It's been a long slog in the bureaucracy lately, and I don't think I'm the only one to feel that way. I recently took some time off and spent a lot of time in the car, where the CD of the journey was some compilation of music from the 1990's. Sure, it's not as good as 1980's music, but it'll do.

To show how much politics has seeped into my consciousness despite my desperate efforts to shut everything out until late October, I started thinking about how mean it would be for someone to put a montage of Hillary Clinton up with the music of Bell Biv Devoe for the background: "Poison". "That girl is POISON.... never trust a big butt and a smile." Mean, but potentially funny. For some reason, I always think of that last line in a Casey Kasem voice.

So after that I wondered whether any of the other songs in the collection would apply to the other candidates. At first Obama seemed a good match for "Hold On", with all the talk about change, but the song always annoyed me, and then I heard "Jump Around". I really like the idea of Obama saying, "I'll serve your ass like John MacEnroe / If your girl steps up, I'm smacking the ho". Quite possibly to Hillary and Bill before the convention.

McCain was a no-brainer: "Justified and Ancient". More for the "ancient", but the image of him driving around in an ice cream van is another interesting mental picture. Hearing it once again I wondered, as I did back in the 1990's, what this fascination with muu muus was all about, but trying to make sense out of pop lyrics is largely a game I cannot win.  ¶ 00:08