> 12. "Neighborhood Bully," by Bob Dylan.
> A pro—Israel song released in 1983, two years after
> the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, this ironic
> number could be a theme song for the Bush Doctrine:
> "He destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad / The
> bombs were meant for him / He was supposed to feel bad
> / He's the neighborhood bully."
Odd choice. In my right-wing days, we thought that Dylan's "My Back Pages" was a great conservative song <http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ backpages.html>:
> A self-ordained professor's tongue
> Too serious to fool
> Spouted out that liberty
> Is just equality in school
> "Equality," I spoke the word
> As if a wedding vow.
> Ah, but I was so much older then,
> I'm younger than that now.
It has it all: a swipe at the liberal professoriat, the contempt for equality, the preference for "liberty"...
Doug