Obama Watch: Think W. Was Arrogant?

President Obama, writing about Republican opposition to his stimulus package, and the Republican urge for tax cuts, said this:

"I reject these theories and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Obama got 53% of the vote. Not resounding by any stretch of the word "resounding."

This is the kind of arrogance that helped garner the last White House occupant the lowest approval ratings for a president ever. I think the American people have a lower tolerance for this sort of attitude on the part of their elected officials. Keep it up, Mr. Obama, and you will be a one term president. And even that one term will be too long for the 47% of us who didn't vote for you.

The Cheese Shop sketch

Because I needed a good laugh.


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I'm a Boy and I'm a Man

Vincent Furnier turns 61 today. This would not be notable if not for the fact that he is Alice Cooper.

In this odd video from 1972, the Coop tears it up on "I'm 18," a great song that mixes pop and glam rock and gives a hint of punk to come. I must say, in the video Alice looks a little like Son of Svengoolie in glitter pants. Kinda funny. Well, not real funny, not funny ha ha, just...funny.

Obama Watch: Really, He Should Ask If They've Paid Their Taxes

Another Obama nominee for a government post, this time Nancy Killefer, who was to be the first ever Chief Performance Officer, has admitted to having trouble remembering that pesky task of paying one's taxes. Killefer has withdrawn her name from consideration.

This story begs the question: What the heck is a Chief Performance Officer?

That Was the Day

Fifty years ago today the plane crashed and the music died. Fifty years makes the mourning for Buddy Holly middle aged. Rock n roll itself is middle aged too and it's founding fathers, those that are still alive, are just plain old.

Yet the music lives on. If the word "timeless" can be applied to anything it can be applied to the songs created by the likes of Buddy Holly, Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc. Strange that music that was so of the moment and of the youth turned out to be music that has no end, music that is, well, timeless.

Why is that? If for no other reason, it's because the songs were pretty darn good. Catchy melodies and easy to sing along with words. "Peggy Sue" was released seven years before I was born, yet I know all the words and can easily sing along with it. As long as no one else is around when I do that. I prefer to sing alone; I also prefer to spare any potential listener the pain of hearing me.

Donovan "Season of the Witch"

From the French Pop Festival in November, 1966. Donovan looks a tad...sleepy.

Season of Melancholy

In the depths of winter, in deadly dreary February, we are not in the Season of the Witch, we are in the Season of Melancholy.

I like Ryan "Don't Call Me Bryan" Adams. His work of late is awfully melancholy and I like melancholy. I mean, I guess, I like feeling melancholy, I like the emotion. But what kind of person would like to feel such a thing? Melancholy, like Nembutal, numbs it all. Melancholy is like a shot of novocaine in one's heart.

Conversely, I like to laugh. I like to be amused. It amuses me to think that Ryan Adams bears a vague resemblance to Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters."


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