Why does it take an artist to come to the goddamned point about Bush and our failure to overcome his sorry-ass shenanigans? What is politics if it is devoid of creativity? Devoid of humor. Devoid of vision. Devo-id.
Where's the music? Where's the plan? Where the fuck is Joe Strummer when you need him?
Let's here from a man with soul. As much as a white man can have, anyway....
Drop to the depths below
John Cusack is an occasional writer on HuffingtonPost, and he's a fucking breath of fresh air. Puts all the rest of those self-absorbed lefties to shame (except Harry Shearer). Even Arianna.
So, let's hear from the owner of Championship Vinyl himself.
Murder is a crime. Uunless it is done...by a poooollliiicceeeman. Or an ariissssstoocrat -- Joe Strummer
Bush 2. How depressing, corrupt, unlawful and tragically absurd the administration's world view actually is...how low the moral bar has been lowered...and (though I know I'm capable of intellectually lazy notions of collective guilt) how complicit our silence as citizens is...Nixon, a true fiend, looks like a paragon of virtue next to the criminally incompetent robber barons now raiding the present and future.
.....you don't deserve any more until you can come up with your very own "Bush is a Punk" compilation CD, in honor of John "High Fidelity" Cusack.......
Here's mine (clocks in at 48:10):
- Wire - "Mr. Suit"
- Minutemen - "Viet Nam"
- Vaselines - "Dum-Dum"
- The Feelies - "Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)"
- Joy Division - "Heart and Soul"
- Half Japanese - "Charmed Life"
- Television - "See No Evil"
- Sebadoh - "Love To Fight"
- Sex Pistols - "Liar"
- PJ Harvey - "Snake"
- Sebadoh - "License to Confuse"
- Talking Heads - "Life During Wartime"
- Joy Division - "Candidate"
- Sebadoh - "I Smell A Rat"
- Wire - "Options R"
- Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition"
- Iggy & the Stooges - "Search and Destroy"
Okay, since you've been good, here's some more, and the link!
I guess the exception is when and if Dick Cheney thinks we have a good reason to torture and deny due process. If these men are not impeached and thrown in jail, we truly are approaching the end of days. Thank God Bill Moyers is still around. Here he offers a very good and very compelling cry from the heart of a citizen who finds himself deeply disturbed, but unbowed by this wave of collective insanity. He is one of the best we have left. My own parents had deep faith, they saw the earth as a gift from God. They took Christ seriously -- the gospel, his words and acts -- and thought it their Christian duty to speak out against the desecration of God's great gifts: life, earth, freedom, and civilization. Nowhere could they find any endorsements of "wars of choice." Jesus was a radical to be sure, but in an opposite way from the war mongers and profiteers who use his name today. I can't get past "thou shalt not kill" and look at this carnage and see any rational way one could say these men follow Jesus Christ. Alas, the money lenders have well and truly invaded the temple.
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