The Spag Report

Greatest Bass Players

NME lists their readers choice for the best bass players of all time.  I can't argue with the list except that the great Bootsy Collins is notoriously absent.

Of Course They Are Buying Votes

Nevermind that the "stimulus" is bad economic policy thrusting the nation farther into debt.  It serves a useful purpose by helping Democrats buy votes.  It's all about winning at all costs, and explains why Democrats are such avid believers in big government.  It is a means to an end.

From Politico:

"Though some parts of the stimulus, such as extending health and unemployment benefits, were clearly justified, the whole program never sought to address the roughly $800 billion annual imbalance between American consumption and production.

Instead, we have witnessed a grab bag of political handouts — Chicago machine politics on a grand scale — designed to placate key Democratic constituencies. Most have gone to what my old teacher Michael Harrington described as “the social-industrial complex” consisting of the education industry, social service providers and the various government bureaucracies."

It was never about sound economic policy, it was about politics. Consequences be damned.

Black Eye

HBO premiers "Assault in the Ring" tomorrow night, a documentary about the real criminal assault that took place in the boxing ring between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto in 1983, when Resto removed a substantial amount of padding in his gloves to cause greater damage to the undefeated Collins.

Collins suffered permanent damage and never fought again, tumbling into a spiral of substance abuse before dying a year later in a car crash while under the influence.

More from ESB.

You Mean The Media Did That?

RCP analyzes Obama's poll numbers:

"The political media played a big role in misinforming the American public of their purported lofty view of this president. Therefore, we are responsible for the supposed shock at Obama's average standing."

The same author notes in a separate article that the plummet in Obama's poll numbers is more precipitous than his predecessor.