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"I Can't Quit You Baby"
YouTube VideoAfter more than a decade on Daily Kos, I still find myself actively contributing on this blog - contentious as it can get at times with a cantankerous group of people bubbling with ideas and observations ranging from brilliant to pedestrian and everything in between. Often, ambivalence is part of even the best of real life or virtual relationships and not unlike many of you, I have taken periodic breaks - several months at a time both by design and default - to work for this or that political campaign or simply to recharge my batteries. We all need a blogging tune-up from time to time to maintain our sanity; otherwise, stagnation permeates our psyche, overwhelms us, and dries up our creative juices. So, come back I always do for I have never seriously considered the alternative. I've often asked myself these questions: what is it that brings me back and keeps me here? Do words written and read on a computer screen really matter? Could I not find another venue to voice my opinions? Would I ever leave? Would I ever consider writing a "Goodbye, Cruel World" diary and force Markos's hand as one community member famously did over six years ago? Would Kos even "delete" my account? The answer has always been a resounding "No!" I can't ever think of giving it up. As this song written and sung by the "Poet Laureate of the Blues" Willie Dixon says
I can't quit you baby so I'm gonna put you down for a while. I said now, I can't quit you babe, so I guess I got to put you down for a little while. Ah, when you hear me moanin' and groanin', whoa you know it hurts me way down inside Whoa when you hear me moanin' and groanin', you know it hurts way down inside Oh when you hear me howlin', ooh you know my love will never die, alright
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amazing version of the Willie Dixon song on Youtube, as performed by Led Zeppelin. It was first sung by Otis Rush.