Somehow New York Times columnist Paul Krugman seems a terrible subject for a song.
Yet, Loudon Wainwright III, who admits to being a Times fan, performed "The Krugman Blues" in New York's Madison Square Park a few weeks ago:
I read the New York Times, that's where I get the news. Paul Krugman's on the Op Ed page, that's where I get the blues.
In Wainwright's view, given the current state of the economy, "I guess that I identify with that pissed off look on [Krugman's] face" (video embedded below the fold):
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If it doesn't work
July 3, 2009 - 11:54 ET by sevenLearn and don't do more of what doesn't work. Obama has pushed business confidence into the sewer. Until we build that back, it won't work. How about doing something for business? After the hatchet job on automotive, hatchet job on banks and lining up healthcare for the scalpel, no wonder business hides from the job killer in the whitehouse. Krugman is wrong.
Good one, NS
July 3, 2009 - 12:02 ET by BlondeThe Paul Krugman Blues, indeed.
I hope he fails, too.
Dead Skunkrugman
July 3, 2009 - 12:16 ET by Jack BauerWhy bother when Wainwright could have adapted his famous DEAD SKUNK...
We must have posted at the
July 3, 2009 - 12:18 ET by ricklailWe must have posted at the same time. Great minds do think alike!
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rick -- ha! Now you can see
July 3, 2009 - 12:24 ET by Jack Bauerrick -- ha! Now you can see my minor tweeks.
I missed it the first time.
July 3, 2009 - 12:27 ET by ricklailI missed it the first time. Real good. You might have a hit there Jack!
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The mind is a terrible thing to share
July 4, 2009 - 08:31 ET by FastEdwhen I saw the headline, I could only think of the same thing, and my intention was to name Dead Skunk - when a lot younger, my wife and I would spend time at a neighborhood diner, one that had a jukebox, and we would always play Dead Skunk, for no other reason to "goose" the other diners - (how low brow of us).
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
London Wainwright
July 3, 2009 - 12:16 ET by ricklailHey this is the guy who made a hit out "Dead Skunk."
SING ALONG
This song was #1 for 6 weeks in Little Rock, AK
Dead Skunk
[Loudon Wainwright III]
Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!
C'mon stink!
You got it!
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
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Krug gives anybody the
July 3, 2009 - 13:47 ET by bigtimerKrug gives anybody the blues just by looking at him...when he opens his mouth he ensures it...well he does his best...I myself find the little mental midget comical.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Wasn't this the guy who
July 3, 2009 - 14:49 ET by fitzfongWasn't this the guy who played Karp's old man on "UnDeclared"? Another underrated well-written, well-acted show that never quite made it.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Fitz, that quote from Mr. Best is thr best one on the entire
July 3, 2009 - 15:12 ET by Nortonalecsite!!!!
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."~David St. Hubbins
Krugman stinks like a dead
July 3, 2009 - 16:34 ET by nadadhimmiKrugman stinks like a dead skunk in the middle of the road.