Who's watching "The Wire" anyway?

Amazon always sends me those emails "We thought you might like this based on what you bought" emails. This is the one I got today. Don't know why, but I thought it was pretty funny.

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Franklin can count by twos and tie his shoes. No idea if he watches The Wire, though. And Bruce Cockburn sings the theme song to the Franklin show. Yeah, I know this all belongs in the parenting thread.

 

Huggy, my man, you need to get out more.

 

WTF?

 

Franklin found his treasure down on the corner.

 

Here comes the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate
Cry for guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die.
Bruce Cockburn's classic

 

I think I speak for everyone, abbott, when I ask, again, WTF?

 

If I had a rocket launcher Bruce Cockburn (apprently related to my wife way, way down the line) would die.

I kid....I kid. "Mama Wants To Barrelhouse All Night Long" is my fave Cockburn song. "Tokyo" gets the place money.

 

Bruce Cockburn's most famous song, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher."

 

OK.

This thread is exceedingly strange.

 

I'm guessing there are a lot of parents ordering "The Wire" for themselves and something for the kids to bring their total up to free shipping level.

 

Bunk: Them Greeks sure have weird-ass names.

McNulty: Hey, don't knock the Greeks! They invented civilization.

Bunk: Yeah, and ass-fucking, too.