Perhaps Billy feels Seth Putnam has outpaced him in terms of his old tongue-in-cheek bullshit, perhaps otherwise, but when he makes the point ("Every Dog Has Its Day", Myspace) that Whoopie Goldberg defending Michael Vick's fighting dogs as being part of "Southern culture" is the equivalent of saying that slavery was simply an inherent aspect of Southern culture, well hell, there's something actually sizzling in that brain pan after all. But as for _Red, White and Screwed_, even when Milano gets all tongue in cheek he's making puns like "The Big It"; quite a far cry from "Bubble Butt" and "Party Animal". "Hardcore Harry", which ten years ago would have been some kind of porn send up, is here an indictment of those punk scenesters who are there simply to cash in through merchandising and ripping off the bands in whatever underhanded manner possible (though he does take another hilarious stab at King Diamond on "G.L.E.T. [Greatest Lie Ever Told]"). Truthfully, there's nothing particularly deep here, but due to the man's past I'm inclined to give him a pass on the merits of reformation, and musically this is all pretty fucking listenable, even if that's the first time I've ever said that about an M.O.D. record. One of the year's biggest surprises.