Day: October 20, 2006

Bill Clinton:

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results. This new Bob Woodward book, “State of Denial,” is well named, but I think it’s important to point out that if you are an ideologue, denial is an essential part of your political being, whichever side. Listen to me. You’ve got to — because if you’re an ideologue, you’ve got your mind made up. So when an inconvenient pops up, you have to be in denial. It has to be a less significant fact.

As Waxy.org notes, “once upon a time, we had a coherent, thoughtful President.”

If there’s any justice in the universe, we will again someday.

“Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied,
Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,
Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors.”
– Ezra Pound

  1. And the band begins to play
    “Yellow Submarine” by the Beatles, guessed by Betty
  2. Scarlet billows start to spread
    “Mack the Knife” by Bobby Darin, guessed by Kim
  3. You spurn my natural emotions
    “Ever Fallen in Love” by Nouvelle Vague (orig. Buzzcocks)
  4. Then I think I’ll study criminal law
    “I’m Gonna Always Love You” from The Muppets Take Manhattan, guessed by Kim
  5. Nrsingadeva Jaya Nrsingadeva
    “Govinda” by Kula Shaker
  6. The police are gonna hafta come and get me
    “Straight Outta Compton” by Nina Gordon (orig. N.W.A.)
  7. I forget the movie song
    “Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits, guessed by Sharon
  8. Be one of the comfortable people“Welcome” by the Who, guessed by Betty and Kim
  9. It’s not the way you smile that touched my heart
    “Baby It’s You” by the Shirelles (or the Beatles), guessed by Kim
  10. Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
    “Summertime” by Ella Fitzgerald (or others), guessed by RichterCa

It’s the Friday Random Guess 10. See last week’s for tips on how it’s not done. (Were they really that obscure?) Anyway, best of luck!