Beatles MP3 player

Well now, this is really a lot of fun. 

A better version of Bruno Mars

Hey, I found a better version of Bruno Mars at the Grammys.  You’ll have to suffer a promo spot first but the quality is far better than the YouTube version in my previous post.

~ Tom

Bruno Mars is totally cool…

I finally remembered to record the Grammys this year.  (The last couple of years I missed them).  Anyway, I’m a bit late on reporting my impressions, but aside from the Whitney Houston tributes, none of the live performances (even Bruce and Adele) rang my bell EXCEPT Bruno Mars!  I really had not paid any attention to this guy and it was the first time I had ever seen him and his awesome band.  Let me tell you, it was a perfect, exciting, ass-kicking performance in every regard.  And, it was live!

I could only find one YouTube version of it, and it’s a bit rough, but it still comes through in all its raw glory.  I loved it then, and love it now.  Enjoy

Bruno Mars at 2012 Grammys

Self portraits

I found this web page to be very interesting.  Nice if you can make yourself to look anyway you want – I mean did Peter Paul Rubens really look that suave and cool?  Much harder to pull off in a photograph.

Citizens United revisited

In early January I wrote this post about the Montana Supreme Court refusing to follow the disastrous “Citizens United” decision rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court . 

It now appears that my hope of SCOTUS reopening the matter could come about sooner rather than later.  Check it on HuffPo now.

The outrage continues…

The other night I was watching the Maddow show when she did a segment on how the odious Gov. Scott Walker was using money that will come to Wisconsin from the foreclosure fraud settlement to help balance the budget.  Of course the reason Walker has a shortfall in his budget is because he cut taxes on corporations and fat cats.  I went poking around on the Internet to find an article about this and found one at Think Progress, which you can check out here.  The upshot is that Wisconsin is getting $140 million, $31.6 million of which goes directly to the state, presumably to be doled out to help victims of foreclosure fraud.  Instead, Walker is going to divert $25.6 million of these funds to “help close a budget shortfall.”  Wow, how much more brazen can these right wing Republican state officials get?  All I’ve got to say is that it is a good the the whole $140 million didn’t go directly to the State!

A quote for today …

"Just because they say action doesn’t mean you have to do something"  ~~ Marlon Brando