So I hate to depart from the intended nature of this blog, but too much is going on at the Republican National Convention to ignore. Rioters being put in jail, George Bush still sounding stupid, Rage Against the Machine raging a capella, John McCain defending his love for ABBA... oiey!
So a quick link rundown here:
Matt at You Aint No Picasso has a couple of friends who were arrested on charges of felony rioting while taking pictures of the rioters at the RNC...
Check out Bush's speech while it is still up here (BTW, in case you forgot, John McCain was a prisoner of war)... "When he takes office next January..." made be shudder and I got a bit queasy.
Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello have always been pretty badass. This just shows how badass they are (perhaps alluding to how much more badass they could get). After having their show effectively prevented from occurring by security and police, de la Rocha and Morello, determined to perform, staged an a capella sing-a-long of "Bulls on Parade" and "Killing in the Name Of." Before and after the songs, the duo preach to the crowd about how the cops aren't afraid of the Ragers, but the audience. In addition, they express the hope that the rubber bullets, batons and tear gas aimed at the crowd will one day be turned at "those jackasses over at the RNC." Very cool, guys.
Here's a classic protest song from another controversial war. According to Jack Bruce, he wrote it intending it to be as anti-Vietnam as he could make it. (I tried to find an actual video of the fellas to no avail).
On a lighter note, one of the funniest posts I've read in a while (from over at It's Hard to Find a Friend) concerns John McCain defending his favorite song, according the Blender, being ABBA's "Dancing Queen." It is followed by a classic Obama clip.
That is all.
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