This was originally a response to a trite, kneejerk-politics T-shirt design on DA. I decided to make it a journal post.

You are the thing you claim to hate. You are the bastard child of a media run by people too dumb to get into politics or too stupid to get into college, and supported by people too eager for revolt to bother to find truth. Journalism is dead. Now we have a sociopolitical megaphone, a network of spin and collectivization of opinion. Freedom requires tolerance of the wrong, the stupid, the ignorant, NOT legislation of a united popular opinion,…

Who the–is Billie Joe from Green Day their lead singer now?
Who designed their album cover, Hawthorne Heights?
This is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
We should go to one of their shows and crash it. Every one of you, find a Norma Jean show and crash it.
Jumping on stage, punching the lead singer, stealing the mike CRASH that sucker.
You will be remembered forever always.
You might even get thrown out! ^_^

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n301/oktology/NormaJeanisdead.jpg

Norma Jean
The Chariot

A glass can only spill what it contains!

This song is incredible. I mean…mewithoutYou's lyrics have always been amazing, but these make me want to scream they're so incisive, and cutting in that soft the-ones-being-cut-won't-even-know manner.

Go here to listen: http://www.purevolume.com/mewithoutyou

And here are the lyrics, close as I can tell. Pay particular attention to the second stanza ("Like peacocks wanderin' the walkways of the zoo…"). AUGH! *grin*

A cat came driftin'
my porch from the outside cold,
And with eyes closed drinkin'
Warm milk from my bowl, thought
"Nobody hears me, nobody hears me,
As I…