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Irish busker singing you’ve got a friend in me to an autistic child on the Luas (Tram) ♥ from r/HumansBeingBros

Maccers writes:

Spotted this on Reddit and just thought it was nice for a Friday, I don’t know any of the people in it or who posted it. The little squeals of delight out of the boy make it lovely. That is the Luas Green line, just pulling out of Broombridge. And the comments say the busker is called Mick McLoughin.


Singer songwriter Randy Newman has chipped in his two cents on the presidential race with a new satirical ditty, thereby officially making Obama the Woody to Romney’s Stinky Pete.

The piano tune features the refrain: “I’m dreaming of a white president.” It is full of satirical, sarcastic — and signature — Newman anecdotes about someone who votes for the president because he is white.

Newman, who is white, is openly supporting President Barack Obama. He says he wants the public to find comedic relief in the song, but to also know he’s serious about his thoughts that racism is well and alive in the world — and in the current presidential race. He called racism “the great issue of this country.”

“I felt that that sentiment exists in the country,” Newman said in an interview Monday. “I don’t know how many people you can get to admit it. I think maybe zero.”

Randy Newman writes new satirical, political song (Wall Street Journal)

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