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Music Review: “Wishing Well” by Screaming Females

by ShadWeiland Posted on February 20, 2015

Mother Jones

TRACK 3

“Wishing Well”

From Screaming Females’ Rose Mountain

DON GIOVANNI

Liner notes: Known for pummeling punk riffs and over-the-top vocals, frontwoman Marissa Paternoster embellishes a surprisingly pretty melody with surf guitar and actual singing.

Behind the music: Fans of Paternoster’s gentler side can find more of it by listening to her solo project, Noun.

Check it out if you like: Ex Hex, Sleater-Kinney, or Julie Ruin.

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One More Time: No, the Fort Lee Lane Closures Were Not Part of a Traffic Study

by ShadWeiland Posted on February 4, 2014

Mother Jones

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From Chris Christie’s radio interview about Bridgegate yesterday:

You still don’t know at this point whether there was a traffic study?

Well, what I’m saying, Eric, did this start as a traffic study that morphed into some political shenanigans, or did it start as political shenanigans that became a traffic study?

Oh come on. If this started as a legitimate traffic study, there would be two pieces of routine evidence for it. First, there would be some kind of planning document from the Port Authority engineering department. Second, there would be some kind of report on the results of the study. This is the absolute bare minimum that would accompany a genuine traffic study, especially one that involved a major lane closure.

If either of these documents exists, Christie would have produced it long ago. He hasn’t, and it’s simply not plausible for him to continue pretending that we don’t know if there was a real traffic study that prompted this affair. There wasn’t.

POSTSCRIPT: Robert Durando, general manager of the George Washington Bridge, has testified that data was collected during the days when the Fort Lee access lanes were closed. This is meaningless. It was tolls data, which is collected routinely every day. The fact that this is the only data that was collected is evidence against the the notion that there was a real traffic study being conducted, not evidence for it.

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