Token Liberal

I've Got Things on My Mind...

SOMEWHERE THINKIN' (TL) -- I've got things on my mind, like ...

Oklahoma

With all this talk about Texas seceding, perhaps it's Oklahoma that should consider severing itself from these United States. The state went overwhelmingly for John McCain in the last election. Not a single county in Oklahoma voted for President Obama. One newspaper in the state refused to even note that Obama won, choosing instead to highlight how its residents cast their ballots for McCain.

Over the years, through words and votes, Sen. Jim Inhofe has established himself as the most close-minded, ignorant, mean-spirited right-winged knucklehead in Congress. Then this week, the Congressman Formerly Known as Sensible, Rep. Tom Coburn, apparently decides Inhofe is getting too many fawning editorials back home and so he tosses a hand grenade in the credit card bill in the form of an amendment making it okay to take guns into what is statistically one of the safest places in America: Our national parks.

Adam Lambert

This is what passes for rebellion in America these days? Seriously?

I watched the American Idol finale and was struck not by what I am told was a stunning upset, but rather by the overall lameness of the entire enterprise. I think the real purpose of American Idol is to create personalities to populate future reality shows about "where-are-they-now" has-beens. 

And the beat goes on ...

Dick Cheney

Speaking of has-beens ... we liked you better when you were in your undisclosed location, Dick.

Weekend Whimsy: The Future of Entertainment

SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE (TL) -- Aside from Bruce Willis' robot hairstyle, this looks decent...

SURROGATES trailer in HD

Then again ... I also think this looks good. Remember when 1980 was the future?

Daily Doodle: National Parks Gun Range

SOMEWHERE DOODLING (TL) -- Rep. Tom Coburn shoots his way into the credit card bill with an amendment allowing people to tote guns in America's National Parks. And this is Oklahoma's sensible congressman ...

Let's Get Ready to RUMMMMMBLE!!!!

SOMEWHERE APPLAUDING (TL) -- I wouldn't normally advise anyone to subject themselves to Fox News ... but here's a clip in which Jesse "The Body" Ventura smacks down Sean Hannity that is must-see TV.

Daily Doodle: The Abominable Mr. Cheney

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues

SOMEWHERE STILL WALKING OUT (TL) -- On this week in 1963, Bob Dylan was slated to make his first national television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Dylan planned playing the politically charged "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."

The CBS suits decided the song was unacceptable for broadcast and asked him to pick another song. Dylan declined and famously walked out on the show.

I figure there's two kinds of people in the world ... those who would pick a different song and play and those who would walk out.

Weekend Whimsy: Ebony and Ivory and Barcaloungers

SOMEWHERE FINDING COMMON GROUND (TL) -- I was going to leave it at Elvis Costello ... until DMN editorial writer Michael Landauer hipped me to this groundbreaking commercial ...

Weekend Whimsy: Elvis Lives

SOMEWHERE RAISING CAIN'S (TL) -- Libber (yes, that's what I'm calling readers now) Phil Bacharach knows Token Liberal loves him some Elvis Costello and there's no better place to see him than the legendary Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. 

Worlds collide in September when Costello plays Cain's in support of his upcoming batch o' songs, "Secret, Profane and Sugarcane." 

The only thing that would make this any cooler is some Tony Millionaire ("Sock Monkey") line art.

Token Liberal spent a couple great years living in Honolulu and I've got the itch for a return to the islands. Until that happens, I'll have to make due with a mix-tape of homegrown Hawaiian island reggae ... pono!

Irie Sensation

Natural Vibrations

I'm Yours

Ten Feet

Chasing Dreams

Inner Session

Pure Aloha

Marty Dread and Hawaiian Homeboy

Think Positive

The Lambsbread

Fight the Power

Natural Vibrations

Midnight Hour

SDIB

You and I

Natural Vibrations

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Whatcha Gonna Do?

Jah Works

Clowns

SOMEWHERE SKEPTICAL OF THE TEARS OF A CLOWN, WHEN THERE'S NO ONE AROUND (TL) -- MFD alerts the Token Liberal to a Flickr gallery of Republican clowns. Good stuff. One of the clowns, Louisiana Boy Blunder Bobby Jindal, featured below. 

Oklahoma Legislature Bans Mexican Pigs, Pig Latin

By Ron Stahl

Special Contributor

OKLAHOMA CITY (TL) -- The Oklahoma Legislature is set to bar Mexican pigs from working in the state and banning Pig Latin from official documents. From now on, only Pig English will be used in official business. 

One lawmaker, who did not wish to be identified, said, "We are determined to keep these foreign oinkers from becoming breakfast food, taking that job away from Oklahoma swine." 

The measure flu through the Senate.