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Talking back to 80s music, 33

So.  Buy yourself some chaps and a hat and get to it, then.  Just keep your spurs off my couch. “I Wanna Be A Cowboy,” Boys Don’t Cry …you’re welcome, Ash

Revenge of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

For those of you who missed it earlier today, the Democrats succeeded in turning Crawford, TX, into some sort of sad, surreal, televised minstrel show.  Really—I’m surprised the DNC didn’t dress Jim Rassmann in blackface, or strap a tap shoe to each of Max Cleland’s stumps.  That’s how embarrassingly crass the whole pathetic spectacle was. I hope somebody passed around a hat.  ‘Cause if you’re going to trade your dignity

Peter Fonda reminisces, offers his thoughts on the Kerry Swift Boat controversy

Fonda:  “I only met Kerry once—through Jane—during his Vietnam protest days.  You have to remember, Jane and I weren’t really close during the early seventies, and I was far less into geopolitical minutia than she was, being zoinked on acid or fifty-cent wine most of the time—so what I do recollect of ol’ Johnny is kinda hazy. “The most striking thing about him, as I remember, was just how much

Svetlana Gets Experimental!

**** INDC has the story.

Film reviews in five words or less, #14

The Human Stain (2003) Directed by Robert Benton.  Stars Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. Five words or less review:  Wait, Hannibal Lecter is black…?

Up is down, black is white, The Captain is Tennille…

Democrats to the American Electorate:  “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.  Concentrate on Bush.  Bush is evil.  Evil.  Evil.”*

Up is down, black is white, The Captain is Tennille…

Democrats to the American Electorate:  “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.  Concentrate on Bush.  Bush is evil.  Evil.  Evil.”*

Up is down, black is white, Cheech is Chong…

The Democrat-heavy California Assembly addresses California voters on the subject of outsourcing:  “Study?  What study?  We don’t recall any study. “…Perhaps you’re not confusing us with, say, the Oregonian Assembly?  That’s an easy mistake to make, after all—what with us both wearing suits and shoes and ties and fancy watches and whatnot…” (h/t Pej.  More here and here)

Up is down, black is white, Cheech is Chong…

The Democrat-heavy California Assembly addresses California voters on the subject of outsourcing:  “Study?  What study?  We don’t recall any study. “…Perhaps you’re not confusing us with, say, the Oregonian Assembly?  That’s an easy mistake to make, after all—what with us both wearing suits and shoes and ties and fancy watches and whatnot…” (h/t Pej.  More here and here)

Kerry labels Bush campaign “Fear and Smear”; Bushies counter by floating 9 proposed names for the Kerry campaign

“Duck and Cover” “Self-inflicted Wound” “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” “The Princess and the Pea” “John Kerry Reporting for a Very Public Asskicking!” “Swift Boat Veterans for ‘Make Them Stop, Please,‘ cried the whiny liberal dandies” “The French Connection III” “Tea Cups and Shrimp Forks” “You’re fucking joking, right…?” **** story