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Snakes on a Plain

Snakes on a Plain

The Return of the Protest Song

I never thought I’d live to see the day that loathsome tool of the Far Right, Fox “News,” would be linked on this blog. But I imagine it’s being gleefully linked on just about every left-leaning site in the blogosphere this morning. I’m sure the rightwingnutjob blogs are linking it, too, though with [...]

I know it’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but I like it

It’s not surprising that the hubris infusing the Bush Administration would lead them to the assumption that what they want = what they get. And with a Republican-controlled Congress and skeered-poopless citizenry, that’s often true at home.

Enter Mick Jagger, who is distinctly unimpressed with what the Bushies want and teaches them, “You can’t always [...]

No Honky Tonk Woman in Shanghai

China tells Stones to keep it clean

The lead singer of The Rolling Stones says China has asked him not to play five of the band’s songs at their first concert in the country in Shanghai this weekend.Mick Jagger says the Ministry of Culture has identified certain songs it wants left off the playlist, because it [...]

What kind of liberal would boycott “Brokeback Mountain”??????????

This kind. The kind that’s sick of the hypocritical, self-congratulatory Hollywood tools who follow and propagate the Gay Movie Formula. The GMF is followed to one degree or another by virtually every mainstream film with a gay theme or gay protagonist and “Brokeback” doesn’t miss a step:

1. As sympathetic as the characters may be, [...]