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Archive for February 9th, 2008

09 Feb

UPDATE: California Disgrace — The Sacramento Bee weighs in

Editorial: ‘Double bubble’ trouble L.A. mess shows need for ballot redesign
…The scale of disenfranchisement is huge – 94,500 of 189,000 decline-to-state votes. That’s half of the nonpartisan ballots. By comparison, in the infamous Florida “butterfly ballot” debacle in the 2000 presidential election, 19,120 Palm Beach County ballots went uncounted because of the bad ballot design.
Worse, [...]

09 Feb

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Alan Lomax Field Recordings & Moby

Natural Blues
Moby
featuring Alan Lomax Field Recordings
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oh lordy, trouble so hard
oh lordy, trouble so hard,
don’t nobody know my troubles but God
don’t nobody know my troubles but God
went down the hill, the other day
my soul got happy and stayed all day
oh lordy…