R. I. P., Dom DiMaggio. He wasn't really better than his brother Joe, as the ditty had it, but Dom was one hell 0f a ball player in his own right...
Just A Song: Waylon Jennings' "Love of the Common People"...
Conservatives love, love, love to tout the United States corporate tax rate of 35% as the reason why American businesses move some of their operations abroad and as a proof that we have an unfriendly business climate. The next time you see this beacon of intellectual dishonesty, you can respond with the truth, which is that loopholes reduce the effective tax rate to the point that two-thirds of corporations pay no taxes at all. The ugly truth is here and here...
Matt Taibbi tears Brian Cashman a new one here. Citizen K. readers may recall a recent first line by the master of invective. He's in top form in this article:
With his shameless, blatant attempt to buy a World Series with a half-billion-dollar shopping spree at a time when the rest of the country is scrounging under the couch cushions for ramen money, Cashman has laid the foundation for 2009 to be maybe the most entertaining year for non–Yankees fans in the history of baseball. We are all trailing six car lengths behind, waiting for the pinstriped truck to jackknife and explode in a giant conflagration of scandals and finger-pointing. In an age when huge, irresponsible financial bets have brought Western civilization to the edge of collapse, Cashman’s Yankees are perfectly positioned to become an object lesson in everything that has gone wrong with American society in the past eight years or so...
HBO has given the go-ahead for a full season of Treme, a drama set in the music community of post-Katrina New Orleans. Treme will be produced by David Simon (The Wire)...
R. I. P., Randall "Poodie" Locke...
Friday's Choice: The Band sings "The Weight" with an assist from the Staples Singers in Martin Scorcese's documentary The Last Waltz (inspired by Clever Pup):
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