Joe Scarborough scored a big hit in his feud with Donald Trump by releasing this Country-Western song, mocking Trump’s softening his stance on deporting illegal immigrants.

2:48 video

My Yale classmate and Chicago Law Professor Charles Lipson forwarded this morning what he described “as the best song ever.” Maybe not the absolute best, but definitely amusing.

This came out last month, but I only saw it yesterday. Hillary Clinton, woman of the people. Country Western Hillary. Farmers, cowboys, and Harley owners for Hillary! This is the funniest damn video I’ve seen in a long time.

Hat tip to Tristyn Bloom.

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania: South Main Street in the 1940s, a bit before my time.

My high school and elementary school classmate Norman Gregas posted on Facebook this Iris Dement nostalgic tribute to a vanished small town, particularly applicable in the case of our hometown whose treatment at the hands of time and economic change was exceptionally destructive and cruel.

You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you’re not drunk anymore, and your hound dog comes back to life.

–Elmore Leonard, Pronto: A Novel.

One of my Facebook friends linked this cheery number today.

Via Theo.

“When I was just a baby, my momma told me: ‘Son, don’t ever trust a Marxist.’ Now we’ve elected one.”

Hat tip to Theo.