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Monday, April 28, 2003 np: blur - think tank more about that in a second.. This right here is easily one of the most disturbing pieces of legislation i've seen in awhile. i'm not exactly sure what to make of this. is the assumption that all of america is more or less distracted by the late war, or is it that they just don't know enough, or don't care? Tom the Dancing Bug hit the nail on the head this week about the virtual plethora of legislation that was attempted during the war. but the fact is, it works. the average citizen doesn't pay attention to this much stuff. part of that is that a lot of voters (or non-registered people) don't want to take the time. but also, the media doesn't help either. their coverage of these sort of things is hideous at best and it takes attentive people of whom things like this are their job to point them out to us. do i have time to scour the house or senate websites to see new bills and read them in their entirety? probably not. ivins and others who are out there doing the work for us are not nearly in enough number. as a friend of mine noted (and i'm sure he got this from somewhere else, cos it's not a new idea): no politician has ever won an election counting on the intelligence of the people to win the day. the game is lowest-common denominator. and the house always wins. the utter outrage that i would expect from the intelligent people (see? i'll never win an election) is largely missing of late over the bush regime's ridiculous backpeddaling and reason-shift over why we were in iraq in the first place. first it was weapons of mass destruction. some sort of attempt to connect iraq with the incident on 9/11/01. polls taken during the war showed that a larger than expected section of the american public actually thought saddam hussein and osama bin ladin were somehow working together. or as one particularly clueless entity on my campus put it: 'we're in iraq to get osama bin ladin.' christ. allah. buddah. krsna. someone! next the idea was that the weapons were hidden really well. and then the idea is well, they were all moved to syria. or they were all destroyed before we got there. that latter theory especially rubs me wrong because a) we certainly have the satellite technology to tell if large amounts of wmds were being destroyed in iraq. and if they were..wouldn't they then have been in compliance with the UN resolution? and an invasion 'unnecessary?' kind of rings false. and now..the official party line..well..we didn't lie, but we did kind of exaggerate. as if some of us didn't already expect that little revelation. so the truth is that other potential factors were played up in order to expediate a 'global show' of massive american power. god bless us, every one. on the bright side (and yeah, that's meant a bit sarcastically..as if this is the ail all of our sins) we received the new blur album at the station today. think tank is their first album that hasn't had the primary input of original member graham coxon. he's on a brief sabbatical from alcholism and the band has a former guitarist from the verve filling in for him. so now that damon albarn is free to take his ambitions and run with it...it's not quite as a disaster as i'd worried. the album on the whole is like a less satisfying version of 13, their previous record. but there are glimmers of really brilliant touches throughout the record. blur is a band that never fails to deliver at least half an album full of really good music. i don't think there's a bad song on it, but i'm also incredibly biased, as blur is a band that has always been one of my very favourites. they haven't had quite the successful continuous run of genius as their other surviving brit-pop purveyor (and of course by that i mean pulp) but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. they've been forging their way through new territory for three albums now. and the results are not bad at all. posted by J. Neas | 4/28/2003 05:43:00 PM
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