'Some of these days, you're gonna miss me...." 2011 a catastrophic year for the endangered African elephants. Do we really care?

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author's program note. In 1911 Shelton Brooks wrote and composed a tune that became the signature song for the "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", Sophie Tucker. There wasn't a woman alive (not a girl, mind, but a card-carrying woman) who didn't love Tucker for getting up off her backside and singing it like it is... about the woman who gave so much, only to be discarded and spurned by her man... the man who thereby let you know he was on his way to other places, other

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