Going Off My Medication

Going off My Medication

Johnny's running up and down the stairs,
He's jumping on the walls and dancing on the chairs.
He won't watch TV the way he's supposed to do,
He's climbing trees just like a monkey in the zoo.

Send an alarm across the Nation,
Johnny's gone off his medication.

Johnny and Sally, they broke out of school,
And they turned the town fountain to a wading pool.
Oh six years old is too young for failure,
I'm afraid he'll wind up living in a trailer.

Send an alarm across the nation,
Johnny's gone off his medication.

I'm gonna adopt a new attitude,
Throwing out my Prozac and my Quaalude.
Think it's time for me to come clean,
Spitting out my Zoloft and my Thorzine.

Send an alarm across the Nation,
I think I'm going of my medication.

I think I'm going off my medication,
I THINK I'M GOING OFF MY MEDICATION.
Send an alarm across the Nation,
I think I'm going off my medication.


WARNING:  The words of this song are not to be confused with medical advice.

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Lounge Lizard

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Lounge Lizard

Let me be your one hit wonder,
I promise I won't stay too long.
Before someone steals my thunder,
Let me sing my lounge lizard song.

Let me be your lounge lizard sweetheart,
Let me buy you another beer.
Though I be a little bit creepy,
Believe me darling you've nothing to fear.

We lounge lizards have three instincts,
So the reptile experts say.
First we head for for food and drinks,
Then it's sex and run away.

Let me be your lounge lizard sweetheart,
Let me slither up your leg.
'Cause I'm not too old too crawl,
And I'm not too young to beg.

So you're shocked at my suggestions,
That we make it in my car.
May I ask you just two questions,
What are you doing in my bar?

And might you be my lounge lizard sweetheart?
That's not such a bad thing to be.
Leastways you'll never be lonely,
When you lounge around with me.

Ukraine, Russia's Canada.

Imagine if Canada had a new Prime Minister unfriendly to the USA, that wished to join a defense pact with Russia, and fanatic French speakers proposed banning English in schools and government.  The US would be alarmed of course, and no matter what action we took, we would regard this as a horrible disaster, and if we invaded Canada, that would be absurd weakness rather than strength.

This is the current position of Russia in Ukraine, and thoughtful people understand why Barack Obama can't copy the absurd chest pumping paranoia of some Republican politicians.  Vladimir Putin might be a savage brute, but he finds himself on the brink of complete defeat, he believes Russia's enemies have seduced away a nation historically wed to his own, and like a wife beater, thinks violence will persuade, even as the savagery makes the split final.  Like a scorned husband, Putin blames the split on lies of the seducer, and not his own deficiencies.  Like a straying wife, the Ukraine wants the prosperity of the happy family next door, the European Union, far more than the EU and the US want to take her in.

We must remember that Russia cares very much about Ukraine, and most Americans likely couldn't find it on the map.  Russia now loses it's best friend in the world due to years of shockingly inept policy.  This result is not a US victory, there are only two groups that see this as a fight between the US and Russia, those who believe Russian propaganda, and those who believe US Conservative propaganda.  Both these groups believe in their own national humiliation and defeat.  These misguided ideas of national grievance mix the traditional witches brew of war.  Let the cool heads prevail.  They say Obama lacks passion, I thank God, and the electorate for that.