For the same reason that two boring white dudes can star in two different movies in the same year about the White House being taken over by terrorists
Because similar isn't the same. As long as they can argue that specifics are different enough, that's all that matters.
By no means do I think she did it better than Joplin. But Pink's AOL Sessions performance of Me and Bobby McGee has stuck in my head for decades now. (And for what it's worth, both are better than the original from Kristofferson)
Second choice, and another one that I legitimately think is better than the original, *Tweeter and the Monkey Man" by The Headstones.
Edited: Honourable Mention, because no one ever actually tops The Clash. But Captain Tractor did a version of London Calling that is one of my favourites.
Edited: Okay...one last one. Specifically for the Saskies. Captain Tractor's version of the Arrogant Worm's "Last Saskatchewan Pirate".
For a bit of context, back in the 90s, my then girlfriend and I were decent friends with the band. Enough so that whenever they would come to Saskatoon they'd crash at our place and we'd go hang out backstage at their shows. Weird because the reason we knew them in the first place was because the drummer was my girlfriends ex....but hey...it was the 90s.
Just an all around bar-band all about drinking songs. Something young people don't do anymore. Was talking to a buddy of mine the other day about how every bar we used to go to in the 90s has been demolished.
I haven't even met her and I already love her.
miniature donkey
Since when is that allowed!? /s
I'm fine with that. My bigger question was simply why am I seeing it in sports news instead of entertainment news all of a sudden? It's not a sport. it's a variety show sponsored by the makers of steroids.
Went out for supper the other night with a buddy of mine who came to visit from out of town. He's a systems technology trainer coordinator at a community college. (Basically, he teaches the teachers about new technologies before they have to teach it to their students the next term.)
We were talking about tech at supper, specifically windows, and I realized that I have been on Linux for so long that I completely lost any knowledge of how to do any of those things in Windows. And I'm honestly okay with that.
I don't disagree. My larger point was that the Greens and the NDP can spend their time checking off promises for every niche issue that only affects a few people. They can literally have thousands of little promises to small groups because there's no expectation that they'll ever win the leadership and actually have to come through on them.
I'm not going to say I "love" them now, but I appreciate onions' use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.
It's easy to make every promise to everybody when you know you literally have zero chance of ever needing to fulfil them.
Americans: "What do WE want? Oh...you don't understand. What are YOU bringing to us as an offering to the god king so that he may bestow his benevolence upon you."
And I'm not even kidding about about that; that's exactly how the Trump administration thinks international relations should be.
I would honestly love to see Wab Kinew take a run at the federal leadership.