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Hello, yes.

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Knee deep in other matters, my friend. That's about all I can tell you. Thanks. Hope the ankle trouble gets better. (click!) Oh, hi. Just in the midst of blowing someone off... I mean, ending a phone call somewhat abruptly. Just been one of those weeks. Can't find time to do anything, including this blog. Shoo-wee. Busy, busy, busy. What other meaningless chatter can I share? Big Green news: Matt and I are still mixing cousin Rick's new album. Mixed another song last night. These will be finished versions of some of the numbers we featured on the podcast over the last year. (Hey, collect them all!) We've done about half a dozen as of this week. So it goes. Recorded another episode of THIS IS BIG GREEN's now near-monthly feature, Mr. Ned, a politically charged and wholly insensitive dramatization of the adventures of Willard "Mitt" Romney's dressage horse, on the model of 60s sit-com "Mr. Ed" - everything from bad scripts to low product...

Bite back the bad news.

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I'm not going to say much about politics this week. Just bracketed with work, school, more work, etc. A few quick comments and I'm out - sorry for the lameness. Watched the Biden / Ryan matchup. My thought about presidential and vice presidential debates is that you tend to feel the person you agree with was the winner. Only makes sense, right? This was a much easier contest to watch than the last one, I must say, but it retained one of the central themes of the presidential debate: Romney/Ryan does not want to talk specifics about anything, and are now in full flight from their own positions. The purported "numbers guy" seems very reluctant to use any when it comes to talking about their tax plan. They are planning to cut marginal tax rates to 20% across the board, while increasing military spending something like a trillion dollars or more above current spending levels. Ryan was claiming that this can be balanced by closing loopholes on upper income earners. Hor...