I Don't Like You Either

Needful Diversions: The Large Hadron Collider Rap

Lyrics & credits after the jump:

Department of Viral Videos: 'Some Say the World Will End in Fire'---An Animation of an Asteroid Crashing into Earth

Via.  At least it appears we'll go out to Pink Floyd.

JibJab: 2008 in Review

Needful Diversions (For Pagans Only): Atheistic Elves Get All Elfed Up, Sacrilegiously Dance Xmas Jigs to Traditional Xmas Tunes!

Department of Valedictions: This Final Christmas Under Bush, Give the Gift of Satire to a Fellow Progressive: "Songs of the Bushmen" by Harry Shearer

 Though it was nominated for a Grammy, we just don't think there's been nearly enough screaming about Harry Shearer's musical send-up of the Bush administration's main players.  If you've had all the peace and good will you can handle, you might enjoy a bit of black comedy, in diverse musical stylings. 

If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for a progressive friend, we don't see how you could do better than this album (available at I-Tunes):

Attackerman: "Dey Know (Blago)"

Like Ackerman said, he's so gangster.  Via HuffPost.

Dept of Valedictions: Bush Dances (April 25, 2007)

Lest we forget.

Joe the Plumber Rips on McCain; Thinks Palin is "the Real Deal"

"Who in the what now?"  I hear you thinking.  "Joe the---oh, you mean this guy?"

No:  Joe.  JOE WURZELBACHER. Joe the Plumber?  McCain's pal?  Remember him?  Sure you do.  Big block-headed guy---claims to be a plumber--- summoned up out of obscurity by McCain during one of the debates?   Nothing? 

Dept of Valedictions: Rove Plans to Call Out Bush Haters in His New Book; PLUS!! Bonus Harry Shearer Music Video ("Rove" Sings "Turd Blossom Special")

We've been trying very hard not to think about the "Bush legacy project," since its very existence defies common sense, decency, geometry, and reality.  We're afraid of getting sucked into some GOP black hole of revisionism and coming out on the other side in a world like Camazotz in A Wrinkle in Time where everything is controlled by "Bush's Brain" and all the moms stay home, the dads all go to work, and everyone does everything in exactly the same way and at the same time, all the time. And (channeling Berke Breathed now) is compelled every Sunday to attend the Christianist Church of his or her choice (no Quakers on Bush World).

Needful Diversions: Remembering Odetta Holmes

One great musician, gone from us on Tuesday.  

Dept of Valedictions: Bush Rocks Out ("It's the End of the World As We Know It')

And he feels FINE! 

Follow-up to Bush classic "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

Needful Diversions: A Charlie Brown Christmas ("Hey Ya")

Via  Skippy, an internet Christmas special:
Yeah. We needed that.

Dept of Valedictions: Bush is Still in Office for 50 Days, So Let's Watch His Cover of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Again

The High Cost of Every Day Low Prices

Time to resurrect this prophetic Jib-Jab song from 05.

Big Box Mart | Funny Jokes at JibJab

Powerline: "Undisciplined" Speaker Obama Should Take Precise and Careful Speaker Bush as a Model

by Teh Nutroots | Ha ha ha ha ha ha!  I love watching them clutching madly at straws, only to end up sticking them in their hair.  Via Sadly, No!, here's Powerline's latest air brick:

The Daily Show: Has McCain Let His Exasperation Turn to Sarcasm and Derisive Air Quotes?

McCain nails it, after stumbling over the names of Secretaries of State who endorse him and uses air quotes--"or as we call them, "dick fingers""--to mock Obama's environmental concerns.

Sarah Palin Laments "Bridge to Nowhere"

McCain's Slow Burn During an Interview....PLUS "The Angry John McCain Song"!

by Teh Nutroots | McCain vs. the editorial board at The Des Moines Register [h/t M. Ambinder] 

Colbert Nation: A Black Bear Puppet Wants the Sierra Club to Put It Out of Its Misery, Sings Theme Song from M*A*S*H

Stephen is a pretty good puppet master....

Needful Diversions----"Glory" from Pippin: A Tribute to War

Blue Stockings | This is Ben Vereen doing it Fosse-style in a celebration of war (from the seventies musical "Pippin.")   I loves me some Ben Vereen. Charlemagne, you lead us on to power!   

This one goes out to McCain, Palin, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonazalez, and all neocons wherever they are.. 

Colbert Interviews Jackson Browne About His Lawsuit Against McCain for Using "Running on Empty" in an Attack Ad on Obama

PART ONE.  Damn Republicans, walking with their big Gucci loafers all over other people's property [rights]!

Project "Make McCain Exciting": Blue Suede Shoes

Ride the Wayback Pony: The George W Bush Singers Sing "The State of the Union"

Inspirational!  From "Songs in the Key of W"

Needful Diversions: The Mean Kitty Song

Because after the horror of aerial hunting, I needed to see this again:

Bush's Legacy Embraced by McCain: A Party For Which the End Justifies the Lies?

by IDLYE | Steve Benen writes: "John McCain was presented with a choice: lose the election or lose his honor. As has become painfully clear, McCain chose the latter."  He's comforted that others have reached the same conclusion.  I call that "cold comfort." 

Anyway, it's only a symptom of a much graver disorder.

At WaPo, E.J. Dionne marvels at what the GOP's apparent comfort in distorting facts---and the public's willingness to let them justify the end by the means---tells us about the state of political discourse, where a lie is as good as the truth as long as you agree with the objective behind it.  This is the true legacy of the Bush administration, and it scares me way more than McCain does.

Needful Diversions: Spongebob Sings Eminem; Gangsta Teletubbies

"Just Lose It"

MORE:

McCain Campaign Ignores Heart's Request to Stop Using Their Songs

by The Puppet Mistress | McCain's campaign says they paid for "all necessary licenses."  (Political Ticker)   Hmmm. After a strongly worded protest by the Wilson sisters, has the band come to terms with it?  "Heart gets headlines and royalties. Part of that money, said [former guitarist Roger Fisher], would be heading to the Arizona senator’s opponent: "With my contribution to Obama's campaign, the Republicans are now supporting Obama," he told Reuters. (Political Ticker)

More here from Memeorandum.

McCain 'n Bush: BFFs?

Harry Shearer: "Tiny Guns Make Big Trouble" (Judith Owen Sings)

Channeling Shirley Bassey....."                 Life gives you clues that you can use....Next time we'll connect the dots." 

How Many Houses Does McCain Have Again?

H/t TBogg