I had a day off on Friday. The productive ones would have holed up in their rooms, headphones popping out like two bulbous eyes at the side of their heads while their fingers played Tigger the Tiger on their keyboard. Evidently, I'm not "a productive one" because I went into town for books, hamburgers and sweet new Transformers. But sometimes ( Read more... )

I woke this morning to Axl Rose screaming propaganda in my ear. 19 years ago, in the heyday of Guns and Roses, he sang about Civil War, how "it feeds the rich while it buries the poor."It's a song that illustrates the realities of the dual nature of conflict: those who fight and those employed to die. Yet regardless of who has what role, the single ( Read more... )