George Clinton is 74 today. Washingtonians need no introduction to him. Here is the ultimate Parliament/Funkadelic anthem: “P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)”.

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