew the right card. If I had drawn this one, or this one, or God forbid, this...

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Let's swim to the moon

At left: Ben Hall, at Bohemian Cafe on Saturday. One of those things about age that makes me profoundly uncomfortable: I get sentimental very quickly. Like, really sentimental. It overtakes me suddenly, and there I am, shedding tears over seemingly peculiar, unrelated or odd events. Such as Ben Hall and his guitar playing. Which was just like my late stepfather's. (Note: although the outdated link claims Ben is 18, he has now reached the...

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How to get away with murder

From the outcome of the Casey Anthony trial we learn that baby-killers go free, if they are pretty, young, middle-class white women. I find this profoundly unfair, especially considering that poor Andrea Yates had an actual diagnosis and went without her prescribed meds, yet was still found guilty. I would like to share my opinion with the jury. If one of them lived near me, I might leave a little note on their door or email them. Thus, whenever...

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Wanda Johnson rocks the house

This is Wanda's second notable appearance at DEAD AIR. Great music! Below: Wanda Johnson and her Upstate Rhythm Section, at Main Street Fridays, this evening in Greenville. She's totally aweso...

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