Potpourri

Paul Krugman writes that all the teabag parties prove is that the Republicans haven't changed one bit...

Semana santa...

Just A Song: Thea Gilmore wants an old soul...

Hey, man -- don't you know who I am? I'm a United States senator who consorts with some of the most expensive prostitutes in Washington, D. C. So drop everything, ignore security regulation, and let me on that damn plane...

Brussels in bloom (the city, not the sprouts)...

It would be easy to say that on Gulf Coast Highway, Eric Lindell sounds like Louisiana's answer to Delbert McClinton. Except that there's plenty of Felix Cavaliere there, too, not to mention the ghost of Doug Sahm on Lindell's cover of Willie and Waylon's "I Can Get Off On You." Listening to Lindell's blue-eyed R&B makes me yearn for summer more than usual...Speaking of the late great Mr. Sahm, The Krayolas channel Sir Douglas at top of his game in Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum). Improbably, Long Leaf Pine surpasses last year's La Conquistadora via terrific horn charts that show off San Antonio's rich musical heritage by blending R & B with the mariachi sounds of South Texas. The tragedy recounted in "Corrido Twelve Heads In A Bag" notwithstanding, Gulf Coast Highway and Long Leaf Pine make for some of the best driving and cruising music in years...

"I'm the grandmother of the kid who killed those cops." Sylvia From Over The Hill writes more about the gun culture that curses our country here...

Michele Bachman must make the people of Minnesota's Sixth District so proud. It isn't easy to make Dave Reichert look like John Locke, but she has pulled it off...