Too many times you’re gonna go out with a-walkin’
Too many times you come out late
Too many times you set yourself out of the scene, it makes you walk up straight
It makes you walk up straightToo many times you trade the bottle for the body
One drop of breath and one for skin
You say nobody knows the truth about your body, are you entirely thin?
Are you entirely thin?But if I were a good man, would it really happen?
Would you walk me home and everyday from work
But maybe I’m a good man, wouldn’t let it happen
I believe in love, I’m married to my workCause I can be a father, I can be a brother, I can be a flower, rise up in the dirt
We were born to live here, We were born to die here
And you know this when you work
Yeah, you watch me when you workWell, you are free from the work or the silence
Well, you know what to do with your demands
It’s not sure
You got a few ideasAnd when you wake from this shell of this body
Or will you sink your ghostly man?
Well, it’s not holy
You’ve got something better up your sleeveToo many times you’ll keep your love dry for your family
And let it over in your sleep
You’ll overtry to hold some burden like a man, something you can keep
Something you can keepYou smell the scent of something burning in the kitchen
He smells the future on the lawn
These are the things we’ve come to recognize as truth, we cut the right into wrong
We cut the right into wrongBut if I were a good man, would it really happen?
Would you walk me home and everyday from work
But maybe I’m a good man, wouldn’t let it happen
I believe in love, I’m married to my workCause I can be a father, I can be a brother, I can be a flower, rise up in the dirt
We were born to live here, We were born to die here
And you know this when you work
Yeah, you watch me when you workIt seems that we be smooth like pebbles
But now we get scared like our parents
Or somewhere fake
It’s just a waste of moneyAnd when you wake up tomorrow, my son
Will you be the father of someone terrible
It will it shine, throughout your life
It won’t bury you, cause we knowSomewhere in the darkness, you will find love, baby you will find love
You will feel younger girl
And you will feel young.~Voxtrot, Rise Up In the Dirt
March 23, 2009 archive
Mar 23 2009
Quote for Discussion: Voxtrot
Mar 23 2009
A Diary A Day – Let’s Name Names at that crap table
I have been asked some interesting questions in my series A Diary A Day. Like is it possible a single home mortgage is represented in multiple bundles, or has trigger multiple insurance payments.
Let explore the possibilities below the fold.
Mar 23 2009
Introducing Sunday Weekly Torture “Round-up”
Also posted at Daily Kos and Invictus
The Sunday Weekly Torture “Round-up” is intended to be a new regular feature at Daily Kos, capturing stories on the ongoing torture scandal, especially those that might otherwise escape notice. At the same time, we will strive to present an overview of important new developments in the drive to hold the U.S. government responsible for its war crimes, in addition to covering stories concerning torture from other countries, as time and space permit. (Alas, the U.S. has no monopoly on this hideous practice.)
The editors for the WTR are myself, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, and Meteor Blades and we will rotate each week. Interesting or important news or tips concerning torture or civil liberties issues bearing upon it can be emailed to any of these individuals.
There were many new developments this week: the CIA announced it would withhold a list describing 1000s of documents related to the destruction of videotapes depicting torture; an ex-Bush administration official told of administration indifference to evidence of innocence for the great bulk of “enemy combatants”; a major lawsuit against Pentagon contractors accused of torture was allowed to proceed; a “released” Guantanamo hunger striker was refused more humane prison conditions, and more.
Mar 23 2009
Come Home America: An Interview With Truth Teller William Greider
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.
I first became aware of William Greider after the publication of his 1981 Atlantic Monthly profile of President Reagan’s embattled Office of Management and Budget Director (“OMB”), David Stockman. At the time I was just a kid and the Reagan administration insisted they could simultaneously balance the budget, cut taxes and increase defense spending exponentially.
Greider’s reporting however exposed that even Stockman, doubted the fiscal prudence of Reaganomics. After the article’s publication, Stockman absorbed public humiliation when President Reagan took him “to the woodshed.” I trace that article as a seminal moment in my own political awareness.
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