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Author: DOuG pRATt
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The Rolling Stones album Beggar’s Banquet includes a song called “Prodigal Son.”
There was some initial confusion about the songwriting credit, having not been clearly attributed to the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who first recorded it in 1964.
The song is actually a reworking of Wilkins’ song “That’s No Way To Get Along” from 1929, before he became a devout Christian.
Please Peace Me
We have the 1918 pandemic, the unemployment rate of the Great Depression, and the race riots of 1968, all at the same time. There’s no need to wait for hindsight to have 20/20 vision about 2020, and the year isn’t even half over!
Something that’s overlooked about John Lennon’s infamous heckling of the Smothers Brothers at the Troubadour in 1974 is that he knew Tommy Smothers. Yeah, Lennon was being a jerk, and he acknowledged it ever after, but in a way he was just being a pain in the butt to a friend.
Bat mobile
Oops! There shouldn’t be a space between “Bat” and “mobile.” See what one little typo can do? Let me fix that. Batmobile. There, that’s better.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Trump wanted to end social distancing.
He was joined by those agree with him…
… and those who don’t.
Land of 10,000 Arrests
Who gave the order to arrest the CNN crew? Was it the judgment of a trooper on the scene, or was someone higher up the reporting path called to make a decision? If I were still a reporter these are the questions I would ask.