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Now, If He's Quitting Because The Lyrics Are Bad And Lame, That's Understandable
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The President of Modesto Junior College has resigned after people upset by budget cuts he implemented did a little Googling and found song lyrics he wrote in his side "career" as a singer. The lyrics are pretty standard folk-punk fare, including an angry screed against Amtrak likening the train to the trains at Auschwitz, jokes about drug use, that kind of thing. And that was enough to pull the plug. It's interesting in that you have to take the lyrics way out of context -- you have to ignore the satirical context -- to be outraged, but a lot of people do that. And it makes me assume that I could never be elected anything (yeah, I know, I wouldn't be elected no matter what), because stuff I've written in the past would be taken literally rather than in the humorous context intended. People can't be that stupid, can they? Don't answer that. (Modesto Bee)
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