One of those mornings when I look at the political news and think: “Is this the Stupid Election or what?” So here’s the Sex Pistols with “Pretty Vacant,” performed in Dallas in 1978.

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Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.