Beverly, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember seeing so much RED here in the last decade, and airplanes spiraling out of the sky, here in the state of Minnesota, my color chart has turned shit purple. Jessica Lange even famously rolled up the carpets here, after her tires were slashed for what I assume was a DICK AND BUSH SUCK IT bumper sticker. She had that much resolve, and money, to move to a state bluer than this, or simply resume residence in one of her mansions elsewhere, and pretend it never happened. Maybe it is more that real Minnesotans are just past caring about their personal property and safety period, as the weather makes them simply not give a damn. It's dangerous to try reading that much philosophy at cruising speeds anyway.

This might be a separate thread, but why does the conservative right, almost exclusively, embrace bad pop country that sounds like shit to everyone else, even people who like pop in its other forms? It must relate back to that sordid chapter on the Dixie Chicks. Is the same vein, why do they seem to resist the idea of whole, local foods? Wouldn't that be keeping government out of food? How did good old country, or honkey tonk, turn into what they now call country music? Why/how did these people make the transition and not realize how incredibly awful the new stuff is? And why don't they get sick of songs about beer, their trucks, having a good old time? It'd be like if you ate dog food every day, because there were so many songs about how good dog food is, and before long, you had yourself convinced that dog food, crappy cold American beer, and pop country were the greatest things on earth. I think out of all the modern American mysteries, this one is the most puzzling, yet the implications are shocking.

That's because liberals like myself are in it for the sheer entertainment value Jadiaz, then sometimes when a song is okay, we're pleasantly surprised. But I'll bet we account for thirty percent of their listenership. For the same reason you log on here, because you love to hate it. And how did you know these trucks were driven by left leaning folks anyway? Was there a bumper sticker that said "I'm a Liberal! Go Ahead and Key My Car" We're talking percentages here. For prosperity, I'll add, much of what I hear on NPR is just as bad for the same reasons, and what passes as brilliant there, also sounds like shit to me, as people are relying more on machines to do the work of creating for them. I also don't understand why PBS, during pledge drive, turns to music that surely, even the baby boomers were tired of thirty years ago, when they were being sold then as 'oldies but goodies.' But I sincerely doubt there are as many 'liberals' clammering to the beat of wangly dangly, beer drinking buddy music while driving their meat tenderizing F-350s, and blaming Obama for high gas prices, yet we won't know for sure without further studies. The reason these silly country stations, who rarely play the classics, are able to stay in business is because conservatives never turn the dial, except maybe for some fathead advice from Rush. Or, once a blue moon, maybe to a classic rock station to hear some Foreigner. These country stations, since you asked, keep selling air time for the same reason as crappy american beer sells best when it's sold as being the coldest, because of something called advertising, and it numbs your brain. But just because something is advertised, doesn't make it good. Merely disguising poor flavors, or music with an overwhelming ad campaign that does your thinking for you, doesn't make it good. For the same reasons that some spoiled puss whose daddy got him the job of making decisions for everyone, isn't necessarily right. So when I want the real stuff, I turn to the classics. Artists like Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins, or George Jones. People who knew how to write music that doesn't give you the willies, or cause you to soil yourself from the sheer brainlessness of it.