On a music tip:

Here's a band called I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
(or SOB for short).

In this review they get called “possibly the most unabashedly political band in the country” and almost everyone who catches a live show calls them one of the best rock and roll bands they’ve ever seen.

They have a wide variety of songs to choose from for this post:

Dear Mr. Heston (about guns)
Rachel Corrie (about the protester killed in Israel)
American Fuck Machine (read the lyrics)

But I’m choosing Westboro Baptist Church. It’s a simple song and to the point.

Click here to listen to the song (on the left click on “Westboro Baptist Church”)

I’m not posting the lyrics on the blog because I don’t want my Grandma to read them. So everyone but Grandma click here and scroll down (it’s the 10th song).

The lyrics are a little dirty (ok a lot) but no one deserves it more than Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, you know, the people that protest funerals (of people who’ve died of AIDS) with signs that say “God hates fags” and other hateful things.

Let’s talk about the rhetoric in the song. What do you think they’re trying to persuade us to think? (not “do”, thank goodness) What kind of an approach are they taking? Who is the audience? Is the style and arrangement of the song important?

The last two verses are my favorite.