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Song of the Day 4/14: Albert Brooks, “Rewriting the National Anthem”
Everybody wants a new national anthem, but only Albert Brooks recognized that the most democratic way to find one would be to hold open auditions. From the 1973 album “Comedy Minus One.” Update: Thanks to Jim from South Jersey, it’s now the proper clip.
Song of the Day 4/13: Dead Kennedys, “I Fought the Law (And I Won)”
You think you know the original, but you don’t. I keep running across old songs that would need very little retrofitting to apply to Donald Trump. Today’s example: Jello Biafra’s snide repurposing of the Sonny Curtis classic to fit the Dan White fiasco. For those with spotty memories or too few gray hairs, Dan White […]
Joe’s Working Class Appeal
CNN dug through the archives and found documents that explain Joe Biden’s unique ability to woo Trump voters — a series of never-before-published letters from Biden to some of the Senate’s most ardent segregationists, seeking support for a bill that would have limited court-ordered busing. Mississippi Democratic Sen. James Eastland believed that desegregation would “mongrelize” […]
Song of the Day 4/11: Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, “Old Town Road”
If you doubt that hip-hop has permeated virtually all of American music, look no further than the controversy over “Old Town Road.” The song started as a viral video in December and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 within three months. But the controversy hit when Billboard ruled the song ineligible for its […]
Song of the Day 4/10: Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”
I’m not sure which one I had, but it knocked me on my ass the last few days. New Orleans ivory tickler Huey Smith scraped the bottom of the charts with his self-penned tune in 1957. It’s since been covered by everybody from Jerry Lee Lewis to Aerosmith to the Grateful Dead, but most successfully […]
Song of the Day 4/6: The Avalanches, “Frontier Psychiatrist”
I think this is a good representation of how Donald Trump’s brain works. Nothing in this song is actually original — it’s assembled from hundreds of samples with nothing beyond some scratching added, mostly from old recordings from all kinds of sources. The title phrase comes from a comedy sketch on a Canadian TV show, […]
Highlands Bunker – Bonus Episode – The Worst Parts of the Delaware Way
It’s a bonus episode! Never say RE Vanella isn’t a giving person. Karl the Producer joins him in a brand new bunker to talk about Joe Biden — the newest allegations against him, the weird obsession with defending him, and the broken Delaware politics that created him. https://www.patreon.com/posts/25894602
Song of the Day 4/5: The Housemartins, “Build”
This one’s for Nancy: A plaintive ballad about overdevelopment from mid-’80s British band the Housemartins. The group frequently addressed social issues because singer and lyricist Paul Heaton didn’t like writing love songs. Clambering men in big bad boots Dug up my den, dug up my roots. Treated us like plasticine town They build us up […]
Song of the Day 4/4: Randy Rainbow, “Cruella DeVos”
Randy Rainbow, the parodist born for this administration, couldn’t resist taking on Trump’s most inept henchwoman once she cut the Special Olympics from her department’s budget. It’s since been (supposedly) restored, but that didn’t stop Randy from linking her to Disney’s nastiest villainess.
Virginia Pols Show How Biden Can Get Through Handsgate
Two months ago Virginia politics was rocked by a decades-old photograph in Gov. Ralph Northam’s law school yearbook that depicted someone in blackface. That was followed by charges of sexual assault against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and an admission by the attorney general that he had once donned blackface. The reaction was immediate: Resign, thousands […]
Dover Downs Demonstrates Again That Delaware Lawmakers Are Chumps
Remember how Delaware legislators spent ungodly amounts of time and energy wringing their hands over possible job losses at Dover Downs if we didn’t stop our cruel taxation of their vice-based money machine? Remember how Jason and I kept pointing out that DD “lost money” mainly because it insisted on over-compensating management and running its […]
Song of the Day 4/3: Kings of Leon, “Hands to Myself”
Yeah, I’m snarking on Joe Biden — with an opening line like “Can’t keep my hands to myself no matter how hard I’m trying to,” how could I not? — but I actually like this KoL cover of a cheesy dance tune originally given to Selena Gomez. I could have gone with her version, but […]
Biden Blames Bernie for Women Pointing Out He’s a Creep
From a Slate story by Ben Mathis-Lilley: Tuesday morning well-sourced Axios reporter Mike Allen wrote that the former veep’s “advisers” believe that “rival Democrats,” particularly Bernie Sanders, are responsible for the coverage of his alleged handsiness. Allen reports that Biden has told supporters that he is still going “full steam ahead” with his 2020 plans […]
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