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Thursday, November 06, 2008

Yay, A New President

Maybe, I won't be considering giving up my baseball caps for hockey jerseys as much anymore. It appears the young'ens of the U.S.A. came out to vote on Tuesday. Enough that MTV may have finally "rocked the vote" this time. Or maybe it is due to the message oozing over from past election vote rocking (newly turned voter over in last 4-8 years). It did seem that any band that was cool was rocking a Barack festival somewhere. I like art with politics mixed in with it anyway. I wonder if Barack t-shirts will ever be as fashionable as Che t-shirts.

A signal of a creative class is coming into power, I'm all for more art and less oil. The problem being that we live in an infrastructure that for the past 70+ years has been dominantly designed around the consumption of oil. While creative's get around these design flaws, most will need a little help in adjusting that basic American right to drive an SUV anywhere, anytime. I definitely support more and more options for our mobility.

The internet and technology has definitely changed what we are, but is anyone more or less significant to the world with all the thingamabobs connected? Does it make us feel more involved? The RSSkids will be happy to know that they can check Change.gov to stay current with all things presidential on their cell phone.

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Oboyama

Not that I haven't ever been called a socialist for my views, but I think the real victory for us is that the new president actually knows how to send an email, even though he will not be allowed to.

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Saturday, February 17, 2007

The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

I felt like I had missed a boat full of a major cultural and somewhat a political movement. My parents deemed me too young to go to the concerts and shows put on by the touring rock bands of the day. I still haven't forgiven them. At the time I felt I was being denied the coveted label of a "Generation X 'er"

Unfortunately for me this time in my life developed a philosophy of the music industry that then caused me to dismiss The Afghan Whigs when they released "Gentlemen". During this period of music, I felt one needed to be extremely cautious when choosing your listening selections. The air was swarming with an onslaught of overnight grunge sensations. This band was lured from the Sub Pop label to Elektra, and that was cause for a little suspicion. But, I do remember that I gave this release a chance by listening to it through a few times. For some reason it wasn't good music to me then.

That all has changed as of lately. I now am a full fledged Afghan Whigs recommender, and I highly recommend you listen to this one.


from Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)
If I Were Going

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Freedumb

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " - Ben Franklin

Earlier this week as I was driving down the road, I noticed some red and blue lights flashing at me from behind. "OK" I thought "I am not going that fast, am I really getting pulled over for going 5 over the speed limit?" Well, the final ticket issued only gave a non-fineable warning for speeding. My real crime was that I was not wearing a seatbelt.

Now, it is not my intent to disagree that there are positive effects when you wear a seatbelt. My issue is in that my local government has decided that it is their business to require me by law to do so. I don't see it as being justified. I believe it is a personal choice to buckle up or not. Should someone get in an accident then they should personally accept to live with the consequences from which ever decision is made. Those consequences are not something that has an effect on society as a whole either way. So then, what right does government have taking the right to make personal decisions? Instead, anyone choosing not to wear seatbelts is fined $45 because the government doesn't think we have the right to make that choice ourselves.

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