The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

It’s Easy To Get Bored

by Smitty This is a 1997 cut off of Aftertaste, by Helmet. How prophetically it characterizes our electorate and politicians, emphasis mine: If I’m half informed Sympathize because it’s easy to get bored I don’t have time to waste I’m busy cultivating useless good taste You need to know how to lie The savage civil […]

VIDEO: Hate Crime Caught on Camera!

Be prepared for stomach-churning nausea if you click the “play” button on what Fark.com has quite accurately described as “The worst version of ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in the entire history of ever.” A genuinely vicious desecration of a great song: That’s so unspeakably wrong, I did some research in an attempt to understand why anyone […]

That Ain’t Country Music

I’m not one of these hard-core purists, who denounces any artist who strays too far from the original formula, despite my hereditary Old School tendencies. (My mother worked for the Atlanta office of RCA Records when I was a kid and used to bring home authographed records by Eddie Arnold, etc.) And I’m OK with […]

Chris Cassone’s Tea Party Anthem Ripped Off by the New Yorker

Can you say “copyright infringement,” boys and girls? A gray-haired man in a blue velvet jacket and sneakers started inching toward the center of the room with an acoustic guitar. He had a “Reagan for President” button on his shoulder strap and a “Hoffman for Congress” sticker on his case. [T]hey invited the guitarist to […]

Patton: A Real American Hero

CubaChi on Twitter: Alright! @MarkLevinShow is playing the Patton music now! You know this is going to be good! Great taste in music, ma’am! This is super-cool — Francis Ford Coppola describes how he got fired for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay: The original theatrical trailer: Here’s another version of the trailer: My cousin Mark and […]

What’s Another Harmless Lie Between Friends?

Little Miss Attila points to Real Clear Politics where, under the skilled hand of Robert Gibbs, Operation Assclown staggers forward, at a medium pace*.

But, in a rare moment of musical oversight, LMA’s “What Are a Few Broken Promises. . . between friends?”, sadly, misses the correct musical linkage:

Band at JSU Banned at LGF:
Time for a Neo-Confederate Music Fest!

Fight on, fight on for ole Jax State We’re proud that we’re from Alabama . . . The lyrics of the fight song at my alma mater, Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, would almost certainly result in immediate banishment from Little Green Footballs. “Proud that we’re from Alabama“? It would be worse than down-dinging a comment […]

Some Blues

by Smitty

Now and then a tune comes to mind, and you find yourself YouTubing. For starters, there is Tracy Chapman doing “Give Me One Reason”

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