From the man wrote “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar. I wonder why the kids don’t know all these lyrics? They certainly didn’t appear in my own songbook of American folk music. This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I went walking a…
JohnKerry.com – Senator John Kerry’s Speech at Brown University to be delivered later today. Opening remarks and thank you’s then… This horrifying disaster has shown Americans at their best — and their government at its worst. And that’s what I’ve come to talk with you about today. The incompetence of Katrina’s response is not reserved to a hurricane. There’s an enormous gap between Americans’ daily expectations and government’s daily performance. And the gap is growing between the enduring strength of…
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Sierra Club’s National Convention and Expo on September 10, 2005 in San Francisco. Kennedy received the Sierra Club’s William O. Douglas Award on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance. It’s a stealth attack. The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to conceal its radical agenda from the American people, including Orwellian rhetoric. When they want to destroy the…
Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Free association is described as a “psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” I say, and you think… Less filling:: (tastes great – no! I refuse!) tastes stale Glue:: horse Surprise me:: guess Model:: metaphor Fee:: hidden Microphone:: sing Choices:: navigate To the bone:: chilled Run!:: Hide! Appeal:: plea
Ship of Fools: The Mystery Worshipper I have projects to attend to today – so here’s just a fun thing. Check out reviews of the “Mystery Worshipper.” This is one of my favorite features at Ship of Fools.
A must read, this article contrasts the behavior of the working-class people of New Orleans with that of the various officials they had to deal with. A very interesting dispatch. Quite naturally, we asked, “If we can’t go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?†The guards told us that this was our problem–and no, they didn’t have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous…