Sunday afternoon vinyl

Digging through the stacks again, I came across Rosie, by Fairport Convention. This was their ninth album; former members Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny and Linda Peters contributed but were not credited as part of the band. I’m not as negative about it as AllMusic’s reviewer; it’s got some bouncy stuff, but nothing particularly spectacular. Nonetheless, …

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Rev Dobson? Speak up, won’tcha?

Via Rude Pundit, a very germane question from Bill Berkowitz, who writes Conservative Watch for Working for Change. Why have the ‘traditional family values’ folks erected a wall of silence around the Gannon scandal? They were livid over SpongeBob Square Pants’ participation in a video advocating tolerance, and fuming about Buster the Bunny’s visit to …

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