I liked Jim Nabors when I was a kid -- watched him on The Andy Griffith Show, and then when he spun off into the equally popular Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Then one day we got to hear him sing, and whoa. Bumpkin face, opera voice.

Not that I'd thought much about him in the ensuing decades. He'd kinda dropped off my radar. Well, that certainly ( Read more... )

Some by people we know and love:

• Heather Dale has made her and Ben's new album Perpetual Gift free for download, but consider kicking in for it, won't you?
• Amy McNally's Hazardous Fiddle is available for download at CD Baby.
• Three Weird Sisters have just released Third Thyme's The Charm. Short review: GET IT GET IT GET IT. Superb.
• I clean forgot that ( Read more... )

All 1.3 million square feet of it. For more information, visit http://www.aidsquilt.org/.

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Well, okay, one Scottish cardinal. Go get 'em, Captain Jack Harkness!

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Phenomenal.

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Finally.

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Some people are just twisted:Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has some words of advice for parents of possibly LGBT children: Smack them around. Beat the gay out of them. Or, in his precise words, "Give [him] a good punch!"
I followed the link in the dKos story, and listened to the audio of ( Read more... )

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Inevitable, inexorable, the right thing to do.

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Major victory for non-traditional marriage. There's a stay (pending appeals), so same-sex marriage does not immediately resume. The whole thing is almost certainly going to the SCOTUS.

Thoughts?

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