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...last track, the slow, electronic blues song Mer Girl, Madonna sings of searching: "I ran and ran/I was looking for me." She comes across a corpse: "I smelt her burning flesh/ Her rotting bones/Her decay." Madonna has suggested the song could have multiple meanings--it could be about AIDS, it could be about her late mother. In any case, the last moment of this CD is what makes it hit home. We have our body. We can empathize. That corpse at the end of Mer Girl could be Madonna, leaving yet another one of her public selves behind...
...read Robert Nozick, a Harvard professor, I think he's a Libertarian or at least a man of the right--to read someone like that or to talk to [William F.] Buckley is to learn that there are aspects of the conservative message that are interesting, moral decay and so forth, although I don't necessarily agree with where they pinpoint...
...other hand, closes the album with a soft, edgy song that is certainly her most personal--the album ends on the painful note "And up to the hill / I ran and I ran / I'm looking there still / And I smell her burning flesh / Her rotting bones / her decay / I ran and I ran / I'm still running today...
...sign that the age of identity politics is over. Jim Sleeper, for instance, writes in Newsday, that "Giuliani's victory is part of a national political realignment based on an emerging consensus: Liberal Democrats' `Rainbow' racial and sexual identity politics and their obsession with `root cause' explanations for social decay made them thunderously wrong about how to fight crime, stimulate employment, provide welfare, and improve public education...
...walk through New Bedford's dingy downtown reveals extent of its decay...