It's a technical term...

Remember Athens, Tennessee

Looks like it's up to the citizens of Quartzite -- along with the mayor, those 9 officers -- to step up and place the police chief, his goons and the town council members under arrest. There's sure enough probable cause.
This is EXACTLY why we have the second amendment in the Bill of Rights.


liberty & justice,

sj

Les Feuilles Mortes

After hearing this rendition of "Autumn Leaves" by the impeccable Eva Cassidy, I may never be able to do this song again,myself. And I'll certainly never play it, or hear it ever again without thinking of her.

She died in 1996.
Only in her 30's.
Cancer.

I never heard her or heard of her before the other day.
Never had a chance to tell her all the feelings she conjured up in me with her styling of this song, all the pain of all the memories of all the losses of a lifetime.
And add to them one more: that I missed her.


I hope you dig her.


sj

This is What Heroism Looks Like

Veterans take the point.
Standing up.
Speaking out.
December, 2010.

sj

“Hope will only come now when we physically defy the violence of the state. All who resist, all who are here today keep hope alive. All who succumb to fear, despair, and apathy become an enemy of hope. They become in their passivity agencies of injustice.”

-- Chris Hedges

Got Ya Covered

I really dig this Beatles cover of Smokey Robinson's hit tune.
The early stuff by the Fab Four is my favorite. It had a raw, simple,honest quality that appeals to me.

sj

Not Good

Requiem