Listening Post: Bonus Edition

Hearing Garbage this morning for the first time in a while sent me looking for more of their videos. During my little reminiscence-fest, I came across a song I hadn't heard in years -- and a video for it that I didn't even know existed.

This is a crystal clear copy of one of my favorite Garbage songs -- a song that just slices through you like a scalpel.

Here's You Look So Fine.

Quote of the Week (Honorable Mention)

"No. No. Everything we did was -- you know, it had legal -- legal opinions behind it. Look, you're sitting there, you've captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He's the guy that ordered the September the 11th attacks. And we want to know what he knows in order to protect the United States of America. And I got legal opinions that said whatever we're going to do is legal. And my job is to protect you, Larry. And I've given it my all. I've given it my all."

-- George W. Bush, on Larry King Live last night, basically admitting that he got around "torturing" prisoners by having his lawyers play a clever game of Semantic Scrabble with the definition of the word

(h/t Cesca)

I Have No Idea What You're Talking About, So Here's an Idiot with Some Pancakes on Its Head

Everybody happier now?

From artist Dan Lacey, via Gawker.

Clock In, Pass Out

Things to to in 2009:

Move to Peru.

Remember never to fly out of Peru.

Reuters: You Can't Fire Me, I'm Drunk: Peruvian Judge Rules Employees Can't Be Fired for Drinking on the Job/1.14.09

Listening Post

"I am lost, so I am cruel -- but I'd be love and sweetness if I had you."

-- Garbage, Milk

iQuit

Maybe without the benefit of Jobs's technological witchcraft, Apple will be forced to stop churning out new, better versions of the crap I just bought from them.

The Washington Post: Steve Jobs Stepping Down as CEO of Apple, Taking Extended Medical Leave/1.14.09

(And no, of course I'm not making fun of Steve Jobs's health problems. If I tried to do that, my MacBook would automatically meltdown.)

The Final Frontier

"From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

Ricardo Montalban, 1920-2009