Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

T R E 4 5 O N

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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Cheesy Music We Love, Continued

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I love every single one of these for their just cheesy excellence.

We’ll go dancing in the dark, walking in the park:

And I just love this because I love Boz Scaggs and I in no way think it is cheesy, but hot damned I want backup singers. When I win the universe and run shit, everything I say will be backed up by my own personal pips:

If you do not own it, buy this Boz Scaggs DVD Best music DVD by far, and the lighting and set and sound are perfect.

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  3. 3.

    LT

    Lido ain’t cheesy! That’s some fire music, man!

    The other two are deep cheese. Deep deep cheese.

  9. 9.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Ahem. The Lido shuffle is NOT cheesy!

    One for the money, two for the road…

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    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I was completely enamored with the Pinata Colada song when I was in High School for some reason. I was visiting my friend from NY at K.U. a few laters and they had this song on the jukebox at some townie bar. I played it a bunch of times in a row and explained to a couple of cute Kansas girls the cleverness of the lyrics. lol…

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    cckids

    I’ve got a soft spot for this one because it was the first 45 single I bought with my own hard-earned cash (babysitting money, 5th grade).

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    TaMara (BHF)

    Every time I see a muskrat swimming at the lake, I am pissed at Captain and Tennille, Because THIS SONG runs through my head and it’s a lie. Mean little buggers (the muskrats, I have no personal experience with either Capt or Tennille).

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    cckids

    @Spaghetti Lee: Ha! My sister & I mis-heard the lyrics to that song for years, we sang it “ranchers dance with the farmer’s daughters, farmers dance with the rancher’s cows”. We figured that’s why they were always fighting.

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    Jennifer

    Oh, so we have you to blame for the fact that, 35 years after first being inflicted on the music-listening public, we are STILL not free of the odious Pina Colada Song.

    Besides being musically insipid, it’s got to have about the smarmiest, sleaziest lyrics ever penned. It’s basically about a couple who are so deeply in love and committed to one another that they are each secretly trying to fuck around with other people. Given that his search for a new fuckbuddy is based entirely on esoteric criteria, it’s of little wonder that he’s seeking to screw around on his “old lady” because he probably selected her using the same criteria. In any case, it’s pretty clear that these two don’t really ever talk to one another, because they haven’t even bothered to find out that they both like pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, and fucking at midnight in the dunes by the cape. Then in the denouement, they end up together again because she responded to his cheesy ad, which makes it clear that they are perfect for one another because, let’s face it, where are either of them going to find anyone as shallow as their current partner? In short, it’s a shitty, shitty song about shitty, shitty people.

    This concludes the rant. Carry on.

  39. 39.

    Culture of Truth

    From the Cole personal ad:

    If you like pizza and kittens, and you often have pain
    If you don’t vote for the tea party, or the for the guy who ran Bain
    If you like to blog after midnight, we should go on a date

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    Gravenstone

    @Yatsuno: That reminds me of a brief period where VH1 Classic was taking requests, for donations I believe. That ended when someone apparently requested “99 Luftballoon”, for an entire hour …

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    Steeplejack

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    And we haven’t even touched Broadway musicals yet.

    Aw, hell, no! There’s got to be some line we don’t cross. Next thing you know we’ll be nipple-deep in Gilbert and Sullivan.

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    nineone

    So much cheese, it’s impossible to cut through it all. So little time. Has anyone mentioned Ram Jam and their Olympus Mons sized cheese classic Black Betty, bam-a-lam? If not,it will be hard to beat that. And I just saw the video for the first time. Holy jumpin’ Fred, that’s bad. I mean really. You think someone would have told them.

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack

    @Jennifer:

    LOL. Thank you, Camille Paglia. Too bad you put that here. The New York Review of Books would have paid you big money for that.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack

    @Origuy:

    I think toking means “lying in bed together fully clothed” in Norwegian. Hence the confusion.

  75. 75.

    mai naem

    @nineone: Ram Jam is not a cheesy song. Just sayin’

    Anyhow, I heard this song this AM on the radio. It’s supposed to be a sad song but everytime I hear the “And the operator says 40 cents more for three! more minutes” I crack up.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN_89-_K3f0

    Also too, I am thinking a quarter of the current US population probably has no idea what “the operator says 40 cents for 3 more mins” means.

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack

    Man, I tried to go out with a little dignity, but apparently FYWP doesn’t like something about my final comment. So instead of a grand exit I’m dropping through the trapdoor into moderation. Ain’t that a bitch.

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    lonesomerobot

    @Gravenstone: yes, I’m familiar with Bok. This one is Jeff Darcy, and the cartoon is bad enough, but the accompanying editorial takes the cake. Another womb-free human passing abortion judgement in teh awesomest way.

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    morley bolero

    I saw Little River Band and Boz Scaggs on the same bill in Regina, Saskatchewan back in ’77. Awesome concert.

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    gogol's wife

    That Lawrence Welk thing is just so wrong.

    I can tell that I would never get any work done if I actually looked at this thread seriously.

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