Studs Terkel

How long until three quarters of the population is living underwater? (Disclaimer: I'd like to think that most people would just move to higher ground if water started to rise along the world's coasts; plus it wouldn't really be instanteous, although it could be relatively quickly. I just don't give most of humanity too much credit for being all that intelligent.)

You know what I love about the "terrorist" threat? There really is no description of what a terrorist is. A couple days ago, I read a news article that 5 people in Britain had been arrested for "terrorist" charges. The article had no indication of what those wrongful activities may have included, probably because nobody really knows. The same thing goes for any of those that have been held in America on similar charges. The only good thing I can say is at least they don't have Thought Police. Yet.....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/29/us.iran.ap/index.html The problem that I see is that Bush will use his presidential authority to authorize air strikes in Iran, which will most likely include bombing their nuclear sites. This will be brought on just by the US saying that Iran is involved in troops being killed in Iraq. As long as that rhetoric keeps up, we will, more likely than not, commence air strikes in Iran if only for a couple of days. From there, things will prolly only go downhill. The idea will probably look a lot like the "shock and awe" plan that was set upon Iraq at the start of the war. I'm sure that the hopes we have, if we were to commence air strikes, would be that we create enough turmoil and havoc that we could also cause an uprising and regime change to take place. But weigh that against the negatives and any reasonable human being would probably come to the conclusion that that logic just don't work. However, I don't think we are fortunate enough to have reasonable people anywhere in this administration.

Bob Dylan-What Good Am I?

I get my news from Fox News because their commercials told me that they were 'fair and balanced.' I don't think a commercial would lie to me now, would it?

Anybody have any good books to recommend. I just finished reading "The Lucifer Principle" and am now working on "The Physics of Consciousness," but after that I don't know what I'm going to read. So any suggestions on any books, new or classics, which I should read?

Yeah, let's hope so. The only thing is that the American public can be swayed back by the Iranians looking like the aggressor. I really hate to draw the comparison, but Hitler was elected and kept power without having anywhere near the full support of his people. I only bring up the example, because, in the footsteps of Hitler, this president has attacked two countries so far. Then he goes out and says just this week that he would go after Iran "insurgents" in Iraq. But I always thought that we were fighting the "insurgents" for the last 3+ years, so why make that statement now? He just really seems to be egging Ahmadinejad on and trying to push him to make one false move that will be reason enough to attack him. But, I really, really hope that I am wrong here.

Just some thoughts on the topic, because I think this president and the people around him are just crazy enough to do so. Especially with the publicized war of words we have been seeing between Bush and Ahmadinejad in the past week or so.

Read the book, The United States of Europe, it seems to give a rather good discussion of what a united Europe would look like. Although I am just taking the author's word for it, not having been their myself. I'd how he wouldn't be lying to me.

Light Grenades is good, but it is probably a middle ground album for them. Morning View would be the best, followed by A Crow Left of the Murder and Make Yourself. The best thing about them is that they progress so much as a band, and their music has really evolved from their earlier stuff like S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

The Shins-Wincing The Night Away Incubus-Light Grenades TV On The Radio-Return To Cookie Mountain Daniel Johnston-Late Great Daniel Johnston

Marcy Playground-Sex & Candy

Matthew Good Band- Going All The Way

Hope that he releases a good copy of his cover of NIN "Hurt" sometime. I have a recording from his show in Buffalo when he sang "Hurt" along with Melissa McClelland, but it's rather crappy.