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Our local PBS station airs a folk concert during their pledge times. It features the Smothers Bros, Judy Collins, and a host of other lefty-folksie-balding-guitar strummers. The New Christie Minstrels made my wife and I cringe. It was sad to watch them and their audience continue to deny reality that their whimsical, Democrat give-peace-a-chance optimism doesn't work and never will, short of Jesus setting foot on earth and setting things right.

That said, in thirty years, maybe we'll see Tupac, Eminem, and a sagging Lil Kim and Pink doing a concert to raise money for PBS: "Rap Reunion: The stars do their biggest hits." And in the audience will be all these paunchy, vapid rap fans, mouthing the words as their stars spew their venom. And the rest of us normal people will wonder why they were so popular.

Having sat through that concert, you need to put the experience to good use by seeing Christopher Guest's new movie, "A Mighty Wind." I think it was inspired by that very show. I was rolling on the floor watching all those pompous, leftist folkies doing those horrible songs, especially their big finale, when they sang together, "Oh, a mighty wind is blowin'! It's blowin' everywhere!" Then in the second verse, they sang about "lighting up a flare, to ignite the mighty wind that's blowin' everywhere!" I was laughing so hard, tears were flowing, as I thought, "Are they singing about what I think they're singing about? If so, it's the most perfect metaphor for the gaseous '60s folk scare I've ever heard."

There's also a hilarious scene where the Folksmen (Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer) are told to "stretch," so they decide to do a slow, boring song about the Spanish Civil War, but before they do, Shearer has to pompously lecture the audience to make sure they're properly informed about the Spanish Civil War, and after sucking all the air out of the room for God knows how long, they don't have time to do the song.

Save for Tupac, that would indeed be a funny sight! I myself CANNOT imagine any of these people being around in another thirty years!

As for Cosby, I have always admired his work, but not his politics-the same goes for the Smothers Brothers.

-Regards, T.