Things what make my eyes cross in pain: “That’s what it sounded like to me,” said Sen. Evan Bayh (D., Ind.), when asked Monday if the Medicare “buy-in” proposal was dropped. “To use the old cliche, the general consensus was that we shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the good.” [via Wall St. Journal] [...]

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Here is this week’s In Contempt cartoon. I switched out the pickups and the tuners, installed a Bigsby tremelo for greater sustain, and filed down the nut. Now it plays like a dream, tone for days and the leads just SCREAM!

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The Planned Parenthood Action Center has a form letter you can send to the White House to encourage President Obama to defend women’s reproductive rights as the Senate debates health care reform. There’s pre-written stuff, but I have heard from activists in various fields that more attention/weight is given to original writing. Maybe that’s a [...]

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I have been waiting for this shoe to drop: Under the agreement, anti-abortion Democrats will be permitted to offer an amendment on the House floor to the health-care overhaul bill. The amendment would prohibit a new government-run insurance plan created by the health-care bill from offering to cover abortion services, congressional sources said. It would [...]

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A new cartoon has appeared on In Contempt. How it got there, I don’t know. But it’s kinda cute. I think I’ll keep it around. At least until it bores me, then I’ll trade it in for an upgrade. Speaking of which, I put a hundred smackers down on a guitar on Monday; after two [...]

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