spit on your grave

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Awwwww... Such a shame. I feel so broken up about the news, honest. In fact, let me dig out an appropriate funeral dirge for this somber occasion...

Dave "Baby" Cortez - The Happy Organ (from The Happy Organ, 1959) - The #1 hit that helped convince scores of musicians to start twiddling with their organs.

(Seriously, though, my sense of schadenfreude doesn't extend to the poor souls getting shafted due to plant closures because the captains of fucking industry couldn't figure out the simple calculus that "economic downturn + soaring gas prices = retool the production lines towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles." Then again, the suits never feel the pain, so there's no motivation to think proactively.)

senators, congressmen, please heed the call

This is what hope feels like? It’s been so long I can’t tell anymore.

It might be a little premature to celebrate yesterday’s victory over the forces of darkness, as the question of which party will control the Senate is still up in the air, but I don’t care. The Republicans have lost their grip on the House, Rick Santorum crashed and burned, and the people of South Dakota shot down their state’s draconian anti-abortion law – all reasons enough to be happy this morning.

I notice that many of the talking heads on the right are complaining that last night’s election results will only result in legislative gridlock. So? Better a congress where the Bush cabal’s attempts to turn America into a petit-fascist surveillance state die a slow procedural death, instead of getting rubber-stamped into law by a bunch of self-serving solons who put party unity ahead of the Bill of Rights. Based on what the legislature has accomplished since 2001, gridlock is an acceptable minimum alternative.

The Byrds – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (from Turn, Turn, Turn, 1965)

Priss and the Replicants – Victory (from Bubblegum Crisis: Complete Vocal Collection, 2000)

The Adverts - New Day Dawning (from Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts, 1978)