Congrats to Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani for winning the mirror ball trophy on Dancing With the Stars. Melissa is a terrific dancer -- I thought she should have won in 2009. This season, I only watched the last two shows since I boycotted DWTS due to Bristol Palin being on again, but I've watched Melissa dance enough over the years to believe she deserved it.

Also fun on last night's show: the Gangnam Style number . Psy is up to 831 million views of Gangnam Style today. More power to him. [More...]

The Powerball has grown to $500 million.

Apple begins sales of its new iMacs on Friday. They are pretty impressive looking.

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced his latest amendment to to the e-mail privacy bill which would require a search warrant to access the content of stored e-mails, regardless of age. [More...]

The 11 Show, starring me, today at 11. Topics for today: the austerity bomb and the Lessons of 1937, the Demography of Ideological Realignment, the new Right Wing litigants and, as they say, much much more. How to Listen

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The Rolling Stones are about to take the stage in London for their first concert on their 50th Anniversary tour. Joining them for this performance: Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Jeff Beck and Mary K. Blige.

The band is live-tweeting the show, with pictures. Also check out #StonesO2

Update: Here's some photos I grabbed off of twitter and from DirtyRock on FB. Here's the set list.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Today's picks (2 units unless otherwise indicated): Georgia Tech +14½ over Georgia, Mississippi State +1½ over Mississippi, Virginia +10 over Virginia Tech, Stanford -2 over UCLA, Tulsa -5 over SMU, Oklahoma State +7 over Oklahoma, Vanderbilt -12 over Wake Forest, South Carolina +4 over Clemson, Oregon -10 over Oregon State (7 units), Pittsburgh -2 over Rutgers, Texas Tech +3 over Baylor, Penn State -3 over Wisconsin, Ohio State -3½ over Michigan (3 units), Connecticut +12 over Louisville, USC +6 over Notre Dame (3 units), San Jose State (+5) over La Tech (3 units.)

In the only game that matters, Florida (+7) over FSU. Go Gators!

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Bonus Friday college football picks (all picks 2 units):

Arizona -3 over Arizona State, Cincinnati -14 over South Florida, Washington State +14 over Washington, Nebraska -15 over Iowa, LSU -12½ over Arkansas, Utah -23 over Colorado, Iowa State +1½ over West Virginia, Ohio +9½ over Kent State, and Syracuse -8 over Temple.

For kdog:

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Of all the Thanksgiving Day traditions, my favorite is still the one that comes at noon, when KBCO in Boulder (and other stations around the country) play the 23 minute version of Arlo Guthrie singing "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967. While everyone else is cooking turkey, the TL kid and I are eating bacon and eggs and listening with the sound turned up loud, smiling as if it's the first time we've ever heard it. If your local station isn't playing it, you can stream it live (noon MT) here.

Or, you can pick your own time and listen, courtesy of KDKP in Arizona. But you'll miss that special feeling that comes with knowing thousands of others around the country are listening at the same time and sharing the tradition. How to describe it? It's like our nation has a liberal anthem, but only for one day each year, so you don't want to miss it when it comes around.

Two other songs I like listening to on Thanksgiving: [More...]

President Obama is going to pardon the turkey with the most Facebook friends.

India today executed Ajmal Kasab by hanging. Kasab, 25, was the sole surviving terrorist carrying out the November, 2008 Mumbai attacks. More here. His defense team welcomed the speedy execution.

In Chicago, David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana have yet to be sentenced. Rana, acquitted of participating in the Mumbai attacks but convicted of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist conspiracy to maim and murder people in Denmark, and providing material support to the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT). is set for sentencing on December 4. He faces 30 years.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Getting busy now (no radio obviously). But here is an excellent post from Ed Kilgore on the The Phony War in the GOP over its future:

Yes, years from now conservatives will sit around campfires and sing songs about the legendary internecine battles of late 2012, when father fought son and brother fought brother across a chasm of controversy as to whether 98% or 99% of abortions should be banned; whether undocumented workers should be branded and utilized as “guest workers,” loaded onto cattle cars and shipped home, or simply immiserated; whether the New Deal/Great Society programs should be abolished in order to cut upper-income taxes or abolished in order to boost Pentagon spending. There’s also a vicious, take-no-prisons fight over how quickly to return the role of the federal government in the economy to its pre-1930s role as handmaiden to industry. Blood will flow in the streets as Republicans battle over how to deal with health care after Obamacare is repealed and 50 million or people lose health insurance. Tax credits and risk pools or just “personal responsibility?”

Heh, indeed. Open Thread.

I'm off to see Bruce Springsteen at the Pepsi Center -- tickets courtesy of Big Tent Democrat -- Thanks, BTD!

Update: Awesome seats, awesome concert. Reviews (with setlist) and pictures here and here.

Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

The 11 Show, starring me, today at 11. More on the Emerging Democratic Majority, including Is Rush Limbaugh's country gone?, The good old economics days of the 1950s, Democrats are losers sez Douthat and Krugman's response. How to Listen Your options to listen LIVE:

• Click on the embedded Flash player below
• Go to netrootsradio.com and click on the embedded player or direct link there
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• iPad and iPhone users can download the SHOUTCast Radio app for your mobile device and search for "Netroots Radio"
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Open Thread.

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