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Been meaning to post this wonderful post full of ideas for weeks...
Delicious! ICYMI in October, Ralph Benko reviews Niall Ferguson's factual assault on Paul Krugman and considers it a huge public service, ending it with, "Play taps for Private Krugman." I agree! As for the terministic screens...
Forbes.com OP/ED Much Bigger Than The Shutdown: Niall Ferguson's Public Flogging Of Paul Krugman By Ralph Benko 10/21/2013 @ 8:00AM
While America was distracted by the theatrics of the government shutdown and threat of default something of much greater importance occurred.
Niall Ferguson undertook a public flogging of Paul Krugman. Krugman’s horns now forever will show under his dislodged faux halo. For this the world will prove a safer, and much more decent, place.
Paul Krugman makes for an unparalleled intellectual foil. If he didn’t exist we’d have to invent him. Recently he has been vintage Krugman, slinging derp.
“Derp” is new slang, or perhaps jargon, with which to ridicule opponents. It is making its wayamong the left wing hipsters, blogsters, and twitsters.
2Shaymcn YouTube Channel video: First Aid Kit Emmylou Live Glastonbury 2013 ) HD Uploaded July 6, 2013. http://youtu.be/mX62R9TOQ5M More heavenly harmonies from Sweden's Klara and Johanna Söderberg. I've waited a few days in posting this because there were so many legal problems associated with the BBC's telecast of this performance that the videos were being pulled and yanked off of YouTube almost as quickly as they were being uploaded. Frankly, I didn't want to have to play a game of 'Musical Chairs' again -get it- and constantly need to be double-checking this post and replacing one embed code for another as various versions get yanked like falling dominoes.
Me, I prefer that when I place a video here on the blog -unless it's something from SVT or TV4.se that tells you upfront that it'll only be available for viewing for a finite period of time- that the video stays put and doesn't migrate somewhere. Klara and Johanna even posted a non-BBC version via their twitter feed and it got pulled down, too. In fact, here's that tweet from Monday:
For those unable to watch the BBC video of our "Emmylou" performance at Glastonbury, here is a YouTube link: http://t.co/A8xxXTZxWQ — First Aid Kit (@FirstAidKitBand) July 1, 2013
But patience pays off for you the faithful blog reader, even though you didn't know what was going on behind the scenes, as blog YouTube fave 2Shaymcn, ace Abba and Swedish and British music lover and chronicler, one of the first people I ever subscribed to when I got my YouTube account years ago, has come to the rescue once again, via the vid up top. http://www.youtube.com/user/2Shaymcn NME discusses their playlist on the last day of the English music festival here: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen/article17051318.ab
I noticed right before watching "Key Largo" for the millionth time on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday night thatliberal economist and N.Y. Times columnist Paul Krugman mentioned in a new post that he has officially and finally fallen for Klara and Johanna, finally "gets" them, after hearing their cover of Patti Smith's "DancingBarefoot "at the 2011 Polar Music Prize award telecast honoring herand Kronos Quartet. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/friday-night-music-first-aid-kit-covers-patti-smith/
i love that i still see dozens of tweets every day from people discovering @firstaidkitband for the 1st time.they all basically say "OMG!"
— wichitarecs (@wichitarecs) May 8, 2013
Here's another video of them performing "Emmylou" LIVE in Nashville that I'd meant to post here before I left for Stockholm in January. It was done for MTVUSA's The Big and Best of 2012. Uploaded December 12, 2012
