Political Sociology -- SOMEBODY Finally Had The Guts To Write It

That they're not as adept at pandering to the lowest common denominator?

 

Or they didn't have Karl Rowe in charge of election strategy.

 

Exactly. Let's not discuss issues. Let's confuse the masses by attacking the character of a political adversary.

 

But, but, but I've seen the signs outside of Midland, Texas, that say it is the home of George W. and Laura Bush. I've always wanted to egg the sign or add an addendum about how it is the home of Laura Bush, boyfriend killer.

 

The Bush home in Midland.

 

The political theorist Mr. Hank Williams Jr. worked this out years ago:


I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just "hillbilly"
My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a businessman
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I’d send him some homemade wine

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
And shoot him with my old 45
Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive ...

 

What boyfriend did Laura Bush kill?

We must have it confused with Chappaquidick...

 

Well played.

 

Hey I love the show. Anything making fun of the political clowns on both sides is worth a laugh.

 

She ran a stop sign, struck a car, and the crash killed the car's occupant, who was a classmate and friend of hers, though not her "boyfriend".

You didn't know about this? Criminy.

 

The writer's use of "Jesus Christ Superstar" to illustrate his point is incredibly ignorant of the times when the show was first produced. It didn't come out of nowhere. It was preceded by several years of the mostly longhaired "Jesus Freak movement" among the young, and of course was accompanied by some people's desire to make a buck off it. I remember seeing bibles translated into slang to better reach the "cats and chicks" out there. There was a book titled "Treat Me Cool, Lord," for instance. So to an extent, mainstream society had been desensitized to the notion of Christianity as pop culture by the time the play hit the stage. While some thought "JC Superstar" was sacrilege, many of the traditionalists viewed such activities as safer, better diversions for longhairs than having to watch them drop acid and copulate in the town square. So they tolerated a lot of it, even seeing King Herod appear to be, well, flaming gay. "Jesus Christ Superstar" wasn't the beginning of something, it was that thing having become so mainstream that show tunes were written about it. Then and now, those who were shocked or offended were for the most part people who enjoyed saying they were shocked and offended.

And it went right over a lot of heads. When I encountered "JC Superstar," I was in sixth grade of a rural but not Southern K-through-8 school. The new music teacher was the elderly wife of a preacher, and the only thing that was mildly controversial about her teaching us the songs of "Jesus Christ Superstar" was the mention of Jesus in a public school (Can she do that? Yeah, go ahead). She wanted to reach us kids with "your own music," and she found another one she just loved -- the hairy guys were singing about "sweet Jesus." Name of the song was "One Toke Over The Line." Now what the heck is a "toke?" -- must be slang for something, but what difference does that make, they're singing about Jesus, after all. One week the record vanished from the pile. Seems her son had come home from college and told her what a "toke" was. And she wasn't alone, apparently. In checking a fact before posting this, I learned that the Lawrence Welk Singers had performed "One Toke Over The Line" on his show.

 

According to the papers in West Texas, she was drunker than drunk when she did it.

Good times.