March 2009

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Music
Radicals co-opted
03.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

So over the weekend I came into possession of a $15 iTunes gift card. Browing through the offerings I looked for some of the more obscure albums I used to own but lost with most of my vinyl collection (entirely due to my own laziness). One of them was We Don’t Want Your Fucking War, a […]
Politics
In which I destroy my political viability within the system
03.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It is past time to repeal this nation’s counter-productive and repressive drug laws. The erosion of civil liberties that have accompanied the last twenty years of drug policing should be reason enough, but the added benefit of taxing a legal product should add impetus for change. The main danger with such a shift in policy is that […]
Self-referential
Quid
03.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I was going to write about the frothing hysteria surrounding the retention bonuses at AIG, especially the preening idiocy on display by our political class, but too obviously the saliency of intent, contract, and outcome is not going to silence the braying. So I will be lazy again and use Typealyzer to find out, yes, […]
Music
Get Up On It Like This
03.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Lazy, yeh, but I seen it on another bloke’s blog: 1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY? […]