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Listen Joe, I need to tell you how much I envy you. I envy you because your adopted last name now symbolizes masculinity and patriotism rather than “beer belly.” I envy you because you can hunt animals and have a higher alcohol tolerance than I do. Mostly, I envy you because you thought Aaron Tippin’s “Drill Here Drill Now” was a great song, something I may never be able...
...know that “Plumber” isn’t even the guy’s last name? He’s not even licensed, doggone it! And his real surname is Wurzelbacher. Now Joe, doesn’t that sound like some kind of Arab Communist name to you? I know it does to me. So why the heck is the GOP, our GOP, suddenly so keen on this...
...guess I can now count on your revenge vote for Barack Obama, Mr. Sixpack? I’ll have to get going then, because ACORN pays me according to number of registrations. I’ll probably put in your name twice; it’s not like anyone reads these things anyway. But remember sir, now that Sarah’s winking at Joe the Plumber, we’re going to show her who is boss on November 4th, right...
...Forbidden,” was a professor in the Harvard University Music Department from 1961 until his retirement in 1989. Now living in New York City, Kirchner composed the orchestral version of “The Forbidden” as the third part of his triptych of the same name, which includes a piano sonata written in 2003 and a string quartet from 2006. Kirchner, who studied with both Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg, describes this piece as a mixture of past compositional techniques with contemporary twelve-tone techniques. Although “The Forbidden” was originally commissioned...
...remembered as a rare cease-fire moment in the heated 2008 presidential campaign. Exchanging rolled-up shirt sleeves for white ties, John McCain and Barack Obama cracked each other up on topics that usually result in outraged press statements when raised on the campaign trail. "I got my name, Barack, from my father," deadpanned Obama, "and I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for President...