Walk into almost any coffee house or eating establishment around the country where the radio plays continuously and, odds are, it won’t be long until you hear a Jon Bon Jovi song. And when you hear that song, odds are even better that it’ll carry the message of a romanticized view of young love or that of the hard life faced by blue-collar employees, overlooked and under-appreciated by society.

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In some songs, like “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Bon Jovi manages to bring both messages to bear at once: he speaks both of love and of the struggles of the everyday American:

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union’s been on strike, he’s down on his luck
It’s tough, so tough
Gina works the diner all day
Working for her man, she brings home her pay
For love, mmm, for love

I don’t think I go to far in saying Bon Jovi’s lyrics about the struggles real Americans face are ingrained in generation upon generation of “Tommy’s” and “Gina’s” in this country.  So ingrained, in fact, that some may confuse the message of the songs with the messenger, and assume Bon Jovi really is a bulwark for the common man.

Of course he’s not. Instead, he’s just another liberal who talks the talk, but fails to walk the walk. (more…)

Like millions of other Americans I have been caught up in the Facebook/social networking craze. I believe that Facebook is like a near-death experience except your life passes before your eyes one friend request at a time. I have  been trying to “friend” a lot of people in the news, without much success. There’s been no acceptance of my friend requests from President Obama, Dede Scozzafava, Jeremiah Wright and a host of others. So in order to reach them with some timely advice I am posting some comments here. If you are on their Facebook friend list maybe you could pass them along. 

@ Dede Scozzafava – When you try to stand in the middle of the road you get run over. Thanks for showing where you stand when the heat was on. Go stand in the “has-been” line behind Arlen Specter.

@ Barack Obama - Mr. President, if the trip to Dover wasn’t a photo-op or political why take a photographer along? (more…)