I'd like to say a very heartfelt thank you to Dave Allen for his post over at Pampelmoose. It may be the single most heartening thing I've read in a week at least.
Ralph Stanley is the last remaining survivor of the Stanley Brothers, and as such is one of the few remaining figures of the first generation of bluegrass musicians. He’s from the part of the mountains the Carter Family came from, and has had a recent career revival for his part in the Oh Brother Where Art Thou movie.
Listening to Ralph Stanley's iconic voice speaking in support of Barack Obama gives me tremendous encouragement and hope. I hope it does the same for you.
Ralph Stanley, a Radio Ad Supporting Obama in West Virginia - pampelmoose
This one is just too funny to pass up. How could Rubbermaid have not seen this coming?
I do have to say that I wouldn't have written about this, though, if there weren't a very direct political tie in. That being the fact that the revised name of the Sturdy Station applies just as accurately to the current White House as it does to the diaper
changing station.
It's hilarious.
So where are we five years after 9/11? Freaking out over tiny cartoon boobies in the original Starbucks Coffee logo, apparently. And no, I'm not joking. I thought the Janet Jackson fiasco was embarrassing enough, but there are people in our very own Pacific Northwest that are bent on making Americans look
even more stupid, prudish and small minded than that did. Although this is on a much smaller scale and therefore hopefully won't be noticed by the rest of the world.
These songs are salve for my soul, grieving for the actions of my government, saddened by the gullibility and stupidity of so many of my fellow Americans, and weary from ongoing 


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