As most of you probably know, today has been set aside as a one-time federal holiday as we mourn the death of Ray Charles.
As a nation, we must fall back on our emergency blind, black musical genius, who still has a few good years left in him. If you are black and blind or willing to be blinded, and can play at least four instruments and compose hit songs, please contact the White House immediately.
Can the emergency backup be the funky, younger, "Very Superstitious" version, and not the lame "Isn't She Lovely" version?
Well, those songs are only 4 years apart ('72 & '76). Plus, we all know that 'Part Time Lover' (1985) was way better than 'Ma Cherie Amour' (1969).
And don't even get me started on 'Jungle Fever.'