Fair and balanced.
It's a great Hank Williams song. My favorite version is by the Notting Hillbillies, but that's because Mark Knopfler was in the Notting Hillbillies. He plays here with Tom Jones on the vocal, and that pairing works wonderfully, too.
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Oh, she makes me laugh. I take that description as a badge of honor.
I would not ordinarily connect those two things either. But Reluctant Scribe did, to very good effect (as friend Bookworm noticed). Then Julie went and quoted from Kevin Knight and his astronaut analogy, which also fits. [...] 
Gerard at American Digest brought this tweet to my attention, and it strikes home as much for its perceptive analysis as for its pith. 
"Sometimes you have to play through the ugly to get to where you want to be."
Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno (recommended)
That Mark Steyn. He's got a million of 'em.
Would somebody please tell Al Gore and his ilk that they've already had their fifteen minutes of fame? 
RAF police on the Helmand beat. 
Kudos to the S.P.E.B.Q.S.A., but I'm going to bracket "Lida Rose" and the typical barbershop standards, because here's something else to sing about, in the "How Can I Keep From Singing?" and "Band of Angels" sense:
Karl Keating explains the important difference between "infallible" and "inerrant."
Toby Harnden reads the recent press releases from the White House, and finds the Nobel Peace Prize shoehorned into most of them. [...] 
Maybe "anthropogenic global warming" is playing on the lawn together with those elephants Forgarty sings about.
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Coincidence? 
Doug Hoffman (
Even the comments are interesting. 
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