In 1972 when Randy Newman released “Political Science” it could
have been considered satire. I mean—there we were, ass-deep in the Vietnam
morass, a crook in the White House, a presidential election marked by actual
criminal activity, the streets awash in protestors, cops shooting them…
So of course it’s even more to the point right now.
Here he is in a performance in London in 2011, when we were riding
low on Shrub’s endless war. History is a damned psychedelic spiral, I tell you.
And I would not put it past the Kleptocrat to decide—as a farewell
gesture after the election—to indeed drop the big one. Just because he can.
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