The Grand Inquisitor

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10 Essential Women Rawkers

As many of you know The Grand Inquisitor used to be a rocker girl in a previous, more fun life. This makes her think she is some kind of expert on girls who rock and so she is offering up this little list for your consideration. Note: the list does not contain hip-hop artists because I am not enough of a fan to do a proper list. I also excluded soul and dance music and stuck to the girls who like it harder because that is what The Grand Inquisitor knows and loves. However, here are ten rocker babes that you should have in your music collection. This isn’t exhaustive and is in no particular order. Continue reading

Crasstalk Fact Finding Mission: Occupy Wall Street – Updated

A special thanks to the fact finding team members Achille’s and Rowen for helping get this together.

If you had asked the thousands of students, transit workers, teachers, nurses, unemployed, children, and retirees who showed up at Foley Square Wednesday afternoon about why they were there, you would have gotten thousands of different responses. But beyond the continuing debate regarding what the movement’s specific goals and demands are, the overwhelming sense in the air was that something historical was taking form, and these people had come to be a part of it.

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This Week in Crazy

Well gang, it has been a great week if you enjoy batshit insanity, and you all know I do. Bonus points: the anxiety over the global economy and the upcoming presidential elections is probably going to really knock a few more screws loose in those folks who are already a little inclined to go towards the odd side. I am predicting that the rest of the year is going to be a fertile season for craziness, so pull up a chair and say your prayers to Raptor Jesus, it’s going to get pretty interesting. Here’s a little dose of this week’s craziness that should probably make you feel (relatively) sane.

Let’s start with this weeks most obvious source of crazy, The Republican Presidential field. Continue reading