cheese it, the cops!

ST Dominics Peview as performed by House Blissful Idiot Chorus

 

In which Crusader AXE stops by and raises some questions about whether blissful ignorance ends at the ballot box for the Dumbasses who pass laws not realizing that things like Sequestration have an impact, and the government does things with the money that they appropriate and that they control appropriations... with the help of Jackson Browne, Joan Baez and the Doobie Brothers with a quote from Phil Ochs...who would be a lot of fun if he was still here, sane, sober and not wearing a gold lame suit.

 

Two of Crispin's favorite Renaissance thinkers collide...kinda, sorta, maybe

Highjacking Crispin's site again with JJ Cale and Chuck Prophet, Thomas More and Thomas Hobbes, the Navajo, the Army, Paul Ryan and Tora Bora...it just doesn't get better than this. I think at times there's a better class of reader here than at the other places I babble...certainly the comments I get over at Veteran's Today give me a lot of pause. Anyway, this has been a complex piece to get my teeth into...for a variety of reasons. So, here we go...

Civilized costs more than hard, brutish and short...

The number of broken promises and bad judgments made over the last 30 years is incredible. Each bad judgment ends up causing more broken promises. However, the majority of the problems I see – crumbling infrastructure, lousy schools, increased long-term unemployment, mounting debt, lagging modernization, lack of a coherent energy plan and so on and on and on  as well as what has happened to Native Americans, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsman, Civil Servants, Labor Unions, and on and on comes from the idea that we don’t have the wherewithal to pay for what we need to do. That is bullshit. 

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Thomas More

 

 

Can you say AN/PDR-27R?  ALPHA-NOVEMBER-PAPA-DELTA-ROMEO-TWO-SEVEN-ROMEO?

today's songs of protest, suggested by my students.

today's songs of protest:

yesterday's protest songs. actually the blue scholars was back home (embedding disabled). thanks hena: didn't know these folks.

some more protest songs: vietnam era.

today's protest songs:

today's protest songs:

ok i am taking nominations. favorite political/protest songs?

so i've been showing political/protest songs each day in my "recent political thought" course. so far: merle haggard 'okie from muskogee' and bob marley and the wailers, 'burning and looting. then this, located by my student jake (who's the treasurer of the college democrats). i'm not going to skew right in the long run because you'd have to say that most significant protest music has been on the other side. but here's what public enemy looks like today:

i think what we could say is that one would expect something like this to be quite a bit worse than this is. suddenly you realize that schumer/tumor is an inevitable rhyme, thanks jake sternberger.

yo remember white people? here's what they looked and sounded like: