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Doctor John and Johnny Winter jammed once, and somebody was there with a camcorder. Actually, a network was there with a professional crew.

CBC radio is bringing out a new show featuring "Black" music. CBC has been on a woke tear the last year or two. It's as if the place has been taken hostage by a bunch of York U sociology grads.

Black Music?

Those two white guys I started off with were playing black music. What are the odds they're gonna be on the new CBC show?

I think it's a really stupid idea to politicise music. The CBC no doubt has expert consultants aplenty advising them what's black music and what's not. I have a hunch Doctor John and Johnny W won't make the cut.

Be that as it may, when the good white doctor went to his white reward, there were plenty of black folks in New Orleans happy enough to claim him as one of their own.

We won't be seeing that on CBC, but that's the real world.

Lynching Ray Nagin

I see where they've got former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin at the end of a rope almost.

According to the stuff I've been reading, it has been alleged that in the ebb and flow of his mayoralty he took illicit benefits that were worth somewhere in the range of a couple of hundred K.

Almost enough for a down payment on a beach house on the Gulf Coast.

Apparently this makes him the first crooked mayor in the 295 year history of New Orleans.

That's kind of funny, because all the other guys actually had beach houses on the gulf... never mind down payments.

Mind you, some of those alleged benefits took the form of airplane rides and limo trips, which are hard to put down on shore-front real estate.

$200 thousand?

Almost an insult to pursue the charges.

Ask the mayor of Montreal what $200K will get you. A place in the line.

I don't mean to make light of political corruption if that's what this is about. But I'm pretty sure it's really about something else.

In the darkest hours of Katrina, Ray Nagin stood up to Washington.

This is payback.