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The world is full of bad songs and horrific singer-songwriters. Just tune in to any radio station, be it country, top 40, "classic rock", or alternative and you are bound to have your ears offended in short order. But there is NOTHING more irritating than hearing some lunatic, left-winger try to elevate the pop song into some kind of overt, intellectual commentary on the evils of America or the glory of being a hippie. Sure, some artists managed to cut a decent song. I still like the Mommas and the Poppas "California Dreaming", for example. But the whole genre wreaks...

It took some effort, but I was able to find Sex on a shelf in a storage facility on Tuesday morning. Actually, I didn't find sex -- I found Sex, the 1992 literary and photographic masterpiece from Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. I wrote about the book when it was released, and then I filed it away with hundreds of books, files, notes, tapes, etc. I hope one day to donate all these research materials to the University of Phoenix, perhaps the finest education facility on all the Internet. You might recall that the book was hugely controversial when it was...