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USA Today has a thorough article considering the pros and cons of raising/abolishing the cap on Social Security taxes. Ha ha ha ha. The rich don't pay an effective rate of 50%, that's hog wash. The federal rate with deductions and other tricks gets down to an effective rate of 18%. I used to be for...

ebay's flooded with them now. What really gets me is Djangos.com had a blowout sale for that old Entertainment! CD a few weeks before the Rhino CD was released: $5.49, free shipping! It's probably gone, but I only found out because google.com still had that webpage cached. Djangos.com had the EMI v...

Intellectual property concerns are overrated. In this country, our copyright laws are held hostage to the Steamboat Willie rule, hardly an argument for innovation in an economy. Look, it all comes down to which country has the talent pool to develop and retain in building an economy. Since our count...

That's a hard disc to find, or maybe was until the Rhino came out.

Another vote for LCD Soundsystem which has been in heavy rotation for quite a while. If you're into that kind of stuff, definitely get the DFA Comp #2. I need to spin The Kills and Demon Days a bit more. I'd agree with your initial take on Demon Days, and unfortunately, I think it may be a victim of...

Forever is a long time. Oil is increasingly denominated in Euros, so we're now having to compete with another reserve currency. At $52 per barrel, that giant sucking sound you hear is the sound of new petroeuros being created. When China opts to let the yuan float, look for yet another reserve curre...

How long until the U.S. has to be put on an IMF imposed austerity program??

When you're the world's biggest debtor nation, it can't be too far off.

I haven't heard any of the remasters, but I have the DCC and the target CD. To my ears, the tonalities are definitely different, but it's tough to say which is better. Yes, the DCC does sound better for the Lyin' Eyes intro, but once the vocals start I prefer the target. Sounds like SH boosted the ...

Got some samples from bittorrent. Looks and sounds like compression, maybe limiting and compression - similar to what's on the Television remasters, the punk box set, etc. I got a 1995 remaster, so I'll make a comparison with that when it arrives. I'm a sucker who ended up buying this today. It's a...

I just have the original Polydor CD release. Sounds good to me. Interestingly, I tried to make a CD-R with the "Eat A Peach" tracks added in (restoring the transition to Mountain Jam, for instance). I was foiled by the fact that the tracks from EAP had a slightly different sound to them. Both CDs w...

Matt can't answer the phone right now. He's too busy making money off of oil stocks. Typical Republican -- get the libs all bent outta shape on social issues and then run off laughing to the bank!! Hello Strecher, would you belive I was at cousin Lee's house? We were discussing how to become more i...

So, Matt, where do you come down on stem cell research? I'm hoping you don't share the President's hypocrisy on this issue ... if you believe all life is sacred and therefore we can't "kill" innocent babies (embryoes to the educated world) in order to save others, killing murderers cannot be correc...

It's kind of a stretch there. You're making some pretty broad assumptions based on some vague analysis. If that's the case, why are murder rates in non-death penalty states significantly lower than those of death penalty states? Then you'd have to ignore the countless other social variables of the ...

Average of murder rates among death penalty states in 2003: 5.3 Average of murder rates among non-death penalty states in 2003: 2.9 Overall murder rates are WAY down from 10 years ago. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169 Looks like the "deterrent effect" isn't working.

MK -- thanks for posting this -- news I can use.

Let's hope the "bonus tracks" are more than just the Yellow EP, which is what was on the Infinite Zero reissue.