♫ And there’s always something moreLost in talk, I waste my timeAnd it’s all been said beforeWhile further down behind the masqueradeThe tears are thereI don’t ask for all that muchI just want someone to careAnswer right now ♫— A, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rides an Emotional Roller Coaster

♫ There’s lots of stuff to drag you downLots of stuff you shouldn’t mess aroundBut I think I’m in too deepIt’s getting warm and I won’t keep ♫— Not vampires, werewolves or mummies. Just zombies.[footnote]Each link in this header connects … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Craves Brains … BRAINS!

♭ Swelling up ’til it don’t matter muchOverwhelming, choking without a way to get it outIt screams inside and I wait for control, for containmentThen another waveI lash out at any who choose, choose to be thereRejecting responsibility, I hold … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Blows Its Cool

♩ Who are the ones that we kept in charge?Killers, thieves, and lawyers ♩— The Black Rider Has a Bridge to Sell You[footnote]Fitting into this post’s theme, Tom Waits grew up on a ranch south of Phoenix and speaks Spanish.[/footnote] … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Asks ‘What if God Was One of Us?’

♫ I confess I felt so worthlessI lost hope; big price to payNow there were stars and there were wild bird circlingA lot of screams, and fight breaks outBetween wars and between burningsHe did it all for a chance to … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks Its Battles

♫ It’s not easyNothin’ to say ’cause it’s already saidIt’s never easyWhen I look on in your eyesThen I find that I’ll do fineWhen I look on in your eyesThen I’ll do better ♫— Heck, listen to the whole album … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reflects on the Recriminations of Reminiscing

♪ I smiled cos I loved you bothSo, I put the apron onI put the apron on ♪— The Once and Future Wesley Stace Think British folk rockers with a deep catalog of paeans to proletarians, and the brain brings … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Belabors a Point About Working It Out

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch— Nothing starts as a cliche Marvel to think “What if[footnote]See what Uvular did there? Clever. Worth every cent of the free admission to … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Speculates of Late

♪ It’s only human to want to inherit every feeling you’ve gotAnd like it or not, let’s take it to the Nth degreeHere we goGive us ten bucks and a head startHere’s where we goThe puzzle’s pulling apartAnd here’s the … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Relates

♫ I must walk five miles a dayBut when I sit downThis is what they saySay, I gotta move onGotta move onGot no home, but I gotta move along ♫— The Best ‘80s Band From Atlanta, Not Athens or Marietta … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Proposes a Solution

♪ On a larkOn a whimI said there’s two kinds of men in this world and you’re neither of them And his fistCut the smokeI had an eighth of a second to wonder if he got the joke ♪— A … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Has Heard That One Before

♬ Misunderstand meHey, miss. Understand me ♬— You, too, shall someday smash the glass and cry, “Too Much Joy”[footnote]No, you should apologize for making me post yet one more TMJ video.[/footnote] Nearly a quarter century prior to the day on … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Would Like to Have a Word

♫ There’s a road, in OklahomaStraighter’n a preacherLonger’n a memory ♫— Yeah, Steve Earle has a song for that.[footnote]Pick your own “that.”[/footnote] In addition to putting to the lie to the conventional wisdom that gifted musicians slide into a sophomore … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Has a Bridge to Sell You

♪ In perpetuityAll throughout the universeYou and mePast end of time and edge of spaceI fall forever in your faceThe edge of space and the end of timeI am yours and you are mine ♪— C’mon, ‘Cados! Just Love These … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Ain’t Going Nowhere No How, Forever

♬ Mrs. America, how’s your favorite son?Do you care just what he’s done? No!Wild in the streets, running, runningWild in the streets, running, runningWild in the streets, running, runningWild in the streets ♬— Circle Jerks Uvular spends a lot of … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gibes the Beloved Country

♬ Starry eyesHow can I get to youMy true littleStarry eyesWhat can I say or doFor you my littleStarry eyes, starry eyesForever shall be mine ♬— Rocky Erickson Elementary school-aged Uvular loved In Search of … . He particularly enjoyed … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Goes Eight Miles High

♪  Well, there was this movie I seen one timeAbout a man riding cross the desert and it starred Gregory PeckHe was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himselfThe townspeople wanted to crush that … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Again Thinks About a Movie Way Too Hard

♪ Trouble in mind, I’m blueBut I won’t be blue always,‘Cause the sun’s gonna shineIn my backdoor some day♪— Composed by Richard M. Jones So much rot and bother pops up in the Politics Thread on a daily basis that … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Tries Not to Feel Doomed