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Friday Night Music

Friday, April 20, 2012

It’s increasingly the case, more’s the pity, that these videos are suggested by the obituaries, and I’m not talking about Dick Clark. Levon Helm, of the Band died yesterday so the choice is made. My personal favorite Band song is I Shall Be Released, but as Helm doesn’t sing on that one, at least not […]

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Friday Night Music-Early Edition

Friday, April 13, 2012

My wife and I are leaving early today for a mini-vacation, and we may, alas, be without the internet tonight. I had intended to try to find something to post to make fun of Little Ricky’s lamentable exit from the race, or perhaps something to show my empathy for the hard time Ann Romney has […]

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Friday NIght Music, Double Feature

Friday, April 6, 2012

It appears that this week was really, truly, finally the week that Mitt Romney became inevitable. So this is the song Republicans are singing. They didn’t get what they wanted, so now they’re desperately hoping-desperately trying to convince themselves-that they got what they needed. Well, this isn’t any old Friday, this is Good Friday, and […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, March 30, 2012

There’s always a silver lining of some sort in almost any situation. The Trayvon Martin killing, despite the racism we’re hearing from the right, is no exception. At least from what I can see the reaction from the country as a whole has been remarkably post racial. In the old days a killing like this […]

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Can’t resist

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Even though it’s not Friday. Via Paul Krugman’s blog. Krugman notes that several of his commenters took offense at the idea that Springsteen, et al would read a lefty political message into a Woody Guthrie song. Is there a word for historical ignorance akin to innumeracy?      

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Friday Night VIdeo

Friday, March 9, 2012

This is a week late, but I would be remiss if I didn’t note Davey Jones passing with something by the Monkees. Now, to the purist they were not a group at all, being as they didn’t play their own instruments, at least at the start, but then, they did do their own singing, at […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, March 2, 2012

A anthem ready made for the Obama campaign, if they have the smarts to use it, and if Bruce lets them. This, from an Obama speech to some union workers, seems to echo Bruce: Because I’ve got to admit, it’s been funny to watch some of these politicians completely rewrite history now that you’re back […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 24, 2012

Well, in keeping with the topicality requirement, I thought I would try to find a song that celebrated something all the Republican candidates had in common, and I think I’ve found it, in two versions. This group was a true one hit wonder, though according to what I read while wandering through youtube, they parlayed […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 17, 2012

So, I’ve been trying to keep these things topical and timely, but what with things changing so fast in the crazysphere, it’s hard to keep up. Even Adele,this years Grammy sensation, probably never figured that by the time she got to sing this song, Newt Gingrich would be old news yet again. Besides it’s not […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, February 10, 2012

Okay, there’s one topic that dominated the news this week. Who would have thought, in this day and age, that in the midst of a depression the party out of power would want to make access to birth control a central issue in the campaign. I say it again, Obama is the luckiest guy on […]

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