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September 18, 2008

Spanish Bums

John Cole has links at the bottom of a recent post to info on John McCain’s coming war on Spain. I blame Prime Minister Zapatero for having such an anti-American name. Why couldn’t he have a normal, pro-freedom surname like "Maliki" or "Musharraf?"

Posted by Jim Henley @ 7:39 am, Filed under: Main

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7 Responses to “Spanish Bums”

  1. Comment by Uncle Kvetch —
    September 18, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

    Linky no worky.

    Spanish Bums

    Heh. “Koka Kola” popped up on the iPod yesterday and I was struck by how timely it was. What’s next, I wonder?

  2. Comment by Jim Henley —
    September 18, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

    Yglesias has propounded the theory that Clash songs explain absolutely everything . . .

  3. Comment by Michael —
    September 18, 2008 @ 2:48 pm


    Yglesias has propounded the theory that Clash songs explain absolutely everything . . .

    There’s a reason that Joe Strummer is the only man who matters.

  4. Comment by bdr —
    September 18, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

    Spanish songs in Andalucia
    The shooting sites in the days of ‘39
    Oh, please, leave the vendanna open
    Fredrico Lorca is dead and gone
    Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
    The black cars of the Guardia Civil
    Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
    I’m flying in a DC 10 tonight

  5. Comment by Idi Amin's Last Meal —
    September 18, 2008 @ 5:53 pm

    I think Mc Cain is more of a Kix fan. “Make love to you all nite long, listening to atomic bombs, ‘tomic bombs, ‘tomic bombs”, the song goes.

    (Might not be “listening”, but is how I hear it.)

    Also, the Clash have only one listenable album: Sandinista!. It’s a bit like Afghan Whigs & Cat Power, really; get away from Black Love & The Greatest, respectively, & it’s nothing good. Likewise, the further from “Washington Bullets”, the worse.

  6. Comment by Thoreau —
    September 18, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

    “Spanish Bums”

    I thought this thread would be about nude beaches.

  7. Comment by Idi Amin's Last Meal —
    September 18, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

    I’ll take you to Ibiza sometime, Thor. But I won’t guarantee that we won’t run into an ecstacy-trippin’, semi-nude Larry Craig at a foam party. (That Tiesto remix of the Singin’ Senators, by the way, is tops.) Tiny bubbles, indeed.

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