Rowdy Party Boy Girl Talk

 I can easily see how this might be scoffed at by serious record hounds, which I maybe aspired to once upon a time but haven't been for decades, as too obvious, the samples too popular. Unoriginal: 'Where are the esoteric DJ Shadow samples that nobody knows but me and my cool friends?' But as post-hiphop Frat Rock, witty party music, the copyright vandalism of Girl Talk is absolutely exhilarating dancefloor fodder. It's like Gregg Michael Gillis', aka Girl Talk, loves hiphop, sees a crossover rap and hard rock song like maybe RunDMC/Aerosmith's "Walk This Way (1986) as a fountainhead event in a new electronic hybrid genre, and sets out to produce club mix versions for all his 1990s and 2000s rap favorites. This is about as populist rock & roll in the original 'it's got a good beat and you can dance to it' sense as I've found in the 21st century. The Kids Are Alright, if oversexed as the 16-24 set will tend to be. In short, this is sweaty hot party music. For the excitable of all ages, but with a big parental advisory label. Okie-dokie?  

All Day (2010)

Night Ripper (2006)

Feed the Animals (2008) 

Robert's Court the Worst in American History?

 On this day [August 5] in 1965, the Voting Rights Act became law. It became such a fundamental part of our legal system that Congress repeatedly reauthorized it, by large margins, as recently as 2006.

But in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts struck down the provision of the law requiring that states with histories of voter discrimination get approval from the Department of Justice before they changed their voting laws. Immediately, the legislatures of those states, now dominated by Republicans, began to pass measures to suppress the vote. In the wake of the 2020 election, Republican-dominated states increased the rate of voter suppression, and on July 1, 2021, the Supreme Court permitted such suppression with the Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee decision.

Letters from an American Historian 

A little case history for calling this the worst SCOTUS in US history: 

DC v. Heller, 2008: Declares for first time Second Amendment protects individual right to bear arms. 

Citizen's United v. FEC, 2010: Spurs latest orgy of super PACs and dark money in politics. 

Shelby County v. Holder, 2013: Guts Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination. 

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 2022: Strips women of individual reproductive rights. 

Trump v. United States, 2024: Court gives immunity to POTUS as long as what they do can be construed as part of their "official duties," which then somehow exempted Jan 6 and trying to change votes in Georgia and refusing to relinquish top secret national security documents, etc. So, in other words, POTUS is now above the law. 

There's more but this list is enough to make the case, if you ask me. Republicans, with McConnell and Trump in starring roles, packed the Robert's Court with conservative ideologues and we are now living with the results: fascist, Christian nationalist, plutocratic rule in America. The blueprint: Project 2025. Only rivals, possibly, Taney Court 1836 to 1864, setting up the Civil War, or the Waite Court 1874 to 1888, basically, undermining the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution.