Evening Posts

I am proud to announce that after a long hiatus (of sorts) the Madison Sandinista will continue to be updated on a hopefully bi-daily basis. After finding employment at a company requiring long hours indoors, I had not carved time to blog into my schedule. Finally, I am again ready to let loose my opinions concerning politics and culture upon my desperate mass of readers. The Black Keys are here to re-introduce the blog and set the mood with a track from their new album which meets all the highest standards of quality.

Anything to make Madison more like Amsterdam (I lived in the Netherlands before you come to any other conculsions) is fine by me. Who’s for canals, could we get stimulus funds for that?

I hate Ohio State. Jim Tressel is a gentleman though. (From Jon Chait, who hates Ohio State maybe more than anyone.)

In his drive for the GOP Presidential nomination, Tim Pawlenty has left the state of Minnesota out to dry.

I picked that story up from my local paper which I perused after reading a story about my mom’s campaign for County Attorney. Go mom!

Michele Bachmann’s writers are like those of Family Guy, they randomly pull shit out of a hat (fascist dictatorships replace obscure pop culture) and just throw it willy-nilly toward their empty minded fans.

Okay this may come off as slanted after the previous bullet point, no it will come off as slanted. But this gag by Franken on the Senate floor is legitimately funny. “There we see an apple core, there’s a fish head… skeleton, a banana. You don’t want those on the ice! You just don’t want that. That’s bad.” This made me think, what if Bill Murray ran for office and won.

Ezra Klein reveals the not so sacred history of the filibuster. You will hate Aaron Burr even more.

There was a terrorist attack in Florida (via Yglesias).

I’m not Lady Gaga’s biggest fan musically speaking, but after reading this interview she comes off as very very sharp.

Finally, in Madison we have James Brown’s drummer Mr. Stubblefield. See him on Mondays at the Frequency. The Lower East Side has Fela Kuti’s drummer. Point, Madison. A good blurb and a great photo of the guy anyway. Wikipedia ‘Fela Kuti’ to learn more about the legend, or listen to this:

Before I can find a more original sign off, I’ll steal from Murrow: Good night, and good luck.