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A Riot in Berkeley Tonight

There are a lot of crazy, radicals at every college. It is a time for experimentation, learning, and fun. At Northwestern in 1984, there was supposedly a holocaust denying professor and much protest. There were people throwing some type of animal blood on certain speakers. There were kids living in cardboard boxes protesting Apartheid, and …

My 100 Essential Albums Part 3: The Clash That is “Essential”

Every real Clash release is essential, but “essentially” only mostly the “real” ones. I think people ought to know that we’re anti-fascist, anti-violence and anti-racist. We’re against ignorance. – Joe Strummer My Essential 100 Albums: Sort of Taking on the Nolan Dalla Challenge – Part One: a Statement of Purpose My Essential 100 Albums and …

The Blue Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back

I just saw a video someone shared on Facebook that was in no way supposed to be funny, but it was funny to me. It wasn’t supposed to be funny, it was actually just facts and science. It amazingly wasn’t there to make a political point either, but it did to me. It was funny …