Sheesh,…. Just when you may have thought it was ok to put the neon big lettered 1980’s white-guilt quilt/blankie back into a hermetically sealed box, South Africa’s version of Communist Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, dies.

Dust off the Bob Geldof albums, wait…. no, that’s Sir Bob Geldof now…  see if you can find your Bono U2 cassettes, try to remember the words to “We Are The World”, and get ready to cry while listening to sorrowful Paul Simon VHS replays with tribal drumbeats and elephant cries.   How’d that James Taylor tune go again?…
Ya see, predictably we have to look forward to ten days of historical rewriting, and  simultaneously avoid mentioning the explosion of African AIDS and a never lost bromance between Muamar Kadaffi, Fidel Castro, and Winnie Mandela’s insta-meal ticket.
This is the first real chance the Baby Boomers and Gen-X will have to connect themselves to Millennial’s who have no clue who this Marxist Cuban lounge-shirt Mandela apartheid dude is.  Oh boy, just think, how the collegiate Boomer Professors are gonna run with this one.
In the 60’s we only had to get through the Jane/Peter Fonda headlines.   Now we’ll have a reappearance of CNN’s Bernard Shaw and globetrotting vocalist Sting against the backdrop of Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell and Morgan Freeman……    And then of course Matt Damon, wait, oh snap, oh my God, not NEON, big hair *AND* Matt Damon?…..  Crap, where’s that Quincy Jones stuff ?
Yes, Sinead O’Conner, for the next 10+ days every professional grievance institutionalist is gonna be working overtime to generate the flashbacks of Steven Biko and a romancing of the ANC.

With Arsenio Hall back on TV you can expect a full court press from Jon Stewart to keep his share of viewership amid a collective of Kardashian-minds who couldn’t tell a Clinton from a Clapton.   Will they recognize Bono when he’s crying?  But no matter what they say I’m not taking out the Members Only jackets, I don’t care who they are…. a free-market capitalist has to have some standards.
When Reagan-Clinton-Bush were in the White House, Apartheid was a South African political mess.   A mess we could all talk about, sing about, rail against, and discuss as bad, bad mojo – OVER THERE.
However, oddly now that Barack Hussein Obama is in the White House, we’re going to have to wade through 10 days of grievance pontifications about Apartheid being – OVER HERE.   Go figure that one out…

Yes, Tu-Tu, this is a strange, strange, world o’ Kansas we’ve become.

…. ah, there’s my blankie.