David Adler

In case you missed the last one… Nigeria 70, Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat Highlife & Afro-Funk (Strut) Becca Stevens, Tea Bye Sea (ind.) G. Calvin Weston, Nassira (Amulet) Andrew Raffo Dewar, Six Lines of Transformation (Porter) E.S.T., Leucocyte (EmArcy) Dred Scott Trio, Live at the Rockwood Music Hall (ind.)

In recent days, local Republican parties have distributed materials depicting Obama next to watermelon and fried chicken; suggesting that Obama should be waterboarded; and asserting, against a facial close-up that could easily be taken for Obama, “America must look evil in the eye and never flinch.” And John McCain feels he is owed an apology from John Lewis.

All part of the Big Lie, it seems. ACORN is acting responsibly — it is weeding out bogus voter registrations. It is not engaging in voter fraud. And yet mad dogs at McCain-Palin rallies are calling ACORN “the scum of the earth.” For registering voters.

With my friend Kevin “Sugar” Shand providing the beats…

[Click to enlarge photo.] Barack Obama happened to be in Philadelphia for a series of rallies on the very day I was scheduled to canvass. So I spent my Saturday morning as part of a big, enthralled crowd and heard him speak in the flesh. (I caught the entire thing on video but the file’s too long for YouTube, so

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I’m heading back to Philly in a few hours, to catch Anthony Braxton’s two shows and to canvass for Obama in the white working-class area of Tacony, right near my cruddy storage space. A strange part of town. The owner of the storage warehouse has McCain stickers plastered all over his office. So this should be interesting. At least the

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Not unlike a wife beater, John McCain engages in despicable behavior and apologizes the next day. He feels awful, just awful about it. He has a proven track record, by his own admission, of doing the wrong thing, time and again. When McCain loses this election we’ll probably hear him go through this ritual repentance once again. For anyone who

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