Half Fox and Half Free, Redux

Seems like an apt time to bring this one out of the 2010 storage locker, because as I said the last time I rotated this to the top of my play list, "looking at the eye-melting madness that now runs freely and openly through the Right and the jaw-dropping "Both Sides Do It" denialism that continues to infest most of our media from top to bottom, it has never been more obviously true that we as a nation cannot endure permanently half-Fox and half-free."

And let's face it, not a damn thing has really changed since then.

Our New Liberal Anthem:



The Magnetic Fields -- "You must be out of your mind"

3...2...1...

You think I'll run-not-walk to you?


Why would I want to talk to you?


I want you crawling back to me
down on your knees

Yeah

Like an appendectomy

sans anesthesia

If you think you can leave the past behind



You must be out of your mind



If you think you can simply press rewind

You must be out of your mind, son
You must be out of your mind

You want what you turned off, turned on



You call it sunset, now it's dawn



You can't go 'round just saying stuff

because it's pretty


And I no longer drink enough

to think you're witty

If you think you can leave the past behind
You must be out of your mind
if you think you can simply press rewind
You must be out of your mind, son
You must be out of your mind

You want to kindle that old flame


I don't remember your real name



It must be something scandalous
Lurks in your shadows
If you need a Santa Claus

To buy your gallows

If you think you can leave the past behind



You must be out of your mind



If you think you can simply press rewind

You must be out of your mind, son
You must be out of your mind

You must be out of your mind, son
You must be out of your mind.


I first heard this song today and knew I had to move quickly, before that speedy bastid Andy Cobb turned the concept into an award-winning short film with Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Balaban, Brent Spiner, Jorja Fox, Ben Gazzara, Dame Judi Dench, Naveen Andrews, Luke Wilson, Bruce Boxleitner, Winona Ryder, Thandie Newton and Andy Dick.