Blogs wouldn’t be as political if the media would do their job.

I had a hard time accepting it, but too many of my grandparents’ generation brought up the fact that newspapers didn’t report on the Depression for a very long time after it had taken hold. People thought it was a local condition and took to the road to find work, assuming there was work in other places.

The media is playing the same game today – let’s not report the bad news, it’s too depressing and people won’t buy things.

By the way, someone asked me the other day where the protest songs of today are. Where are the singers…where are the Pete Seeger’s and the Jonathan Edwards’ and the Arlo Guthrie’s and the Joan Baez’s. I think we are here, in the blogosphere. Using a different instrument, but still singing. Pass that hat, man. And that joint…chief of staff.

Just wait for it to come around on the guitar.

Speaking of which, I read today (at ellroon’s? I can’t find it at the moment) that alcoholism and drug abuse by active duty military personnel has reached levels not seen since the war in Vietnam. Is anyone surprised? I need what an old girlfriend once called “food and drug administration” fairly frequently myself in the midst of this insanity, and I’m not even the one getting shot at, bombed, and forced to attack or abuse civilians. No wonder the troops turn to booze and drugs.

We are destroying another generation of young soldiers. Have we learned nothing in the intervening decades?

(BTW, thanks for the earworm… I think.)