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...runs the risk of losing touch with voters who associate abortion with grisly details. Voters may instinctively vote for the candidate who seems to be able to erase abortion from the American consciousness altogether simply by erasing it from his campaign speeches. But in the words of that sixties folk song, "you don't know what you've got till its gone," voters may wake up one day to realize that abortions, far from being banished from the American vocabulary, are being performed in back alleys. Like our mothers and fathers, they will know someone who died from an illegal...
...Sweetest Little Park in Baseball" they are building in downtown San Francisco. In fact, since February, the team and the phone company have coordinated a "Park Pitch Road Trip," through which the ball that will used for the first pitch in the new stadium has been on tour. The folk of Sacramento, Chico and Berkeley have had a chance to throw the ball and symbolically take part in the opening. The celebration will culminate Opening Day in the new park, when a "Pitch Relay" will deliver the ball, Olympic-like, through the streets of San Francisco...
...music business, the Mekons have redefined their sound yet again. Formed in 1979, this British group began as a punk band, but Journey to the End of the Night, their first full-length release in two years, retains few of those roots. Experimenting with a blend of folk and alternative sound, the Mekons bring melancholic, brooding melodies to light. Unfortunately, the album's new material falls short of the expectations one would have of a band with such history...
...final thought is that all these folk, for whatever reason of territorial logic, supported Bush for President. If these territories insist on supporting George W., then they at least would have to deal with him being their Commander-in-Chief...
...Folk Erotica: Celebrating Centuries of Erotic Americana is a compilation of sexual paintings, drawings, carvings, and other arousing art. Those like "Cowboy Blow-Job," created mainly of tin cans and featuring a cowboy receiving a ten-gallon hat's worth of oral delight from his favorite ranchhand, fancifully combine fantasy and humor capable of eliciting an hearty "Yee-haw!" from an appreciative audience...