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His brilliance on Palin’s hypocritical statement regarding Hollywood and the Second Amendment, on the media being corrupted by profit as its mission, on capitalism as God, on the overall stupidity of Americans, and on the attitude behind fear in the police state has more wisdom packed into 10 of these minutes than you will get anywhere you look today.

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Awwww, isn’t she cute? Those big doey eyes, that sad puzzled look. All Photoshopped. She’s unlucky in love. Three-quarters of the 13 songs on this disc have the words “cry” or “tear” in them. At least three of them also lament the telling of lies, sigh, a great testimony to hypocrisies inherent to the title, no doubt.

So, what exactly is going on here?

I bought this disc from Facebook’s recommendation that if I like Joni Mitchell, then I would like this chick. Problem is, this record has no allusions to any of the sophistication or talent of Joni Mitchell.

At one time, evoking Sarah McLachlan with a formulaic Adia approach on one track called Ariel, and that is as close as it gets to SM, and at other times feeling like it wants to be Natalie Merchant or Laura Nyro (even has a ‘Miracle” tune here), or even an unfunky Ricky Lee Jones or Madeleine Peyroux, this recording falls far short of reaching any of the brilliance of these classic artists, even in potential, though their lyrical influence is evident.
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