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Album review: Time Stays, We Go – The Veils

TIME STAYS, WE GO The Veils (Universal) Kiwi-raised indie oddball Finn Andrews returned to the LA studio that gave birth to The Veils’ 2006 hit album Nux Vomica for the band’s fourth full-lengther and the result is wonderfully weird. Make no mistake, there’s very litte mainstream top-10 hit material here but Andrews’ unstoppable song-writing (he claims to write every day and had to pare back hundreds of tracks to find these 10) allows for him to hit the off-beat from a number of different directions – mariachi horns, heavy reverbed guitars, 17th century English poets and a fairytale song about birds all feature.

A Brief History of Birth Control

1550 B.C.An Egyptian manuscript called the Ebers Papyrus directs women on how to mix dates, acacia and honey into a paste, smear it over wool and use it as a pessary to prevent conception 1700sCasanova’s memoirs detail his experiments in birth control, from sheep-bladder condoms to the use of half a lemon as a makeshift cervical cap 1839Charles Goodyear invents the technology to vulcanize rubber and puts it to use manufacturing rubber condoms, intrauterine devices, douching syringes and “womb veils” 1873Congress passes an antiobscenity law that deems birth control info obscene and outlaws its dissemination. At the time, the U.S.

Obama 1, Osama 0

Sometimes the tabloid route is best: Obama got Osama. President Barack Hussein Obama approved the attack that killed his near namesake Osama bin Laden the very same week that Obama revealed his long-form birth certificate, addressing a silly dispute that was really about something heinous and serious: the suspicion of far too many Americans that the President was not who he said he was, that he was a secret Muslim and maybe not even playing for our team.