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I Saw That Too

Copy-Paste: I'm no musicologist, but Miranda Lambert's new single "Kerosene" sounds heavily influenced by Steve Earle's "Feel Alright". Great artists steal from others, as the saying goes. Both songs are excellent, though Lambert is certainly more polished, if you're not into that sort of thing.

It was far down in the article, but it's pretty shoddy reporting (via TPMcafe):

Elizabeth Bumiller serves up some crummy writing, making it sound like both Democrats and Republicans oppose targets on oil import reductions. But one side is skeptical that Bush has ~~flip-flopped~~ shifted tactics, while the other side seems to think that soydiesel is a completely wacky idea dreamed up by hippies in Eugene and therefore unworkable. That makes for two very distinct forms of opposition, and the Times deals with that here very poorly. I wonder what the ombudsperson has to say?

Again, this isn't a high crime against reporting, because it's not in the headline or first paragraph. And it doesn't matter either way, because the Energy Secretary has already called "psyche!" on the President's statement. But we deserve better.

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