And All She Wants to Do Is Dance (and Foment a Revolution)

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Yet another post in my series on song lyrics... I have nothing too profound this time, except to ask: Have you ever listened carefully to this Don Henley song?!?

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  1. John Goes8:41 AM

    Bob, you really got to work on your blogging skills.

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  2. Bob Murphy12:23 PM

    Whatchoo talkin bout, Willis?

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  3. John Goes7:06 PM

    The only time you ever blog is for singing related matters. We hunger for your economic and political insights. This blog has a lot of potential, but frankly you are slacking. Gene is doing a great job of keeping it going, but I'm just saying, maybe an economics post about a song maybe, analyzing the marginal utility of the next drum solo. Stuff like that.

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  4. Bob Murphy1:49 PM

    Yes'm massah.

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  5. gcallah6:05 PM

    Don't you go sassin' John, boy!

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