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  YouTuber Pat Finnerty recently posted a video about a song that shouldn't exist. Country duo LoCash, formerly known as LoCash Cowboys, listened to Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely," a song written about the birth of his first child, and decided it was pretty good, but needed more pickup trucks. Early in 2025, this remarkable synergy produced "Isn't She Country?"  Finnerty's material, all of it, is exceptionally funny and insightful. Watch it. "Isn't She Country" is an abomination. To the credit of YouTube commenters, most of the feedback on the LoCash video is negative, with some calling it the worst song ever. Tragically, this isn't true for the same reason Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" isn't the worst song ever: there's still a good melody.  In about half an hour, Finnerty breaks down the creative bankruptcy of LoCash, as well as other recent interpolations by Machine Gun Kelly, Jake Owen, among others....

The world's fastest growing economy is at risk of plunging back into war. South Sudan, an independent nation for fewer than 15 years, and at relative peace for barely five, faces rising tensions after President Salva Kiir confined First Vice President Riek Machar to house arrest.  https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-mediators-arrive-south-sudan-try-rescue-peace-deal-2025-04-02/ What does it mean, then, to have the world's fastest growing economy? In this case, not very much. South Sudan's 2024 growth was driven primarily by oil revenues; the country remains, per person, one of the world's poorest. https://gfmag.com/data/economic-data/poorest-country-in-the-world/  Misleading growth numbers aside, the collapse of stability in South Sudan behooves nobody. New country, old problems.  Thousands of miles to the south, the much stabler nation of Botswana entered a new era with the election of Duma Boko in 2024. Since independence in 1966, the Botswana Democrati...

Nations of the world have yet to learn, and may never learn, not to put evil dullards in charge. Russia and Israel have twice elevated to power a pair of clearly sinister megalomaniacs, this despite relieving each of duty once, only to somehow allow them back into office. In Russia's case, it's possible Vladimir Putin was the guiding hand all along, that Dmitry Medvedev never wielded any real power. Israel, though, appeared to kick Benjamin Netanyahu to the curb around the turn of the century, subsequently electing multiple Prime Ministers of different political parties before deciding, apparently, they liked the jerk.  Not to be outdone, the United States of America has now twice handed the keys to somebody who not only never learned to drive, but also believes learning to do things is for suckers. The key to strong leadership is to be a weak, whiny liar who pretends to know everything.  Every relevant and influential figure within the current United States Government shares ...