Re:RT
I first heard Bright Lights about 5 years ago, looked it up at AMG, and was amazed at how seldom such a perfect song had been covered. At the time, I thought perhaps it was deference to the couple, but now I wonder if Thompson just won't give permission. I suppose that is his business, and I shouldn't wonder.
Another song with inadequate cover is Melanie Safka's Steppin.
"Chicago '68 is just what we don't need; it tipped enough of the fearful middle that Nixon got an absolute majority even with the South going for Wallace"
1) Too many people focus way too much on the Presidential elections, and not enough on Congress.
2) An actual practical non-union non-socialist left was developed in the late sixties. Feminism, environmentalism, gay rights, etc. It wasn't only the fearful middle that was tipped.
3) I don't think change is going to come either thru the media or the ballot box. We have let it get too far, let them gain too much control. But that's me.
I swore in 1973 I would go to my grave never having voted for a Republican.
I do blame Bush. I have called him a "baby-killer" in public, meant it, and can defend it in cases of at least two nations. He belongs in Brussels next to Milosevic.
But I got to say I am extremely disappointed that this country doesn't look like Chicago '68. I do not like any Democrats who voted for the bankruptcy bill. We are in intolerable times, and we should not be tolerating them. Our kids will suffer for our aversion to confrontation, even violence.
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