Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Sunday Song Lyric:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_16-2008_11_22.shtml#1226847155
The other big ballot proposition news from California this year was
the passage of [1]Proposition 2, requiring more humane confinement
conditions for farm animals, particularly chickens, pregnant pigs, and
calves raised for veal. The full impact of the measure is a [2]bit
unclear, but could be quite significant, and not just for chickens.
One VC reader suggests a song lyric in honor of Prop 2's passage:
"Animals" by [3]Talking Heads. It's a great choice -- a
characteristically quirky David Byrne composition from [4]Fear of
Music, one of the Heads' pre-Stop Making Sense, Eno-produced albums.
Here's a taste:
They�re never there when you need them
They never come when you call them
They�re never there when you need them
They never come when you call them down down down down.
I know the animals . . . are laughing at us
They don�t even know . . . what a joke is
I won�t follow . . . animal�s advice
I don�t care . . . if they�re laughing at us.
The full lyrics are [5]here.
References
1. http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/title-sum/prop2-title-sum.htm
2. http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1380971.html
3. http://www.talking-heads.nl/
4. http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Music-Talking-Heads/dp/B000002KNY
5.
http://www.talking-heads.nl/index.php/talking-heads-lyrics/16-fear-of-music
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