Those of you resident in the USA during the time that tv only came in black and white will remember the program, I Led 3 Lives, about Herbert A. Philbrick (name probably changed to protect the innocent) who did, in fact, live 3 lives (not consecutively). He was 1) a Communist sseking violent overthrow of the Government, 2) an FBI counter-intelligence agent, and 3) Honey and Dad at home.

Despite his seeming Labor image, Irish Republican sympathies, pinko politics and embrace of the downtrodden, my operatives have recently uncovered the REAL Mick Lane! First of all, his REAL name is not Mick Lane at all. His REAL name is Fergus MacMucklefutch. Second of all, he does not really play a Harmony Soverign guitar with the word Soverign scratched out and Patriot overpainted in green, he plays a custom-made Brazilian rosewood Martin D-45 with a "Screw The Workers" diamond-inlay on the back. Third of all, "Phoney Mick," i.e. actually MacMucklefutch, is the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Michigan and is Senior Vice President for Internal Security at the Pinkerton Protective Service. This is his only connection with anything "Pink." Fourth, but NOT lastly, I'm sure, "Our Man" does not really live in a workers' cottage in the pines but a multi-million dollar waterside mansion in Grosse Point.

And if you want to know about "Big Mick's" contribution to folk music, what do you think of this snip-it for a piece that he penned...

The working class can kiss my ass
I've got the foreman's job at last
The workers' flag is really pink
It's not as read as you my think...

So there you are "Mick," I mean Fergus. How does it feel to be wearing your pants down around your ankles with nothing to support your overendulged gut but the four winds?