Weird Al, Dan Grobstein File

Regular readers may recall I am a fanatic Weird Al fan; I literally own everything he has ever produced. A friend notes that Rolling Stone recently presented 25 things you didn't know about Weird Al. Oh, and he has a new CD coming out.

Dan Grobstein File

• Twitter Wishes 4.5 Million Osama Bin Laden-Related Tweets Into Their API Cornfield
• Copyright complaint kills Peanutweeter
• Great article from @KagroX on energy industry educating our kids.
• Deliberately Cutting Holes in the Safety NetPeople with no hope are compliant until they become a mob. The people doing this tell us that they are the most patriotic and most religious people in the country
• Some New START data releasedIt's easy to forget how many nukes are out there. And these are the ones that are better controlled. Who knows what's up with Pakistan's or the many other nuclear powers?
• Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago)
  6/18/11 7:00 PM
  "Page One" has made a hero of NYTimes media reporter David Carr. Ignaity likes it, Christy not so much. Saw this screened at netroots nation. Enjoyed it very much. I saw David Carr at a talk about spy magazine several years ago at the ny public library and don't remember his voice being that gravelly.
• Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago)
  6/19/11 8:30 AM
  Q. "Would you want to drink human pee in your water?" Me: "Instead of duck shit? You bet!" I cannot believe that anyone would be this stupid. The dumper. Not the pee-er.
• Only 15 Percent of Virginia House of Delegates Seats Are Being Contested
• Fox viewers: The 'most consistently misinformed media viewers'
• Voter supression by GOP
• Bush the liberal
• Some large corporations are pushing for a tax holiday to bring back offshore profits, but the economic benefits were limited the last time such a break was given.
  The money is left overseas for a reason: to lower the already low rates that they pay already. There's no demand. Corporations have nothing on which to spend the money they already have. That's why you need government spending on big domestic projects to put people to work. Who then pay taxes on their pay. Which then can reduce the deficit (which isn't important right now). The treasury can borrow long term at absurdly low rates. Do it and spend the money.
• Why Netflix Surged
• Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
• A series in which family history dovetails with the invention of e-mail begins with a look at the computer-programming revolution at M.I.T. in the 1960s.
• Fox News proves Jon Stewart right
• If you can make Fred Astaire dance with a Dust Devil, can you put a politician next to Reagan?
• Bond King to Congress: Get Real!
• Government Without Tax Revenue
• Republicans sleazy and unethical; also, sun rises in East.
• Howard Weaver (@howardweaver)
  Re Gannett layoffs: In March, Gannett disclosed that it paidCEO Craig Dubow $9.4 million last year, double his 2009 pay.
• Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark) Whatever happened to the zillions of Arabic speaking diplomats supposedly brought on after 9/11? Sure haven't seen them on Arab TV lately.
• Adventures with debt-ceiling Kabuki, cont.