11 August 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 11 Aug 2008 McCain's "3 a.m." moment regarding Georgia puts him in line with Bush on American exceptionalism. Op: Georgia fights for its survival as Russia takes advantage of Western indecision. Georgia, Russia embrace on Olympic podium, face off on Wednesday in beach volleyball. "There's almost the feeling of the 'Anticlimactic Games.'" How will we remember the Olympics? Au revoir democracy, bonjour ancien regime. Sarkozy's privatization of power evident in commoditization of national symbols. Weekend losses: Bernie Mac (NSFW video), Isaac Hayes (mp3: "Walk on By"). The historigraphical reasons why we'll never have a comprehensive history of pop music. Link bio of Nell James, prog prodigy, and 2006 ToB judge. Video: Documentary about the Smiths' 1986 third album, The Queen is Dead. Related: Andrew Womack on the other nine top albums of 1986. It pains me to see so many people being pseudo-intellectual in the wrong way. You have failed to keep pace with the current code of intellectual one-upsmanship. Kafka's stash of explicit pornography is discovered, Ph.D. students around the world revise their theses. Video: Thank you, slaves.
