Category: Music

We hardly knew yea.

Playlist for a great acoustic Gogol Bordello set on Interface. A sample below.

And Paul pretty much sums up my feelings today:

The Years of Shame

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Read Paul’s whole post.

Got bless everyone called to serve and sacrifice, your families and loved ones. But the last 10 years didn’t need to suck as bad as they did.