Jason Mraz Has Stuff To Say About The Election

If you're still deciding on a candidate this November, the most helpful tool you could use is the WWJMD?™ method. (Bracelet patent pending)

When not singing or dressed as a well-endowed underwear-clad furrie, Jason Mraz has stuff to say:

Last year Bob Dylan compiled a song list for Starbucks' Artist Choice Series. In addition to offering up a keen selection of country, blues, and jazz, he also supplied notes and commentary as to why he held the songs in such regard. BUT, the best part was the forward.

He wrote, "When I was asked to put together this collection of songs, I wasn't sure what to do. So I just grabbed a bunch of things I was into recently. Some people have favorite songs, but I've got songs of the minute -- songs that I'm listening to right now. And if you ask me about one of those songs a year from now, I might not even remember who did it, but at the moment it's everything to me."


What the fuck do this have to do with anything?......you might say:

I bring this up as today's lesson: Nothing is final. One day you're high. The next day you're low. You might have a funky, expressive, or awful haircut today, but soon it will grow into something else, something new and random. Maybe you grew up liking pop music and boy bands, but now you like a specific mash up of Electronic & Classical. You might decide you don't want to smoke cigarettes anymore; that it's just not who you are. Maybe you were a staunch republican but now have curiosities about the well-spoken and well-organized Democratic Nominee. Perhaps you were madly in love last week, but woke up today feeling comfort in solitude, without a desire to be held.


Well-spoken is elitist for uppity negro, I believe.

Let's continue:

Everything is fine. Not finAL.

We tend to instantly identify with "things." And we believe in so much, when in fact, a belief isn't known to be true. It's a hope for the truth. We hold grudges because of what someone said when we were young. We store hurtful words and replay them in our minds until we think it to be true. And some of us believe a TV commercial and think we need a faster computer, a smarter phone, a stronger pill, a more relaxed-fit jean, etc. We think that certain things, thoughts, or actions make us who we are and sometimes we become addicted to those thoughts or behaviors and then become too afraid to let them go.


In summary: Shut the fuck up, Jason Mraz.

McCain To Fake Suspend His Campaign....Again

From TPM:

John McCain made the morning show rounds today. On Fox they were virtually begging him to "suspend" his campaign again in the wake of the bailout failure yesterday on the Hill. You know, since it worked out so well the first time. McCain's answer: He just might suspend again.

Chris Dodd Stole Your Subprime Trailer

Your life sucks.

Not only were you not invited to the elite Buildabear Workshopconference, but you aren't even a member of Countrywide's VIP program, are you?

Chris Dodd is, and people are mad because he got a good deal on his mortgage.

This is a story now.

Pay attention, because fatcats like Chris Dodd are the reason why gas is $4 a gallon and he probably peed on your pool, too.

Sen. Silverfox denies all of this:

“As a United States senator, I would never ask or expect to be treated differently than anyone else refinancing their home,” said Dodd, who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee oversees the home loan industry. “This suggestion is outrageous and contrary to my entire career in public service.”

That of course is bullshit and it's a shame this will ruin his inevitability in the 2012 election.

More On Her Experience

Hillary likes to brag about the trip she took in 1996 to the Balkans:

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

...Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."

There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.

...According to Sinbad, who provided entertainment on the trip along with the singer Sheryl Crow, the "scariest" part was deciding where to eat. As he told Mary Ann Akers of The Post, "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'" Sinbad questioned the premise behind the Clinton version of events. "What kind of president would say 'Hey man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife. Oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you."

Replying to Sinbad earlier this week, Clinton dismissed him as "a comedian." Her campaign referred me to Togo West, who was also on the trip and is a staunch Hillary supporter. West could not remember "sniper fire" himself, but said there was no reason to doubt the First Lady's version of events. "Everybody's perceptions are different," he told me.

Jesus. You know your time has come and gone when 90's comedians are trashing you. Next week, it'll be Paula Poundstone.




Try again.

via Washington Post

brickbat to Idol: SUCK IT

How the fuck are you not putting Josiah through? I mean really. WTF?





Big mistake. Losing a helluva lot of money and viewers by not tapping into that.

(clears throat)

Well, we do have David:





And we here at brickbat obvs totes support Danny:





Represent, Danny. Represent.