She Got Run Over By a Damned Old Train

Great piece here from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek, comparing Hillary Clinton's speech the other night to "the perfect country and western song" David Allen Coe spoke about in his sone "You Never Even Called me by my Name."

Karol (who doesn't share my taste for much country'n'western music) has heard me sing these lyrics several times, just for fun.  So this morning when she read parts of Hillary Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, she exclaimed "This reminds me of that David Allan Coe song you're always singing!"

And Karol's correct.  Sen. Clinton's speech is predictably full of typical political nonsense, posturing, and hubris pretending to be humility.  In this sense, it's a really good political speech.  But her inclusion of these lyrics are what make it the perfect political speech:

Go there to read why. Especially if you have never heard the lyrice to that song. They are classic.