Y'know how, when you're 14 and desperately in love, every song directly bears on your life? Well, I'm wicked old, as we say in Massachusetts, so I find myself blasting around listening to lyrics that all, somehow, bear on Afghanistan.
So, here's a bit of "Up the Wolves" by the Mountain Goats, called to my attention first by a recent episode of "The Walking Dead" (go on, haters, hate, but I'm an OZF - Original Zombie Fan - and once shook George Romero's hand) ...
"I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim,
Scope out every angle of unfair advantage.
I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges -
It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage."
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