Star Spangled Apology
This simple but striking piece of animated political commentary was making its way around the Macalester campus in St. Paul this morning and was sent my way by the lads at the BushBoy.com (who I've praised in both these blogs and in my column in this week's City Pages).
I know that history dictates things get awful before they get bearable. Every morning, though, I wake up to the world news and wonder how much more damage has to be done before the ground starts to shift and people finally begin to rage at this administration's hypocrisy.
On Saturday night I was chatting with a musician who had just returned from Europe, where he said that, for the first time, he really felt an anti-American vibe coming from fans. Noteworthy, given that jazz artists have traditionally been celebrated abroad, and typically enjoy immunity from ire aimed at U.S. foreign policy. He also couldn't help but notice upon returning to New York how the citizenry seems to still be shell-shocked or, worse, locked in a dream of denial
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