Useless Plastic Crap

G. Troy Pickett has a problem. He's a prisoner of useless plastic crap:

I still buy CD's on the day they are released, every now and then.

But most of the CD's out there suck. The music industry spits out bad record after bad record. They pay Clear Channel to play the record. The crap sells because that's all most people hear, and their standards are constantly being lowered. Then the record companies, now believing that they have a winning formula, put out six CD's that sound like the first, copies of a bad original. They then pay Clear Channel [...]

I'm still waiting for the prices on CDs to fall like they told us they would when they first started making them. In the meantime, I just sing in the shower.

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Studs

Ken Hall is listening to Studs Terkel and talks about what he hears:

If we were a good and just people, we would look to Stud Terkel as one of our elders, and we would heed his words deeply.  

I grew up decades ago with Chicago FM radio piped thru cable around the John Hancock building which gave the broadcast television images an echo. We didn't have a TV, but we had radio, and his WFMT came thru the wire across the corn fields into our radio. And out came his voice, the sound of which is part of the fabric of my childhood experience. Sadly, I know nothing of the man or his thoughts. I know now that its high time I knew more.

Thanks, Ken!

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Hope for America

Mandrake gives Americans reason to hold on to hope at we watch the withering of personal liberties and due process in the wake of 9-11.

Here he decries corruption and the lack of accountability in a non-elected European Commission.

any supposedly democratically-elected body, or similar, claiming to be acting on behalf of "the people", must expect to come under scrutiny and to be held accountable and responsible for its actions. The EU is protected from this and, perhaps as a consequence, stinks of (alleged) corruption.

And here he laments the corrupt and possbibly insane dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

In his first major reshuffle for two years, Mr Mugabe also axed the man seen by many as the last voice of reason, Simba Makoni, the finance minister.

Ok, so things don't look so bad over here after all!

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