The Super Bowl halftime show that I watched tonight

I refused to watch the official Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.  Seeing a grown man in a dress who has burned the American flag on a number of occasions isn't anything I was interested in.

I did not watch the Turning Point halftime alternative either.  I was told that my doing so would be "supporting hate".  Even though those making such accusations are responsible for more hate than anyone else in America right now.  But I digress.

So what did I see instead?

I opened YouTube and started up the legendary In Living Color halftime special from 1992!

From a time when it wasn't demanded of us that we be angry enough to hate others without reason.  It was a better age.  More joyful and innocent.  In Living Color's halftime spectacular was a stroke of genius on the part of Fox Network and 34 years later it's still very entertaining and hilarious.

Watching this was my own little act of defiance against the bitterness suffusing our culture.  It may not have had the viewing numbers tonight, but it was all mine.

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Tragic day for our culture

Before today, Elvis Presley held the record for most singles on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, since it began keeping track of the most popular since in 1958. The King of Rock and Roll boasts 108 entries on the list.

But now, no more. Elvis has been dethroned by something that has 113 singles on Billboard's Hot 100.

Y'know... this is the kind of thing that typified the decay and fall of the Roman Empire, when you think about it.

What has the most singles to make the top one hundred?

Fox's hit show Glee: which has not produce even ONE original song! They've all been covers and "redone" versions of original songs by real musical artists!

(No, I haven't watched Glee except for this season's Christmas episode. But too many trusted sources have told me that it's true: ALL of Glee's songs are re-recordings of songs that were first done by serious musicians.)

I thought that remakes of classic movies were bad enough. This is... worse, far worse, somehow.

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