My gosh I love this kind of thing. It is exactly what I want to hear in terms of a convesation about music. 2Pac is great. Ryan is great. So Alive is greatly humorous. Katie Sullivan keeps it real (haha) and, though sounds a little bookish makes it is clear she loves this music. Unfortuantely she doesn't understand that "So Alive" is a parody of U2 and that Rocknroll Reversed in a giant fucking joke. For the last time LLORNKCOR IS A PARODY ALBUM! You want ya'llternative country listen to Cold Roses. Whiskeytown is harmless, but these commentators rely on the fact that their audience probably is not going to have any idea who the lost highway artists even are. And for the record, Ryan Adams was not influenced by Dave Matthews. I gotta belive that g-funk was not the inevitable lead from gangsta rap. Only wish is that Del TFHS had come up, yo! I cannot believe 2Pac can be called soft. I also kind of hate John Mayer. Once in about 2000, my sister was camping out for a basketball game and John Mayer was playing in a warm building and giving out hot coffee - she left to the wet and cold tent as to not listen to that garbage.

Glad to hear that American iron ore is in demand once again. After all, the growth of iron mining in the late 1870s was a big reason Minnesota's population bloomed to begin with. I think I remember that some of the people that worked in those first mines were Chinese immigrants. The piece really shines when it outlines the difficulty of a nation like the United States competing with a developing nation with no protected worker's rights, low environmental standards, and no minimum wage. I think the biggest shortfall of the report is that Globalization is presented as a choice instead of a fact.

Bluegrass? Folk? Blues? I don't know, but the Ebony Hillbillies sound rich and country. First ocra, now Banjos from Africa? I had no idea do much white Southern culture didn't originate in the Old World. If you have the time, listen to this. Enlightening, fun, and socially concious --come learn the odd truth behind "Yellow Rose of Texas."

Such a perfect commentary: purposeful, true, and funny. Grandparent's Day (the Grandfriend's phenom notwithstanding) is one of the truly great ideas of the 1990s in my opinion. May "Cotton" Tom Heflin, the father of mother's day, agree.

I get the definite feeling that this Bill Newcott does not usually like action movies and had never seen a Frank Miller Sin City story. "Sometimes" in black and white? Please. I feel like the writer of this review thinks every movie should be filled with springtime colors and the only strong contrast ought to be between good and evil. Personally, I love middle characters like Marv; Good or evil? A bit of Eddie Brock and Frank Castle are just what I like in a hero. Maybe this piece was not intended to be a cinematic review, but if it was, it completely skips the films major problem: the disconnect between the four stories (and God how I wanted to see more of The Employee in action). The best part of the review is how Bill shows us just how the noir-style voice-overs come off as silly and cheeseball. If you're a "Promise-keeper," suscribe to "Focus on the Family," and can't watch enough "700 Club," you'll dig this take on Sin City; then again, you'll probably not see Sin City as it was not advertised on the Hallmark Channel.

Fucking great! I love this! I wish all the advice I got came from a voice this damn sexy. This was helpful to me. Why aren't ad campaigns full of great voices and ideas like this instead encouraging people already riding high in SUVs to check their tire pressure and wear a seat belt? This is common sense related in a nonoffensive, non condescending way. The progenitors of breakbushoff.com would be proud.

This article does a fine job of doing what it does, but that isn't much in my unqualified opinion. It mentions barely either what the April 12, 2005 New York Times called "violent anti-Japan protests in China" or the millions of Chinese slaughtered by Japanese Imperial Army during the occupation of China and the 1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal that found members of the army guilty for the deaths 155,000 women and children (which is still very present in the minds of many Chinese). I really wanted to hear this quote by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, "Only a country that respects history, takes responsibility for past history and wins over the trust of the people in Asia and the world at large can take greater responsibility in the international community." I also feel like the real story is totally side-stepped: that even through the hate that Chinese people may feel for Japan, they are still willing to make life and make money; As of fiscal 2004, China is Japan's biggest trading partner with nearly $180 billion in trade. This exchange cuts both ways: Japanese corporations used $9.2 billion in China as foreign direct investment last year. The article only works at the very surface of events, but then again it is 3 minutes and 13 seconds long.

I keep 2 orbituaries on my wall: Mr. Rogers and Allen Ginsberg. This recording is not for everyone, but if you enjoy a live reading of "Howl" or "America," or own a copy of "Live From the Quilt," this is for you. I would say it reminds me of "Susan has AIDS and cookies," but I don't want to indebt myself to my Vox Humana professor like that. Beautiful voice on this Taylor man. I wish I had heard of him before becuase he reminds me so much of Ian of Ian and Sylvia. By the way if you have any listenable recordings of Ian and Sylvia, please contact me.

"A very American capitalism" indeed! This report is not as blatantly anti-Wal-Mart as I would like, although the pre-morning pro-Wal-Mart chanting is really disturbing. The "associates" are made to seem like controled automotons. TO be honest the new Chinese Wal-Mart chants remind me of how the CCP took folk songs about how hard life can be and transformed them into pro-Mao, pro-Communist hymns that shared little but the tune with their predecessors. For Wal-Mart coverage more to my taste, check out Frontline's "Is Wal-Mart Good for America" or The Daily Show's Ed Helm's "Wal-Mart Under Fire"
I appreciate the sentiment of the commentator, but pro-American points of view do not coincide with supporting Wal-Mart.