“We know Mark Knopfler’s working-class antihero is a thicky because he talks like Randy Newman and uses the same word for homosexual that old bluesboys use, a word Knopfler has somehow gotten on the radio with no static from the PMRC. I mean, why not “little nigger with the spitcurl” instead of “little faggot with the earring,” Mark? And while we’re at it, how the hell did you end up on MTV? By spelling its name right?”