{"id":1534,"date":"2023-04-01T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fools-and-useful-idiots\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:51:46","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fools-and-useful-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fools-and-useful-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fools and Useful Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

These go out this April Fool's Day to all those who voted for Joey B and Kamala the Clown.  WTF were you thinking? You weren't. But most of you are 'nice people.'  Useful idiots are often very nice people. Would that being 'nice' were enough! <\/span><\/p>\n

The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Charles, I'm a Fool to Care<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Winter, Be Careful with a Fool<\/a>. Cultural appropriation by an albino!  White supremacy on stilts!<\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, The Fool on the Hill<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, A Fool Such as I<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ricky Nelson, Poor Little Fool<\/a>.  Those "carefree devil eyes" will do it every time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Brenda Lee, Fool #1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Shirelles, Foolish Little Girl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ricky Nelson, Fools Rush In<\/a>.  "Fools rush in\/Where wise men never go\/But wise men never fall in love\/So how are they to know?" <\/span><\/p>\n

"Wise men say\/Only fools rush in\/ But I can't help\/ Falling in love with you<\/a>. Andrea Bocelli's live in Las Vegas version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elvin Bishop, Fooled Around and Fell in Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kingston Trio, Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Fool<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Evans, Foolish Heart
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Connie Francis, Everybody's Somebody's Fool<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Grateful Dead, Ship of Fools<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

"The fool who persists in his folly becomes wise" (William Blake)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These go out this April Fool's Day to all those who voted for Joey B and Kamala the Clown.  WTF were you thinking? You weren't. But most of you are 'nice people.'  Useful idiots are often very nice people. Would that being 'nice' were enough!  The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fools and Useful Idiots”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}