Published May 31st, 2009
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Wikipedia:
‘Blank and White’ is censored even on uncensored versions of the album with the line “or the President of whatever” removed (replaced with a beep) from “Let’s shoot up the mall/The school/or the President of whatever/or whoever wants to fight”.
Because I’m awesome, I dug up a version that’s not beeped out:
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Give me a picket sign
Make it blank and white
Like all those stupid teenage girls
We’re gonna need ‘em where we’re going tonight
Let’s make sure the music’s loud enough,
Let’s make sure the music’s loud enough,
We won’t even hear it end!
Published May 12th, 2009
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Why doesn’t Marty Peretz give up the ghost already. You had your fun bankrolling Eugene McCarthy with your wife’s money; now go away. It’s a crying shame that The New Republic is run by this doddering bundle of toxic grudges (half of which date before 1950!) It’s as if Caligula was running Harper’s.
His latest missive: “I’m Sick of Pelosi, Her Sanctimony and Her as Speaker; Maybe She Should Hand the Gavel Over to Jane Harman”
Jane Harman? WTF?
Somewhere along the line, influential people need to ask themselves: am I bitter and calcified? If the answer is yes, they should gracefully exit the public sphere. Stop trashing our world, man.
