[punkrockmonday # 19] The Legendary K.O.- George Bush Don’t Like Black People

The Onion has a list of 29 remarkable works inspired by Katrina. With the exception of Herzog's much improved version of Bad Lieutenant and this music video, I haven't watched any of those. I really do love me this song and video though. So in honor of this year's hurricane season, and the weird combination of unseriousness, venality, and dishonesty of anybody powerful enough to do anything about anything, here's The Legendary K.O., testifying a mere two weeks after Katrina. The band is from Houston, where Barbara Bush said that it's worked out very well for them. This was while walking through the Houston sports arena and in reference to all of the exhausted people she saw there huddled on bedbug riddled mattresses, people who'd lost everything and sometimes everyone. Barbara Bush don't like black people either. How could you possibly say something like that if you did?

I realize that there's a tendency to give Bush a pass because we feel sorry for the incompetent. But I must say that after the fact he was extraordinarily competent in blocking all manner of reasonable proposed reforms that would stop another Katrina from happening. This was multi-year fight. It was almost as if his core emotional response was just to get incredibly angry at the city, and the only competence the man could ever muster involved revenge for real and imagined slights.

1. [Punkrockmonday #1] The White Stripes - Jack the Ripper (orig. Screaming Lord Sutch), Black Math, and the Big Three Killed My Baby]
2. [Punkrockmonday #2] Roy Cook - Saint Paul Cathedral, Minneapolis Capitol Building, Aayla Secura Mosaic, and Firefly Class Spaceship
3. [Punkrockmonday #3] El Général- Rais Le Bled (President, Your Country)
4. [Punkrockmonday #4] Charlie Patton -High Water Everywhere, Part 2
5. [Punkrockmonday #5] Henry Rollins- What Am I Doing Here; Willie Nelson- Me and Paul; Rainbow Connection (orig. Kermit the Frog)
6. [Punkrockmonday #6] Philip Larkin - Church Going
7. [Punkrockmonday #7] David Bowie - Time
8. [Punkrockmonday #8] P.J. Harvey - When Under Ether; White Chalk; Broken Harp
9. [Punkrockmonday #9] Allison Kraus and Robert Plant - When the Levee Breaks (orig. Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie)
10. [Punkrockmonday #10] Doog - Famous Blue Raincoat (orig. Leonard Cohen); sElf - Back in Black (orig. AC/DC); Johnny Cash- Down There By the Train (orig. Tom Waits)
11. [Punkrockmonday #11] John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues; Weird Al Yankovic - My Sharona; Edgar Cruz - Bohemian Rhapsody
12. [punkrockmonday #12] Pixar Studios - Cars 2; The Bang Bang - Sitting in a Car; Angry Samoans - Hot Cars; Black Flag - Drinking and Driving; Gary Numan - Cars; Queen - Bicycle Race
13. [punkrockmonday #13] Betty Bowers - Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else
14. [punkrockmonday #14] Sesame Street - Sure Shot (orig. Beastie Boys)
15. [punkrockmonday #15] Neil Degrasse Tyson - Stupid Design
16. [punkrockmonday # 16] C.M. Punk - run up to Money in the Bank victory
17. [punkrockmonday #17] Dead Kennedys - Riot
18. [punkrockmonday # 18] Cookie Monster - God's Away on Business (orig. Tom Waits)