BitsBlog After Hours: The Beatles – Abbey Road

Some standards shouldn’t be broken up into singles. The Beatles Abbey Road LP is one such. So, here’s the whole thing.

The official unemployment numbers, once massaged into something more palatable than the reality of the situation, stands at around 8%… and has for some months, now. David Hogberg, in Investor’s Business Daily:

The unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.2% in

Q: Why did the leftist cry himself to sleep?
A: He can’t recall.

That’s one of the many comments I’m hearing this morning, following a Scott Walker win in Wisconsin, that we predicted here.

For all of the trying to

Former president, and permanent Arkansas trash, B.J. Clinton was on the campaign trail, but for whom was B.J campaigning, from Jeff Cox, CNBC:

Former President Bill Clinton told CNBC Tuesday that the US economy already is in a

I posted about this track years ago:
Leslie West of Mountain, for his “Stormy Monday” as recorded at the Atlanta Pop festival. 19 minutes of as good a musical description of a thunderstorm as I’ve ever heard… powerful, musical, playful,

William Tucker in The Spectator:

Since the incomparable William F. Buckley, Jr., has already dealt with this subject in 1958, I defer to his inimitable style in introducing the subject of today’s column:

Halfway through the second term of Franklin

From a suppose institution of higher education,   City University of New York, via Susan Edelman New York Post:

A steering committee led by Joyce Moy, director of CUNY’s Asian Research Institute, ran faculty focus groups based on “identity.” The groups

Here’s another of my all-time favorite tracks: Koinonia – Countin’ The Cost, from the Celebration LP. This thing has a groove that is infectious.  It’s just the audio from the LP.

If you prefer, here’s a vid of the same

Patterico, whos day job is assistant district attorney, demonstrates his professional skills by giving the Speedway Bomber, b/k/a Brett Kimberlin an on-line anal examination.   Patterico  makes his case in detail.   From Patterico examination of Kimberlin, I draw two easy conclusions:

ABC News is among those discussing this:

ABC News’ Ben Forer and Olivia Katrandjian report:

The soft drink industry is fighting back against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large sugary drinks, by running an eye-catching, full-page

California is paying the price for recycling a failed governor, Governor Moonbeam, a/k/a Jerry Brown.   Can Governor Moonbeam read the writing on the wall and pull the plug on pipe dream of bullet train.   I kind of doubt it, from 

Evidently the democrats in Wisconsin are in full panic mode.    There June surprise fell apart in an hour, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Pathetic. Wisconsin Democrats dropped a Scott Walker love child story today – two days out from the

I note with some sadness, the passing last night of Richard Dawson, of Family Feud and of Hogan’s Heroes, and a number of other projects. He was 79. Here he is talking about the British accent he took on in

The Obama administration is confused. It wants to pretend illegal combatants have the same rights as citizens, but Obama desperateness wants to look like a commander-in-chief. So what do you do when your reprobate of an attorney general, Eric Holder

This is one of my all-time favorite tracks… George Howard’s Dancing in the Sun… the title track from the LP. It’s a tune I played a lot of when I was doing Jazz radio years ago. Recorded in 1986, we