Wait, I forget, how does O-embarrassing correspond to real embarrassing again?
Or perhaps he just wanted to push his own embarrassing post further down the page.
You're being harsh on McMurtry.
Though one has to admit some people might be put in mind. If they were squares.
That is a great song. A lot of his newest album has overly-cutesy lyrics, and he looks exactly like Weird Al Yankovic, but it's worth it for that song and "See the Elephant".
I think the other protest song of the current millennium is Josh Ritter's "Girl in the War", although I may be overlooking one or two.
#5: Xiu Xiu's `Save our Troops' comes to mind...
I'd pull for a combo of Weird Al, Frank Zappa and Don Imus.
I saw the performance at the AMA here in Nashville and it was excellent. The crowd was very stoked that he won, and the song was very powerful to hear in a room that probably contained some of the people he disdains in the lyrics.