* The Music: Three Dog Night’s [1] 1972 album…”Seven Separate Fools”. (their 8th, if you count the early greatest hits collection Dunhill spit out trying to raise cash before folding)
[2] Three Dog was mostly perceived as a singles band… makers of the then-almighty 45. And it was true enough… the band’s sounds rattled AM radios and Jukeboxes for years. This one, though, gives us a slightly deeper look at the talents of the band, having only two singles on it…. “Black and White” and “Pieces of April”. Interestingly, those two singles were the only places where producer Richard Polydor’s insistence on the doubling technique became annoyingly apparent. (Or is it simply bleed from the first-pass playback?) Favorite track: “Writing’s on the Wall”, which was a B-side, as I recall.
The Album went to #6, that year, and of course “Black and White” went to #1. One of the strangest radio mixes in the world, was coming out of that tune and mixing up The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”.
The drug abuse in this band through the period is stuff of legend .. and if I recall rightly, both band members Jimmy Greenspoon and Chuck Negron wrote about that in their books. I can’t help but wonder what all that talent might have been able to accomplish, sans that issue.
The Album title itself was prophetic; When the band broke up in early ’77, the remaming members signed with Columbia, and called themselves SS Fools, like a ship.
They’re touring again, and turning out good shows… I’ve seen one of them. Wells and Hutton have pretty much taken over the vocal duties form Negron, who far as I know has never returned to the band.
Here’s their touring schedule. [3]
They’re playing nearby in August. Maybe…..
OK, anyway….
* There is always very loud support for the United Nations, from the American left. Has it occurred to any of you, that perhaps the most important thing the United Nations has ever done was to set up the country of Israel? So it is that the leftists who support the United Nations do not support the only really important action it’s ever taken. Go figure. One wonders just what they’re supporting it for.
* So, let me understand this; Hillary Clinton has named a person to run her campaign committee who as a judge was impeached by a Democrat run House… including Nasty Pelosi, Rangle, Waxman, Hoyer, Dirty Dingel, Gephardt, Boxer, and Chuckles the Clown Schumer… That is…Alcee Hastings.
I suppose, that this is Hillary only seeing value in people who, like are husband, have been impeached. Perhaps she figures she needs somebody on staff who knows how to skirt the law and get away with it. Oops…. He didn’t get away with it, so perhaps that doesn’t work, either.
Mind you, the impeachment of Hastings had bipartisan support, (the guy was basically as dirty as the inside of a proverbial honey dumper) so it wasn’t strictly a Democrat move. Which means that this appointment is going to eliminate her from both sides. Way to go, Hillary.
PS: Hey, Alcee: You may want to suggest WIlliam Jefferson to some important post in Hillary’s campaign. I hear he needs a job.
* There is no such thing as an “illegal immigrant”. Either they are immigrants, who arrived here and live here legally, or they are illegals. The former, are entitled to everything that our society offers, provided that they are willing to become citizens, which by nature of the word, would include learning the language, and adopting the United States, culturally, as well as financially. The latter are entitled to nothing whatsoever.
* Noted a second place finish in the latest OTB caption contest [4]Yes, when I think of Hillary, I think of good old number 2.
* Saint Andrew the incontinent unfurls his pen and shoves it into his own back:
“I have yet to see an iota of evidence that Thompson’s candidacy is any more than a manifestation of complete Republican panic and bankruptcy.”
Well, you see, Andrew, [5] that is a function of your inability to see any value in someone who is actually, well, you know, conservative. Your lack of ability to deal with that variable, is as solid and indication is one needs as to your total uselessness to the situation. Now, go and change your armor.
* James Joyner notes [6] that CNN is reporting it’s website is gathering more viewers than it’s TV channel. He gets into some rather nice looking charts, and an extended right up, all of which make the point. Two points that he doesn’t mention, however, are whether not the CNN web site is actually profitable. Last I knew it was not. Secondly while he is writing suggests that the media… in other words the Internet versus normal TV … is the issue, he doesn’t mention whether or not the same trends hold true with Fox news, whose TV signal has been besting CNN in viewers for years, now. As I told him in the comments, if the media were the issue the trends would be the same in both cases, and they aren’t last I saw. Perhaps the issue isn’t the medium, but rather, the content.
That point goes back to something I said earlier today [7], about the American people’s anger going up in direct proportion to how leftist the power structure is. CNN, has been leaning left for as long as they’ve been around, and that agreed to which they’ve been losing to Fox news, is in direct proportion to how that leftism is manifested on its airwaves. Which would also explain the lack of numbers over at MSNBC.