• Dear Orly Taitz: what the f*ck? (YouTube) ... “You claim a mystifying combination of professions: lawyer, dentist, real estate agent…”....
• A miscellany of new words and phrases (New York Times) ... “i am a vegetarian with a most discriminating palate, i am a finnickytarian"....
• Community College Offers Students a Guarantee: a Job or Your Money Back (Chronicle of HE) ... The offer applies to only four programs: pharmacy technician, customer-service call-center workers, certified quality inspectors, and home-technology-integration technicians....• Bolivia to launch satellite into space (Guardian) ... The impoverished South American country, famed more for llamas and Andean peaks than technology, has created a space agency to build and launch a satellite with Chinese help....
• Stunning arial 9-11 photos (Daily News) ... Good Lord, they're for sale!
Another great band, early 80s:
Another band from roughly the same era--perhaps 4 years earlier: Gang of Four. My favorite song of theirs is “I found that essence rare.”
I couldn’t find a decent YouTube video of that song, but you can listen to it here:
Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV• The Smiths (1982-1987)
The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini
She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-Bomb
For the H-Bomb!
I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for....
• The Violent Femmes (1982-1986)
• The Gang of Four (1977-1982)
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These songs sure make me smile.
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