I'm willing to sing about punching Nazis, but I'm not willing to seriously advocate that doing so (or censoring them) is ethically and morally right.

Ken White (Popehat) has an excellent post as to why not. (oddly enough, -do- read the comments here).

This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth, where there are
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So, last night, we came home at, I dunno, 9:30 or so, turned on the hall light as we came in--and it flickered and then went out. Light was dead ( Read more... )

Ok, so here's an idea for a somewhat uncomfortably realistic Mafia-style game ( Read more... )

Kathy Mar's wonderful Drink Up the River has long been a mainstay of my filking -- and I've had occasion to bring it back to the forefront given our current troubles. But as much as I love the song, it was pretty clearly written in '88, and while the nativism of this decades echoes that of three decades ago, it's hardly identical; more, while ( Read more... )

Conflikt happened. It was fun! Lots of hugs, lots of music in the hall and in the filkroom, and as seems to often happen, I collaborated on two songs ( Read more... )

Hear ye, hear ye ( Read more... )

I don't make a lot of Dreamwidth posts. I should probably make more, but I do try to keep DW a little more bloggy and a little less random/social than facebook, if for no other reason than that its primary advantage is archival and searching ( Read more... )

I wrote a thing in a FB comment. Since FB comments are fragile and temporary, it's pretty much necessary that I repost it if I want to keep it ( Read more... )

My Facebook is blowing up with sorrow, despondency, and fear -- my twitter, too (pretty much everyone's twitter ( Read more... )

"I used incense and now there's a cloud of dust around me. Is this normal ( Read more... )