Wikidump: This is a list of songs about hair

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This is a list of songs about hair.

“Almost Cut My Hair” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ;”Bangs” – They Might Be Giants; “Bald” – The Darkness; “Cut My Hair” – The Who ; “Cut Your Hair” – Pavement ;”Devil’s Haircut” – Beck ; “Devilock” – The Misfits ; “Five Colours In Her Hair – McFly ; “Fixing Her Hair” – Ani Difranco ; “Get a Haircut” – George Thorogood ;

“Hair” – Hair (musical) ; “Hair”-The Early November ; “Hair” – PJ Harvey ; “Haircut” – Kevin Devine ; “Haircut Economics” – Hot Hot Heat ; “I’m So Bald” – Mr. Mason ; “I Am Not My Hair” – India.Arie ; “I Think I’m Going Bald” – Rush ; “I Won’t Cut My Hair”- D-A-D ; “Le Frisur (entire album)” – Die Ärzte ; “Lend Me Your Comb” – The Beatles ; “Long-Haired Child” – Devendra Banhart ; “Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods)” – DesaparecidosThe Waifs ; “Pull My Hair” – Bright Eyes ; “Pull My Hair” – Ying Yang Twins ; “Sampson” – Regina Spektor ; “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie ; “Screaming Infidelities”- Dashboard Confessional ;

“The girl I love she got long wavy black hair” – Led Zeppelin ; “Torra Fy Ngwallt N Hir” – Super Furry Animals ; “Who Found Who’s Hair in Who’s Bed? – Owen ; “You’re Not You” – The Good Life ; “Suicide Blonde” by INXS ; “Short Haired Woman – Lightning Hopkins ; “Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine – Johnny Cash and The Carter Family ; “He Took A White Rose from Her Hair – The Carter Family ; “Long Blonde Hair – The Meteors ; “Ain’t Got No Hair – Professor Longhair ; “Black Is the Color Of My True Love’s Hair – Nina Simone ; “Dark Hair’d Rider – Heavy Trash

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This is one of my favorite recent entries from the Wikidump, “The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects.” According to the Wikipedia, “This page has been deleted, and should not be recreated without a good reason.” Has the Wikipedia gotten all stuff shirt on us or something? Let’s hope not. There sure are a lot of songs about hair, huh? Who was willing to spend the time to figure all of this out? By the way, they also took out an entry on LisaNova for some reason.

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Monday Mornning S and M

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In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have been very aggressive in trying to move to sustainable energy. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts. I think there is a lot to be learned from countries that have created more egalitarian societies than has the United States of America.

Senator Bernie Sanders, on Democracy Now

You know, my campaign office, since the very beginning, looked like the UN. We had everybody in the room, people of all faiths, all cultures, all colors, working together behind a progressive agenda to challenge this Iraq policy, to raise the issue about the 47 million uninsured, to talk about fair working conditions and middle class economics, to talk about the right to organize in labor unions, clean renewable energy, behind a progressive agenda.

Representative Keith Ellison, on Democracy Now

Amy Goodman has a way of reminding me of things. Last week she noted that there were several firsts in the midterm elections. There will be a woman in charge of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi is now the most powerful women ever elected in the United States. She will be third in line, so once we get those impeachment hearings out of the way… Try to picture Bush and Cheney’s mug shot next to Delay’s.

Anyway, we also voted our first Socialist into the Senate, Senator Bernie Sanders, and our first Muslim into the House, Representative Keith Ellison. Americans too often vilify Socialists and Muslims, so it’s a remarkable event.

It’s strange to think that so many people have opposed the kinds of things people like Pelosi, Ellison, Sanders, and even Goodman want: health care for everyone, strong labor laws, affordable college educations.

Delay and his ilk offered little of anything, yet people voted them in again and again for a dozen years. I am not sure if that is sadism or masochism.

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“The goats and father are well—especially the goats.”

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The Civil War was the first “modern war.” Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided nation during a period of both technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool. As a result Lincoln had to learn for himself how to use the power of electronic messages. Without precedent to guide him, Lincoln developed his own model of electronic communications — an approach that echoes today in our use of email.

Tom Wheeler, from Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails

I found this story (and the image) on Lifehacker the other day and since it is an Illinois kind of story, I had to include it here. The subject line quote is from a note sent by Lincoln to Mary Todd on April 28, 1864. Mrs. Lincoln and Tad were in New York and Tad was concerned about his pets.

An enterprising writer named Chirag Mehta has created Tag Clouds of over 300 historical documents written by presidents, called the US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud. It includes Lincoln’s first two inaugural addresses as well as The Emancipation Proclamation. There’s more on the history of the telegraph here, too.

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