progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
December 7, 2012 4 Comments
I’m of the opinion that bilingual education makes for smarter people and a stronger nation. At least one cat is apparently on my side.
December 3, 2012 7 Comments
Not quite as moving as the Mister Rogers remix, but pretty damned good. I’d forgotten how likable Levar Burton is, and how can you dismiss a song with the following line?
BURTON: I love — maps.
December 2, 2012 Leave a comment
T. and I are about 2/3 of the way through The Beatles’ 1965 film Help!, which I haven’t watched since high school. Lord knows I love me some Beatles, who serve as the foundation of my sense of music, but Help! simply isn’t as strong a film as 1964′s A Hard Day’s Night. Sure, Help! has plenty of fun, and some extraordinary songs, but the larger framework of the ring which designates a sacrificial victim just doesn’t work as well A Hard Day’s Night, when their journey to putting on a concert served as a sufficient excuse to all of the shenanigans. Oh well, I still love the boys. Enough so that I’ll probably even re-watch 1967′s Magical Mystery Tour one of these days.
Here are the Beatles on August 14, 1965, singing Help! on The Ed Sullivan Show.
December 1, 2012 2 Comments
The sweet way of looking at this video is seeing a fox and a cat dining together on a fish and then heading off to explore and play, the best of friends. The cynical way of looking at this video is to imagine that it all started with the fox and fish as best of friends, until the cat got in the way. Poor fish.
November 24, 2012 5 Comments
Because it’s Saturday night, y’all!
Love how they lip sync and don’t even bother have the keyboards represented on stage.
November 22, 2012 Leave a comment
Remember Rebecca Black’s viral sensation, “Friday”? You may have tried to scrub it from your memory, although I’m still a big fan of Stephen Colbert’s rendition, performed on Jimmy Fallon’s show. Well, the producer of “Friday,” Patrice Wilson, has helped birth another YouTube phenom. Here’s Nicole Westbrook with “Thanksgiving.” It’s offensive (black guy showing up to eat Thanksgiving ribs), it’s creepy, and it does a great job of capturing how awkward and unfortunate the middle school years can be.
No need to thank me. 
Hope you’re having a great holiday!
November 21, 2012 Leave a comment
The cooking motif also fits in nicely with Thanksgiving…
November 19, 2012 1 Comment
From 1968, here’s a top ten hit by Sam & Dave to put us all in the right frame of mind for Thanksgiving.
Coincidentally, the backing players are wearing just what I’ll be wearing on Thursday, as I offer my thanks for the mashed potatoes…
You didn’t have to make it like you did
but you did but you did
And I thank you.
November 18, 2012 Leave a comment
I definitely agree that now is the time for progressives to up the pressure on President Obama, to encourage him to be…you know…progressive.
BILL MAHER: It’s now the job of progressives to hold his feet to the fire for causes important to us. If not now, when?
November 8, 2012 Leave a comment
From the same people who brought you the presidential debates in song format, here’s Mitt Romney singing his concession speech and laughing all the way to the bank.
October 29, 2012 Leave a comment
With the election increasingly close, it’s essential that President Obama’s team be quick on its feet to refute any new Romney lies, such as Romney’s suggestion that auto companies in Ohio are outsourcing jobs due to Obama policies. (Never mind the fact that Romney has been a chief proponent of outsourcing.) The Obama administration just released this ad, which is good. It’s direct, factual, and doesn’t pull punches.
