authenticity

Okay, I want to subscribe to the RSS feed for No Depression, but when I add it to my feed reader, the feed I get is Lift Off News.  What the [bleep]?  I am virus free, supposedly.  Is it me?  Is it not working?  What?

Despite lofty prospects, John Haris and Jim Vandehei argue that this presidential election has been pretty conventional:

Someday someone is going to write a brilliant book about the commonalities of rap and country music–the stress on authenticity, the violence, the hypermasculinity, ect.–and I will read it and I will say “Oh, so that’s what’s going on.”

The always cynical Jeff Woods actually sees authenticity in the political persona of Jeff Woods:

Perhaps I oversold this easy-to-handle pastry in a previous post on Greek greens pie since both of my readers requested the recipe.

Now, I don’t know him personally, but I’d guess Edward Gilbreath is an all around nice guy.

The Financial Times, that bastion of free market communists in Europe, thinks Barack Obama ought to be the next President:

When “starving” is used by your kids at snack time.  When “poor” describes someone who lives in 1500 square feet of suburban shelter.  When your mom says she’s ready to get “jiggy with it.” This is semantic stretch - the overuse and/or misappropriation of a word to the point that it loses its original meaning - and sometimes all its meaning.