"Name Three Obsolete Things.....Black and White TV....Eight Track Tape Players....Respect for Our Elders...."

Old saying.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

New saying.

Politics, and blogs, make strange bedfellows.

For example...

Bob Dylan...

...and Jerry Lewis.

Jerry, of course, is in the news because he has been, for all intents and purposes, kicked to the curb by the Muscular Dystrophy Association after forty five years and close to two billion dollars in funds raised.

That's billions with a b, by the way, not millions with an m.

First up, I'm not a knee jerk advocate/fan of Jerry Lewis. While I respect what he has accomplished professionally through the years, his sense of humor/movies have always left me underwhelmed and his air has always seemed to have just the tiniest aroma of "holier than thou".

And, to this day, I can't figure out why the French consider him an iconic "comedic genius".

Then again, this is a country that thinks cheese is one of the two major food groups, lactose intolerance be damned.

Admittedly, I don't know the man personally and he could be the nicest guy on the planet. In fact, of late, I found myself sincerely impressed with his work, a season or two back, as the aging, poignantly afflicted uncle of Richard Belzer's character on a very well done episode of "Law and Order-SVU".

And, credit where due, he did father Gary who, unknowingly, helped me score a modest grope or two in the sixties, by giving my teenage garage band such chick pleasing favorites to play such as "This Diamond Ring", "Everybody Loves A Clown" and, the sure fire melt their resistance piece de' resistance, "Save Your Heart For Me"

Regardless of personal taste or opinion, though, nobody who plays fair in life can be anything but disgusted at the MDA's seemingly callous showing of the door to Jerry without so much as a rubber chicken dinner or gold watch to express much deserved gratitude and appreciation.

That said, their action, while both class, and taste, less, is a predictable point in the timeline of life.

Out with the old, in with the new.

Here's your hat, what's your hurry?

Your old road is/ Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one/If you can't lend your hand...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, performing the theme song from the forthcoming "The Jerry Lewis Story"....




Pretty prophetic, there, Bob.

Watch your back, though.

You turned 70 this year.

Jerry, on the other hand, might find himself yet another career.