Council Submissions June 23, 2010
The Watcher on Jun 23 2010 at 8:00 am | Filed under: Nominations
The six-o’clock alarm would never ring
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
I wouldn’t have minded sleeping later today. Would you? Anyway here are this week’s Watcher’s Council nominations.
Council Submissions
- Joshuapundit - Barack Obama’s Oval Office Speech – The Fiction Cracks
- The Colossus of Rhodey – I wonder if the folks at Newsweek really wonder why their readership is dwindling
- The Glittering Eye - No, We’re Still Paying
- Snapped Shot - Efficiency: Man Denied Doctor Appointment… Because He’s Dead
- Rhymes with Right – When Teachers Become Self-Absorbed
- Right Truth – Banning Sharia Law
- Bookworm Room - Israel hasn’t changed; the world has
- The Provocateur – Man Caused Disaster
Non-Council Submissions
- LATMA – The Three Terrors submitted by JoshuaPundit
- The Chronicle of Higher Education – In Praise of Tough Criticism submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Jay Tea/Wizbang - The Scent Of Fear submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Six Meat Buffet - Why Has The Federal Government Declared War On The States? submitted by Snapped Shot
- Joanne Jacobs - The right way to assess teachers submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Las Vegas Review Journal/ WAYNE ALLYN ROOT - Obama’s agenda: Overwhelm the system submitted by Right Truth
- Pajamas Media/Zombie – Radicals, Islamists and Longshoremen blockade Israeli ship in Oakland submitted by Bookworm Room
- National Affairs - Crisis Economics submitted by The Provocateur
- The Counterterrorism Blog - OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE – An Open Discussion submitted by The Watcher
- Not PC - The schadenfreude of the postmodern president submitted by The Watcher
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[...] Last week, I featured the Monkees’ “Daydream Believer.” “Daydream Believer” was written by John Stewart. Stewart had been a member of the Kingston Trio (though he joined late, well after Tom Dooley, which was based on true story), but later had a hit with Gold. As with some other songs on his comeback album, “Gold” was backed by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. So too was “Midnight Wind.” “Midnight Wind” is like Billy Joel’s “Only the good die young,” but without the snarkiness. You Beauty Queens come on so clean But you’re, you’re missing all the fun [...]
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