But that song and vid are beautiful.... Thanks for posting !

I was the one w/ braces and thick glasses....

and like much country music in the 1990s, it could easily have been pop music in the 1970s, as this song could easily be done by Jim Croce, Harry Chapin or James Taylor.

And, of course, I was/am a geek.

Their version is the only one I had ever heard, from Songs of Conscience and Concern.

I guess his version was first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Laugh_at_Me

It's a great version, I think.

......as a folk song. I used to listen to him perform it on acoustic guitar all of the time at the street fairs around the S.F. Bay area, before any of those other people had ever even heard it. But thats OK. I think he's putting his adopted child of color through college on the monthly royalty checks that he receives from that one song.

and defiled in the hands of idiots who never truly grasped it's meaning, nor saw the strings pulling them.

Thanks Koch.

It's origins are truly revolutionary.

Mind if I "borrow" that pic?

I did take the liberty of making a copy of it already.

but schadenfreude can only go so far. Our party (yeah, I caucus with the Democrats though I've chosen socialism as my personal political pov) is being torn apart by the DLC and the liberals. So, it's funny and yet, it isn't so funny.

Very good!

I am so sick of the teabaggers stealing my favorite American flag from my youth! I love this edition as they are so clueless as to the true meaning of this symbol of America!

Puncture their remarkably inflated self image and there's almost nothing left, the skin of a balloon wrapped around a bunch of hot air.