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...Phish and the Grateful Dead? The answer came early in the set, as the crowd cheered and danced to "There, There," from the group's last album, Hail to the Thief, and later too, as the sea of listeners lustily sang along to Radiohead classics like "Karma Police" and "Fake Plastic Trees...
...Hipman knows, being a Radiohead fan isn't always been easy. "Fake Plastic Trees," from the bands 1995 record, The Bends, may be one of the most poignant love ballads ever written, but Radiohead has never been a band for the faint of heart. Among the subjects Radiohead has tackled head-on are alien abduction ("Subterranean Homesick Alien"), the dangers of political apathy ("2+2=5') and death ("Pyramid Song"). For a few short years in the early '90s it was possible to love the British quintet without a shred of guilt or defensiveness. On "Creep," the band's searing...
...Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who famously fought to keep the Ten Commandments displayed at his courthouse. Moore was once thought to pose a strong challenge, but he's proven to be a less than able campaigner. He recently drew ridicule for suggesting that mad cow disease was fake and denounced a state effort to track cattle as part of an effort to run private farms out of business. In Montana, two popular Democrats square off for the chance to take on beleaguered Sen. Conrad Burns, the Republican incumbent who has been caught up in the Jack Abramoff probe...
...right: Gays should be exterminated.” And in February 1981, MIT fraternity Pi Lambda Phi organized a joke march through Harvard Square calling for the reinstatement of capital punishment for gay people. The march left a trail of severed lambs’ heads attached to leaflets with fake quotations, including one attributed to University President Derek C. Bok, which read, “Homosexuals at Harvard? It’s just not preppy.”Benjamin H. Schatz ’81, who was then president of the GSA, recalls a very intimidating atmosphere...
...popular - Instapundit.com, says Moulitsas has managed to combine activism and entrepreneurialism in a recipe the bloggers respond to, though not always positively. "Those pictures of the Mercedes with the Kos license plates weren?t real, but people had a lot of fun with them," he says of a fake photo that circulated on the net for awhile. Reynolds points to Moulitsas? lesser-known network of baseball blogs as proof that the liberal firebrand is also a red-hot marketer. "The sports blogs underscore the fact that he is an entrepreneur," says Reynolds. "An entrepreneur gets ahead by figuring out what...