This morning, I could not tolerate another second of the pledge drive on ETV Radio (even when I have money to give, and DO give, I can’t abide actually listening to the pledge drive; it’s all those repetitions of the phone number that get to me), and I didn’t like what was on Steve-FM, so I decided to get my first John Boy and Billy fix in a long while.
And that’s when I heard the Tim Wilson song you hear in the video above.
Partial lyrics:
You can go to war when you’re 18
But you can’t buy a beer
You can load missiles on a submarine
But you can’t buy a pistol here
You can breathe chemical weapon fumes
But they don’t want you to smoke
so when you’re shootin’ up a bar in Baghdad, don’t order a rum and coke
OK so far, typical redneck comic lament. But then you get to:
You can be a governor at 21
Or a president at 35
You can be the senator from South Carolina
If you can just stay alive…
This has gone too far. Jon Stewart picking on us is something you’d expect, but when the rednecks start giving us a hard time over our political predilections and idiosyncrasies, maybe we’d better start talking seriously about making some changes.
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I like Tim Wilson. I think he’s got as good an eye as George Carlin had (or better) for the idiocy, hypocrisy, and outright stupidity in our society.