The thread where Tad can do what he can do best

¿Que pasa, Antonio?

Is this an excuse for a vanity thread, or am I being quarantined?

Of course, where I to figure out a way to bridge those two things Anthony thinks I do best, I'd be a happier guy :-)

it makes people happy to talk about what they know. i figure everyone needs to be a bit happier these days. Now i want you to talk about law and zappa

You are a saint, Anthony :-)

To be honest, I don't feel much like talking about law right now, because I'm not happy about where I think it will be heading down here. I really fear that G.W. and his Administration, and assorted officials at the state and local levels, will use the bombings as an excuse to erode, even destroy, some of our hard-earned constitutional and civil liberties. Better men and better occupants of the Oval Office than G.W. -- folks like Lincoln, Wilson, F.D.R., Truman, even Clinton -- couldn't resist the urge to violate people's civil liberties during times of crisis, so there's no logical reason to believe that G.W. will succeed where his betters have failed. I do wish that I had paid more attention in Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure classes, though :-)

As fer FZ, I've mostly been listening to Broadway the Hard Way and Meets the Mothers of Prevention, the most logical Zappa choices these days. Hadn't really listened to either since Poppy Bush left office, to tell the truth, and it's odd how dead-on both of those CDs are in light of recent events. Aside from that, mostly classical piano music -- Mozart, Debussy, Schubert and the like -- very good for relaxing, easing the spirit as it were (with some Penderecki thrown in for good measure).

I was thinking of sending this to the 'Don't Even joke' thread, and maybe I still will! The ONLY Zappa song that ever offended me even in the slightest was "Dong Work for Yuda", which was about speech impediments. I'm not afflicted and I don't remotely know anybody who is, yet when I first heard it I thought it crossed a line! Weird eh?

What, and I don't get a thread to talk about cute boys, drone rock and paranoia?

Humph, in that case I'll ressusitate the Dirty Dronerock Boys of Rugby: Shag and Destroy thread!

Actually, "Dong Work for Yoda" was poking fun of Zappa's bodyguard (who had both a speech impediment and was prone to Spoonerisms), not people with speech impediments per se. But not knowing that, yeah, a person could get offended by it. The only 2 Zappa songs that offended me were "Baby Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" and "Jumbo Go Away" (both of which were just pretty mean).

Speaking of offensiveness, I'm not going to listen to Stern anymore. He went way over the line with his Arab-bashing last week, making all sorts of "raghead" jokes and saying that we should just bomb any Muslim country. That was inexcusable.