I'm posting this, partially, because it's such a classic song. Enjoy. If you can,...
The brilliant Iowahawk is twittering his way into the Charlie Sheen controversy - and he gets it:Whatever Charlie Sheen's faults, +1 to him for refusing to provide the weepy apology the media nitwits seem to be demanding.We've asked before and we'll ask again:
"Tales of the O-Cult
"What a mensch this guy is. Total sweetheart. As soon as he was elected, he told me he would come to the negotiating table without preconditions. You know what 'preconditions' are? That's Persian for 'balls.' Barack, one look at the stars on the stage proves you still have a knack for community organizing. You've brought the entire evil community together, in the spirit of international dialog, to ask you one simple question: how does our ass taste?
"I try to live by a code of manners and decorum that sets my little chunk of the world somewhere on the gentility scale between, say, a Henry James novel and a Judd Apatow movie. But I also try to create art—which has nothing to do with decorum or manners, everything to do with brutal truth telling in whatever language you need. Art has to map out the entire city of life, not just its palaces and cathedrals, but its gutters, alleys, carnivals and cheapjack malls as well.
"'O people of Chicago, why do you shun me so?' he lamented.
'You stupid ass foo, it because you white!'"