Jon Bon Jovi on Larry King Live singing an acoustic version of Who Says You Can't Go Home. I made the video myself and put it on You Tube.

As I've probably said before, I think he has the best face in music. The other night I didn't think anything would distract me from the incessant Ramsey coverage and as I was channel surfing, I came across his hour long appearance on LKL. I watched the whole thing.

I've barely been here since Wednesday, when news broke of John Mark Karr's arrest in the Jonbenet Ramsey murder case. I am the first to agree there are far more important and consequential events going on in the world. I sympathize with everyone who is frustrated and tired of the coverage.

I've been a television legal analyst for the last decade. I've commented on every development in the Ramsey case since the week Jonbenet was killed, nine and a half years ago. In other words, I'm part of the obsessive media coverage.

And therein lies a dilemma. Should I not write about things I'm interested in because readers don't share that interest?

Arianna has a good take on the obsessive news coverage of the Jonbenet Ramsey case:

the only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld. When you've basically screwed up the world, and you're headed into a heated anti-incumbent election, it must be a gift from heaven to have a story that, essentially, shuts down the delivery of news.

Plus, we get to see -- again, and again, and again -- that footage of a heavily made-up adorable little girl lasciviously prancing around. Because it's news, right?

Give me a ticket for an airplane,
Ain't got time to take a fast train.....

The Boxtops singing The Letter, 1967.

Note: Don't click the arrow in the picture, the video won't play. Click here instead.

For Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, alleged Mexican drug kingpin arrested today and the 130 arrested yesterday by the DEA:

The Wallflowers and Jordan Zevon (son of Warren) performing Lawyers, Guns and Money" on David Letterman.

Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and a cameraman from New Zealand were ambushed and kidnapped in Gaza today.

Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox. "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.....

The men and their bodyguard were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with masked gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, the Fox employee said. The gunmen took the two reporters from the sports utility vehicle, which was marked "TV," and drove away, he said.

The pattern has been to release those kidnapped unharmed.

For Ned Lamont and the voters of Connecticut tonight, here's a very spirited and happy "Give Them What They Want" performed by Michael Stipe of REM and Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs (who looks goregeous) at the 1993 MTV Inaugural Ball for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Turn the volume way up on your speakers so you get the full effect.

Last night it took me six hours to go from VHS to You Tube, tonight it only took me an hour. (There's a lot of steps, from processing to dubbing to finalizing and then to converting, editing and uploading.) I haven't figured out how to enhance the sound, so you will have to turn the volume way up on your computers, but it's a great song, it's worth it.

It's primary day. In Connecticut, in Colorado and elsewhere. If you're registered to vote, you have the power. Please use it.

We've had high hopes before. Let's hope democracy prevails today. Here's a video I found on a VHS tape stashed in my closet, of the 1993 MTV Inaugural Ball for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. This segment is Don Henley performing Leonard Cohen's "Democracy." Not being a video maestro, it took me almost 6 hours tonight to convert the tape to a format my computer would recognize and then that You Tube would accept. You will likely have to turn your volume up, it's best played loud. I hope you like it. If you do, give it a rating.

Good luck, Ned Lamont. If the voters of Connecticut turn out in force, you should be the state's next Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. And that's quite a feat.

This is for the LA Times article today on the atrocities in Vietnam...for the 4,000 U.S. troops re-deployed today to Baghdad to fight the civil war there...for the three soldiers killed in Iraq today and for the citizens of Connecticut who are about to choose between Joe Lieberman who opposes a timetable for bringing our troops home and Ned Lamont who wants an end to the Iraq War now. Too bad we didn't learn then about "fighting a losing war on foreign shores."

From Poison in the late 80's, Give Me Something to Believe In. "I wish to G-d I didn't know now things I didn't know then....

Only, we knew it then and we know it now. At some point, you think we'd learn.

(National Lawyers Guild Photo)

A federal judge in San Francisco has jailed blogger-journalist Josh Wolf, age 24, for refusing to turn over videotapes he took at an anti-capitalist protest last year and to testify before the grand jury.

The protest, tied to a Group of 8 meeting of world economic leaders in Scotland, ended in a clash between demonstrators and the San Francisco police, with one officer sustaining a fractured skull. A smoke bomb or a firework was also put under a police car, and investigators are looking into whether arson was attempted on a government-financed vehicle.

....Mr. Wolf, who posted some of the edited video on his Web site, and sold some of it to local television stations, met with investigators, who wanted to see the raw video. But Mr. Wolf refused to hand over the tapes, arguing that he had the right as a journalist to shield his sources.

A portion of the video is posted here. The San Francisco Chronicle has a more detailed article here. Josh Wolf's mom is posting on his blog .

For those of you sweltering in the East, here's Martha and the Vandellas and Heat Wave:

Below the fold is the Who performing "Heat Wave" in Germany in the 60's.

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Crooks and Liars has the video of David Letterman's spoof last night on the Hardball diatribe of the she-pundit with long blond hair in which she postulates that Bill Clinton has latent homosexual tendencies.

In case you're not familiar with the story behind it, Media Matters has the details.