A political talk radio host to whom I listen regularly recently played a portion of "People Will Die!," a rap tune that apparently went viral in certain circles several years ago, to illustrate a point he was making. It cracked me up enough to prompt me to look up the whole piece. It was created by a parody musician of Lebasnese and Iraqi parentage named Remy Munasifi. He makes much of his music in conjunction with the website of libertarian-oriented magazine Reason and its parent Reason Foundation. I'd never heard of him until last week. Had you known of Munasifi (he musically goes only, or mainly, by his first name) before starting this survey?

I was pleased to discover that Remy is pretty prolific as both an adept rapper and winsome singer. He uses both pre-existing pop, country, rock and show tunes, as well as hip-hop numbers of recent and older times, as well as his own compositions to be both hilarious and educational in so far as making points about the value of free markets and personal choice and responsibility, among other topics. To prove he's an even-handed humorist capable of calling out people across the political spectrum, I've included with this question "Go to Mexico," Remy's take on Republican Ted Cruz's vacation south of the US border during the COVID-19 scare and other trouble betting his state of Texas at the time . Are you appreciative of comedic performers who can point out hypocrisy regardless political affiliation?

Even when Remy's making a point with which I may not agree entirely (he and I have differing opinions on the degree to which violent video games are a societal/cultrural scourge, though he may agree more with my disapproval of children being exposed to then?), he can make me laugh. Do you find it easy to laugh at jokes, etc. the premises of which you may disagree with?

One of Remy's more unusual numbers salutes a giant among U.S. comic book writers and pubnlishers while retelling litle-told history of that artform. "The Legend of Stfan Lee" sort of cribs from the structure of Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" to both salute Lee after his death, tell of the hysteria fomented against violent and gory comic books in the 1950's by Dr. Frederic Wertham's book, Seduction of the Innocent, and Lee's defiance of the comics industry's self-regulating board creaetd in response to that hysteria for freedom of speech's sake. Do you enjoy learning or being reminded of history by music?

What may make Remy's music weird for some people is that it's coming from someone who many may consider a political consevative (since he'considers himself Libertarian, he may chafe at that characterization). I think of him as an analogue to "Weird" Al Yankovic with a more lyrically pronouced conscience about many issues Yankovic doesn't or won't adfdress. I'm sure I'd enjoy seeing him in concert, though I doubt he's touring any time soon. Do you find it weird that someone coming from Remy's perspective would make funny--ar, at least, meant-to-be-funny--music?