A political tribute to Frank Zappa complete with an on-target video is up at . The video is also a good reminder that, politically speaking, Frank wasn't one of us. He was a small "c" conservative, which means that he opposed the new Republicans and the neocons with every fiber of his being.
I appreciate Zappa and his musical legacy enormously, but was never a big fan of The Mothers of Invention, a band that for me had a "sour" sound I didn't much care for (ditto Steely Dan), but I do love his music when it's being performed by a legit symphony or big band orchestra.
Gates is being questioned on CSPAN if you're interested. I listened to some of the hearing on NPR while running around this morning and I've gotta give Robert Byrd credit for nailing Gates down on both Iran and Syria, extracting Gates' opinion that it would be against our best interests to attack either country.
Granted, Gates left the barn door open a crack, but when you work for a dimwitted serial wanker like our increasingly unhinged president, you learn to leave your options open. After all, you never know when national security will require us to stick a firecracker up some small nation's ass, or if it will be necessary to pull the wings off some growing rebellion in an oil-rich nation lest democracy break out.
Apt analogy.
Both resolutions passed on bluster and the gaseous sputterings of fascism-inclined cold warriors, and with an almost total dearth of any kind of proven facts.
, and I for one can find nothing to disagree with.
Keillor writes clever essays, does great radio and turns out the occasional memorable book.
That doesn't mean his work is appropriate fodder for Hollywood, and I hope no one there revisits the scene of this cinematic crime.
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