Sacha Korn is an East German-born musician, manager, consultant, and record label owner whose opinions — about the EU’s propaganda and false promises, about how children have been raised to apologize for being German, about the dehumanizing of regular folks who hold non-state-approved views by calling them “right” — have caused the Reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy to be tossed around by his critics.
After Google-translating numerous articles about him I found no statements of his that would justify the accusation; he did invite a collective gasp when he said he’s at the point where doesn’t even know what the N-word actually means anymore due to its overuse (sorta like the word “racist” over here), and he’s been accused not deleting blog comments that his accuser deemed offensive, etc., but that’s about it.
Korn, for his part, says he considers his views to be neither left or right, but rather those of a generation “that has no desire to be f***ed.”
Anyway, I really just wanted to play Korn’s techno-pop-ish and flat (like a millpond) version of the Deutsche Nationalhymne, expanded to include all three verses. It’s like “O Canada”, but it’s German, eh?
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As any male Siberian hamster can tell you, it’s now officially fall. Tonight, to commemorate the autumn equinox, we present the late Eva Cassidy’s truly lovely interpretation of the très melancholy classic Autumn Leaves.
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Tonight’s tips music features the most famous guitar riff in rock ‘n’ roll history, and a sound that was to become a musical template in the decades to follow: Here’s Chuck Berry – who’ll be 87 next month – playing and singing on the original recording of Johnny B. Goode.
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Edythe Wright’s musical career, all of it spent with the great trombonist Tommy Dorsey’s groups, began when she was a 21-year-old rank amateur and ended just four years later in 1939, but her distinctive, husky, alto voice – she didn’t exactly sound like she fell off of a turnip truck the day before — lives on in over a hundred recordings. A lively number from her work with Dorsey’s dixieland combo Clambake Seven was one of the Tips music selections some months ago;  tonight, backed by his full orchestra, Wright sings a romantic tune called You and I Know.
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Tonight, we learn how to make a potato launcher.
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Who can give a bailout / tell us to behave / and make the Founding Fathers roll over in the graves? The Government Can..♫
h/t Larry
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips you got yer Dead Skunk in the middle of the road.
Written and performed by Loudon Wainwright III.
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Who doesn’t love yodeling? Sit down, it’s a rhetorical question. Tonight, Bernese yodeling sensation Melanie Oesch, backed by the rest of the Swiss family Oesch, belts out the Ku-Ku Jodel.
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“You know what I want? A Minneapolis mayor that really represents the people.”

I believe the candidate you’re looking for, ma’am, is Jeffrey Alan Wagner.
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Songwriter/vocalist John Fogarty of Bay Area rockers CCR appears to have a really serious thing for Suzie Q.
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Apparently some people don’t understand that it’s a rhetorical question:

“Wisconsin’s third-largest school district says no thanks to union representation.”

By an almost two-to-one margin.

Tonight, excitement and confusion and crazy hijinks reign in India as Tarzan Comes to Delhi.
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Tonight’s tips video was posted four days ago but only for an hour or so due to a technical issue. Time to get back up on that pony and ride: Here’s Michael Martin Murphy giving a few lessons in Cowboy Logic.
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Even now, 81 years later, Lancashire lass Elsie Carlisle is still singing sweetly that The Clouds Will Soon Roll By.
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Tonight Lester Flatt, the Flatt half of Flatt & Scruggs, sees hippies in dorsal view and Can’t Tell the Boys From the Girls.
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We already know that the Pope wears a funny hat; tonight, we find out what bears do in the woods.
h/t Neil
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The blog’s posting software went down last night, so no updates were possible for a few hours. Your reader tips are welcome here. I’m on the road for much of today, but I’m certain the guest bloggers will keep you all up to speed.

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips stellar vocalist Darlene Edwards, backed by her pianist husband Jonathan, who was born with two right hands, spreads her lovin’ arms across the land with a stirring and unforgettable rendition of I Am Woman.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we forget all about Syria and the Middle East as we listen to some late-antique happy sounds V repulice ČSR (“In the Republic of Czechoslovakia“).
Oooh, look at those…borders.
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Some historic events are familiar to people all around the world, and will be remembered forever, but other events are historic only locally, and only for a few years. Tonight, courtesy of the NFB’s Vignette Series, we get an outsider’s view of that latter kind of history: Filmed in Greenstreet, Saskatchewan, here’s Larry Bauman’s short documentary The Move.
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