I am truly sick of writing about, nay, thinking about Sarah Palin. I am going to make a vow to avoid the topic for at least a week. It being Friday Night, I can avoid writing about anything, should I please, which is what I’m going to do, except to note in passing that John McCain’s speech, part of which I forced myself to watch, was more horrible than I could have hoped. He even did it in front of a blue screen, tailor made for another Colbert challenge, not to mention a turn in front of a huge picture of the Walter Reed Middle School, looking suspiciously like an example of one of his many homes.
Now, on to the music.
I believe in the distant past I may have posted this song (but not this performance), a great piece of cultural reportage by Randy Newman, in which he summarizes the foreign policy of the Republicans quite well. This is the sort of thinking we’ve heard this week from the folks on the stage and the folks in the seats.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO42gvCSPI[/youtube]
If I’m going to repeat anything on this feature, it might as well be Randy, one of our greatest songwriters. He’ll be in Northampton, MA at the end of the month, by the way, and I’m hoping to be there. If I make it, it will be the first concert I’ve seen since a Dylan/Santana concert more than 10 years ago.
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