Needing a Shot in the Arm

remember the relief when it first came out in 2021 and trying to spread the word

‘We’re jabbing’: Covid vaccine song remakes, from Bob Marley to Madness | Music | The Guardian

Dolly Parton adapted Jolene for her Covid jab celebration song, but how about looking to Ramones, Bob Marley or the Beach Boys? “Good, good, good, good vaccinations.”
Parton set social media ablaze on Wednesday by releasing a short video from her injection in Nashville. “Well hey, it’s me. I’m finally going to get my vaccine and I’m so excited,” she said.
Encouraging people to follow suit she sang a reworked version of one of her biggest hits. “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. I’m begging of you please don’t hesitate,” she sang. “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. ‘Cos once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
Get the vaccine, Parton urged people, and to all the cowards out there “don’t be such a chicken squat, get out there and get your shot.”?
The video prompted an immediate outpouring of affection for Parton, who gave $1m (£716,000) last year to help develop the Moderna vaccine. “I didn’t think it possible to love Dolly more. I was wrong,” tweeted the physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili.
It also raised the question of which other songs could be repurposed to encourage people to get a jab?
Anything by the Vaccines, obviously. But would the Beach Boys settle their differences for a sing-a-long 2021 version of Good Vibrations?
“I’m picking up good vaccinations. She’s giving me the inoculations. Oom bop bop … good, good, good, good vaccinations [repeat many times].”
Might Madness urge people: “Listen buster, you’d better start to move your feet, to the rockin’est, rocksteady beat of Pfizer. One step BioNtech.”
If only Joey Ramone were still around for a reworking of the Ramones classic I Wanna Be Sedated: “Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go. I wanna be vaccinated. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, oh, I wanna be vaccinated.”
In response to a Guardian callout, Ian Cookson suggested Jamming by Bob Marley and the Wailers: “We’re jabbing, we’re jabbing, we’re jabbing … I hope you like jabbing too.”
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looks like we need some new songs or at least updated boosters — “the second (or 3rd or 4th) time around” or “i’ve got you under my skin”

speaking of shots on another issue, here’s eugene robinson’s

Opinion Elon Musk shouldn’t be calling the shots on how Ukraine fights- The Washington Post

and in the same vein  🙂

the editorial board’s

Opinion | The platform X shouldn’t help Saudi Arabia repress its citizens – The Washington Post

too many booster shots of vodka maybe? what’s with putie these days — odd contradictions lately. 

Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says – BBC News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong.
Speaking at a forum in eastern Russia, he said it is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other people.
His remarks come as Russian troops continue fighting in Ukraine.
The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 following mass protests and demands for greater freedoms.
President Putin made the comments at the Eastern Economic Forum in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok on Tuesday.
A moderator asked him how he would respond to those who say the Soviet Union behaved like a colonial power when it sent tanks into Prague in 1968 and Budapest in 1956.
Mr Putin said: “We acknowledged a long time ago that that part of the Soviet policy was mistaken and only led to tension in relations. One must not do anything in foreign policy that comes in direct contradiction with the interests of other peoples.”
Mr Putin went on to say that countries in the West, primarily the US, were now making the same mistake as the Soviets made then.
“They put pressure on their allies, so-called partners. They have no friends. They only have interests. That is a continuation of a well-known British formula,” he said.
Mr Putin’s comments about the Soviet Union’s actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia appear to contradict the views of some within his inner circle.
In August, a history textbook written by one of Mr Putin’s advisers, Vladimir Medinsky, claimed that the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was a fascist uprising organised by the West and said that the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary in 1990 had been a mistake.
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doocy did good for a change

White House thanks Fox News’s Peter Doocy after report on Biden’s ‘all-nighter’ overseas  | The Hill

The White House sent an online thank you to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy after he mentioned President Biden’s tough work schedule while in Asia this week.
“He has basically been working all through the night,” Doocy said while reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, where Biden is meeting with the country’s leaders. “The equivalent of an all-nighter Eastern Time. So, he’s probably pretty tired, pretty jet-lagged.”
Critics of Doocy and Fox had circulated the clip online late Monday, pointing out the routine criticism of the president’s age and mental state that have become a regular staple of Fox News’s programming since Biden took office.
“Thank you Peter,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, early Tuesday morning.
Jean-Pierre’s message to Doocy comes just hours after the White House rolled out an online pushback campaign regarding the way Biden’s age — 80 — is covered by mainstream media outlets.
“Here on Earth, we saw the President start his day in India at the G20, end the day in Hanoi with a substantive & detailed 40-minute press conference at 9pm, and continue to answer questions—including from @cnn—as he departed. What will be enough?” one top aide wrote on X recently.
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offering off-the -wall offal oafen often offend while in office.