{"id":2712,"date":"2008-06-29T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/29\/my-ipod-wont-let-me-be-preside\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T09:21:05","slug":"my-ipod-wont-let-me-be-preside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/29\/my-ipod-wont-let-me-be-preside\/","title":{"rendered":"My iPod Won’t Let Me Be President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Matt Yglesias, an interesting twist on the shuffle-play “meme”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess…really, who buys a Zune?)
\n2. Press shuffle songs.
\n3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This sounds like fun. Whooosh goes the randomizer…<\/p>\n

And I’m screwed. The first song up is “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”<\/strong> by Bob Dylan. He’s a former hippie radical, much too divisive a figure to be associated with. Also the song is kind of a downer. And “Even the President of the United State sometimes has to stand naked”? Keep your smut to yourself, filthy hippie!<\/p>\n

OK, let’s try again… Next up is “Englishman in New York”<\/strong> by Sting. This one’s out, too– first of all, it’s not even by an American artist, and we can’t have that. More importantly, it’s sympathetic to a guy who admits he’s an alien, and while he claims<\/strong> to be legal, that just smacks of amnesty programs, and those are electoral death.<\/p>\n

One more… “Too Tired”<\/strong> by the Blasters. It’s Americana, at least, but it’s a downer. We can’t have a President who’s too tired to deal with the Issues. Why, he might doze off before bombing anybody!<\/p>\n

This is getting silly. Let’s see… “You Scare the **** Out of Me”<\/strong> by the Frantics? Obscene, Canadian, and afraid. Nope. “Every Generation Got Its Own Disease,”<\/strong> They’re German, and Middle America isn’t ready for socialized medicine. “Come Together”<\/strong> by the Beatles? Please. Buffalo Gals<\/strong> by Bruce Springsteen? Again, he’s a rabble-rousing liberal type. And Buffalo is a city in the Northeast, and we all know that Northeastern liberals are unelectable.<\/p>\n

You know, it might be easier to go through and list the songs that wouldn’t<\/strong> disqualify me from being President…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Matt Yglesias, an interesting twist on the shuffle-play “meme”: 1. Take out your iPod (or Zune, I guess…really, who buys a Zune?) 2. Press shuffle songs. 3. Answer the following: a) How many songs before you come to one that would absolutely disqualify you from being President? b) What is that song? This sounds… Continue reading My iPod Won’t Let Me Be President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-music","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}