Another Brick In The Wall

so named because it seems like some of the bricks in the stonewall of lying and obfuscation that Bush and Cheney have created are starting to fall. Not much, maybe, and it remains to be seen if the massive structure can be dismantled in any meaningful way before they exit stage left. But maybe cause for some hope.

Because the alternative is the dread of watching these men, who have left a trail of damage and destruction since taking office, govern for two more years as if they don't have anything to lose.

• Libby was found guilty of lying to a Grand Jury and obstructing justice. Will he flip? Or will the pardon come through first?
• The firing of several US Attorneys is being revealed to have been politically motivated, and the backwash is starting to suck at Al Gonzales.
• The dominoes of corrupt Republicans keep falling. Tom delay, Bob Ney, Abramoff, Scanlon, Duke Cunningham, Wooldridge, Domenici lawyering up,
• The Walter Reed scandal, which is nothing if not hideous. The worst? when Bill Young, republican from Florida and until recently Chairman of the House Appropriations Defense sub-Committee , explained it all by saying they knew about the conditions, but preferred to bring private pressure against the Army so there would be no adverse publicity. “We didn't want to embarrass the military”.

Look, many of us predicted these kinds of things. It wasn't like Bush didn't tell everyone exactly the sorts of things he was going to do. He lied about what the results would be, saying it would be kittens and ponies and candy for everyone, with sunshine every day. When in reality, the goal was money and power for the select few, and the back of the hand or the point of a boot for the rest of us, when we aren't performing services for our betters. Which is pretty much how it's come out, with the pleasant addition of explosives, war, and a massively destabilized world.

Dear departed Molly Ivins TOLD us all it would be like this in her book Shrub. She watched the six year trial run in Texas, and reported it in painful detail. So far, the only thing she hasn't accurately predicted was the start of war, which was not predictable (unless, of course, you just might have access to classified information such as the PDB titled “bin Laden determined to Strike In The US”.

How do you take down a huge masonry structure? Bit by bit.



so here are a dozen or so random slices of wall, maybe just enough to weaken and remove one more masonry unit. One at a time, friends and celery, one at a time.

26,501 songs by 759 artists. 102.13 gigs of noise.

1. Regarding Telephones from the album “The Premise Unraveled” by Vehicle Flips
2. Wah-Wah from the album “Besides” by Buffalo Tom Buffalo Tom at Shank Hall. That was a good one.
3. Going Down from the album “M.I.A.: The Complete Germs” by The Germs
4. It's Too Late from the album “Black Sheets of Rain” by Bob Mould Very close to stealing the opening riff from “Do Ya”
5. Grandma Went to Athens, Once from the album “Green Eggs and Crack” by Too Much Joy From their early days, when they still loved Lou Reed a bit too much. Or as singer Tim Quirk said, “I'm obviously using Lou Reed as an excuse to avoid singing.”
6. Dia De Los Muertos - Rezurex from the album “Give 'Em The Boot IV” by Various Artists - HellCat
7. Died 4 U from the album “C'est La Vie” by Marques Bovre & The Evil Twins Ahh, a great lost Madison band. These guys were so good, in an unassuming alt-country way, they deserved much wider recognition.
8. No Beer from the album “Green Eggs and Crack” by Too Much Joy Oh, now that's just frickin weird.
9. Pseudo silk kimono from the album “Misplaced Childhood” by Marillion
10. Martha Polka from the album “Polka Comes To Your Haus!” by Polkacide “Ready on the Left! Ready on the Right! OneTwoThreeFour!”

Polkacide is too good to let it just end, of course, so here's the bonus:

11. Lake of Fire from the album “Meat Puppets II (Bonus Tracks)” by Meat Puppets The original, not the quiet-y Nirvana unplugged version.
12. Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again from the album “Down To Promised Land: 5 Years Of Bloodshot Records [Disc 2]” by Nora O'Connor
13. Gloria from the album “Horses” by Patti Smith One of the classic opening couplets in rock n roll: “Jesus died for somebody's sins/ but not mine.”
14. Family Snapshot from the album “Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel ( III )” by Peter Gabriel
15. Shoot Your Way To Freedom from the album “Nova Mob” by Nova Mob



see ya.