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I blogged the other day that Tom Lehrer’s MLF Lullaby, although about Germany, worked well with Islam in the starring role.  It turns out that Tom Leher was prescient about folk songs too.  First, the New York Times story: When one of Cuba’s best-known musicians landed in the United States, his first appearance was not [...]

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I got a letter from a good friend who not only linked me to this worth-reading Uncle Jimbo post, but who also added “Has anyone noticed that all of the airplane incidents since 9/11 have been perpetrated by muslims?”  Since I live with a liberal, and I know the score, my response to him was [...]

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In the “better late than never” category, I discovered a few days ago that my local conservative radio station, KSFO, maintains a rolling archive of all the shows they’ve aired over the preceding seven days.  This means that, finally, I can listen to Rush, whose radio show normally comes along at the world’s most inconvenient [...]

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I was disappointed to read that he’s an Obama man, but in his heyday, there were few like Tom Lehrer.  Here are a couple of my favorites.  The first is the The Elements: And here is one of the lesser known songs, but one of my favorites, Oedipus Rex:

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