Doppelnamers – Music Edition

I was watching an old B movie, Untamed Youth, on YouTube the other day. Interestingly, one of the actors was named Keith Richards. 

No, not that Keith Richards. The Rolling Stone would have been 13 at the time, toiling away at Dartford Technical High School for Boys (two years before getting expelled). 

That got me thinking … Surely, there are other doppelnamers (yup, my own creation) out there as well. 

So, let’s see what we can find …  There were quite a few, mind, so I’m going to start with musicians (and probably do actors next time).

#25 – Jim Morrison

Musician – Lead singer of The Doors

Baseball player – Infielder, played 12 years with 4 teams

Worst uniforms ever?

#24 – Dennis Wilson

Musician – drummer for the Beach Boys

Other musician – British composer of TV music, including the theme song for Fawlty Towers

#23 – Chris Brown

Musician – R&B singer, beat up Rihanna

Baseball player – 1-time All-Star infielder, played for 3 teams over 6 years; worked on 18-wheelers for Haliburton in Iraq; died in a mysterious house fire

#22 – Joe Walsh

Musician – guitarist & keyboard player for the Eagles

Politician – 1-term Republican congressman from Illinois, ran for president in 2020

#21 – Michael Jackson

Musician – the “King of Pop”

Scientist – New Zealand anthropologist, currently teaching at Harvard

#20 – James Taylor / James Brown

Musicians – “Sweet Baby James” / “The Godfather of Soul”

Historical figures – Alamo casualties

#19 – Mike Love

Musician – Beach Boys singer and lyricist

Athlete – Currently on the roster for the Buffalo Bills as a defensive end

#18 – Brian Wilson

Musician – singer & songwriter for the Beach Boys, crazy person

Professional poker player – World Series of Poker bracelet winner

#17 – Brian Jones

Musician – original member of the Rolling Stones; member of the 27 club

Athlete – XFL QB, playing for 8 teams over 8 years

Including these guys

#16 – David Gilmour

Musician – singer & guitarist for Pink Floyd

Canadian businessman – founder of Fiji Water

#15 – David Byrne

Musician – songwriter & lead singer for the Talking Heads

Criminal – Irish gang member, killed at the weigh-in for a boxing match

#14 – George Harrison

Musician – lead guitarist for the Beatles

Businessman – director of marketing for Pepsi & Nintendo

#13 – Keith Richards

Musician – songwriter, singer & guitarist for the Rolling Stones

Actor – has 194 credits, mostly TV & plenty of Westerns

#12 – Paul Simon

Musician – half of Simon & Garfunkel

Politician – congressman & senator from Illinois, ran for president in 1988

With Al Franken, who mocked him on Saturday Night Live, but who would later become a senator himself

#11 – Paul Stanley

Musician – singer and guitarist for KISS (he’s the one with the star) 

Composer – of the immortal “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay”

#10 – Jennifer Lopez

Musician – “pop icon” & “triple-threat entertainer [song, dance & acting]”  [Wikipedia]

Meteorologist – for the Weather Channel

#9 – Adam Levine

Musician – lead vocalist of Maroon 5, known for lots of tatoos

Political appointee – deputy press secretary for George W Bush

#8 – Peter Buck

Musician – lead guitarist of REM

Restaurateur – co-founder of Subway, physicist

#7 – Glenn Frey

Musician – singer/songwriter for the Eagles 

Athlete – QB & running back for the Philadelphia Eagles for 1 season

#6 – James Brown (again)

Musician – the “Godfather of Soul”

Actor – has almost 100 credits, including Going My Way, Starsky & Hutch, and the Rin Tin Tin series

#5 – Phil Collins

Musician – drummer & lead singer of Genesis

Politician – presidential candidate for the Prohibition Party in the 2020 election

#4 – Bob Marley

Musician – reggae pioneer

Comedian – set a Guinness World Record for longest continuous stand-up routine; material focuses on his home state of Maine

#3 – Steve Perry

Musician – lead singer & songwriter for Journey

Actor – pseudonym of porn star Ben Dover (which is a pseudonym for Simon James Honey)

#2 – Robert Smith

Musician – singer, songwriter & front man for The Cure

Peer – Lord Smith of Kelvin, member of the House of Lords

#1 – Tony Bennett

Musician – crooner, famous for “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”

Coach – basketball coach at UVA, where he won the title in 2019

The coach as a woman

One thing I did note in this effort was this might be becoming a thing of the past. There are an awful lot of singers out there these days who go with single names – Kesha, Nelly, Pink, Usher, Rihanna. And that’s not to even touch all the rap and hip-hop nicknames – Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, Dr Dre, Doja Cat …

Who To Invite to Your Republican Orgy

Just this week, Rep. Madison Cawthorn claimed that his House colleagues were inviting him to orgies and doing cocaine in front of him. Well, that certainly got social media talking – and speculating about who that might be.

Since we can’t imagine any Democrats associating with him, it sounds like he must be throwing his Republican colleagues under the (party) bus. Who, though, might those colleagues be exactly?

Well, here are my guesses, in reverse order of likelihood. I’m also including any interesting tidbits I could find about them, with an emphasis on scandals and craziness.

I tell ya - these people are hot, hot, hot!

#25 - Rep Don Young, AK

• Passed away in March, and has yet to be replaced
• Had been in office for 49 years
• Did not do town halls
• Part of a probe about corruption in Alaska (though never charged)
• Investigated by the House Ethics Committee for illegal gifts (ditto)
• Shared an 18-inch walrus’s penis bone on the floor of the House
• Once pinned John Boehner to a wall with a 10-inch knife

#24 - Rep Ron Wright, TX

• Wrote op-eds recommending public executions & display of the corpses
• Died of Covid earlier this year, and was replaced by Jake Ellzey
• COMMENT - Nothing says "sex machine" like a bow tie

#23 - Rep John Rose, TN

#22 - Rep Jim Hagedorn, MN

• Called two colleagues “undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes,” celebrated the death of another & bashed gays
• Based on some of these comments, Intel & UnitedHealth Group have asked for their contributions back
• Office mailing scandal
• Recently passed away, and has not yet been replaced
• Wife is running for his seat, but resigned from her position as head of the Minnesota GOP because of a toxic work environment & ties to sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro 

#21 - Rep Louie Gohmert, TX

• Refuses to hold town hall meetings
• Compared Barack Obama to Hitler, claimed he was in league with the Muslim Brotherhood & accused him of spreading Ebola
• Claimed that ISIS was at the US/Mexico border, the Flood was caused by gay marriage & the Charlottesville riots were a false flag operation
• Wanted martial law declared at the US/Mexico border & Jerry Brown tried for treason
• Once screamed at Eric Holder in a hearing to “not cast aspersions on the asparagus”
• Has been called “America’s craziest and dumbest” congressman by the Lincoln Project

#20 - Rep Troy Nehls, TX

Fired from a police department for 20 violations, including destroying evidence, making improper arrests & being AWOL on duty

#19 - Rep Greg Steube, FL

Has sponsored bills to allow travelers to bring guns into airports

#18 - Rep Clay Higgins, LA

• Resigned from Opelousas PD before he could be disciplined for police brutality
• Resigned from another PD after getting dinged for aggressive questioning, insubordination, and misusing his uniform & badge for personal gain
• Has had several Facebook posts taken down for inciting violence
• Has been married four times & sued for $140,000 in unpaid child support
• Sleeps in his office

#17 - Rep Dan Crenshaw, TX

• Born in Scotland
• Speaks Spanish
• Lost his eye in Afghanistan
• Served as a Navy SEAL
• Told the Jan. 6 insurrectionists to “Stop this bullshit right now"

#16 - Rep Scott DesJarlais, TN

• Former general practitioner
• Pressured a former mistress to get an abortion
• Divorce docs accused him of “dry firing a gun outside [his ex’s] locked bedroom door, admission of suicidal ideation, holding a gun in his mouth for three hours, an incident of physical intimidation at the hospital; and previous threatening behavior … i.e. shoving, tripping, pushing down, etc.”
• Also cheated on his ex with at least 6 other women, including colleagues, pharma reps & patients
• Named the “Biggest Hypocrite in Congress” by POLITICO
• Nominated Trump for a Nobel prize

#15 - Rep Jerry Carl, AL

#14 - Dusty Johnson, SD

• Received money from sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro
• Called a “GOP Socialist” by a local media outlet

#13 - Rep Steve Chabot, OH

• Advocates teaching Intelligent Design in schools
• Has ordered police to seize recording devices at his town halls
• Had a campaign manager sentenced to federal prison for embezzlement 

#12 - Rep Ron Estes, KS

• Took over for Mike Pompeo
• Beat another Ron Estes in the Republican primary

#11 - Rep Tom Cole, OK

• Member of the Chickasaw Nation
• Has a PhD & taught at the University of Oklahoma

#10 - Rep Glenn Thompson, PA

• Firefighter
• Sponsored a resolution to name a particular week in 2019 as "BatWeek"

#9 - Rep Hal Rogers, KY

• Has been called “The Prince of Pork”
• Named by Rolling Stone as one of the “Ten Worst Congressmen”
• Called a “national disgrace” by the National Review & a “congressional disgrace” by CBS News
• Told the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus to “kiss my ass”
• Fined $5,000 by the House Ethics Committee for security violations

#8 - Sen Mitch McConnel, KY

Way too much to include here

#7 - Rep Mariannette Miller-Meeks, IA

• Former ophthalmologist
• Fined for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor
• Retweeted – in all seriousness – a fake news article from the satirical news website delawareohionews.com  
• Target of a House complaint about not fully disclosing her finances

#6 - Rep Billy Long, MO

• Former auctioneer & World Poker Tour player
• Shared a tweet that compared Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct to a “kiss on the forehead”
• Called YouTube “un-American” for deleting one of his campaign ads

#5 - Rep H Morgan Griffith, VA

COMMENT:  Must be the lighting on this one

#4 - Rep John Curtis, UT

Considered something of a RINO

#3 - Rep Trent Kelly, MS

Was actually the target of the shooter who struck Steve Scalise

#2 - Rep Scott Fitzgerald, WI

• Did not write The Great Gatsby
• Is not related to Dick Cheney

#1 - Rep Virginia Foxx, SC

• Nicknamed “Hide your biscuits,” from her propensity to fill her coat with buffet treats
• One of only 11 members of congress who voted against Hurricane Katrina relief
• Lies include that the Matthew Shepard murder was a robbery, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act & crazed shooter Jared Loughner was a communist
• Nominated Trump for a Nobel prize
• COMMENT - "Crazy like a fox" doesn't even begin to describe it

Might have to balance with a demo orgy post.  Stay tuned.

NC Governors - Place of Birth

For some reason, I’m obsessed with North Carolina’s governors. Apart from NC being my home state, I’m also a huge history and politics buff.

I’m also a huge presidential buff. I’ve got multiple books on them as a whole – histories, trivia, even travel books …

I guess I figure governors are the closet thing at the state level. Now, there are bios of individual governors (though most of these are pretty obscure). What’s surprising, though, is how little info there is out there comparable to the stuff I have on the presidents. 

So, why not just roll my own?

You know, I could probably get a couple of posts out of this. But, heck, let’s start with where these guys were born.

Methodology & Results

There have been 67 governors of the state of North Carolina. To tell you the truth, all I did was simply look at what counties they were born in, then throw those on a map:

Key

Governors born outside NC:

• Black ring – outside US
• Red ring – Confederate states
• Purple ring – border states
• Blue ring – Union states

Governors born inside NC:

• Red dot – statehood to 1800 (post-Colonial)
• Green dot – 1800 to Civil War (antebellum)
• Light blue dot – Civil War to 1900 (Civil War, Reconstruction & Redemption)
• Blue dot – 1900 to 1973 (Democratic lock)
• Purple – 1973 to present (mixed elections)
• Black dot – from multiple eras

Both

The size of the ring denotes how many governors have been from that county

Interpretation

• 22% of governors have been from outside NC, with 9% from Virginia alone (& 4% from outside the US)
• Rockingham has provided the most with 5, Buncombe the 2nd most with 3
• 6 others have each supplied 2 (Alamance, Wayne, Halifax, Bertie, Mecklenburg & Edgecombe)

• Overall, there’s a pretty good distribution across the state
• The far west and the northern foothills are the only areas that have really missed out

• No real patterns historically
• That said, the antebellum era seemed to go straight across the state, from Washington County to Burke
• For some reason, there were a lot of governors from counties along the SC border in the 1st three-quarters of the 20th Century