Grateful Dead

I love that video. Thanks for posting it Canyon!

Don't know if your familiar with the Playing for Change songs and project...but it seems fitting to current events. ♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥

Hope this new generation provides some inspiration for the previous two. Bravo to your young one Lilly! ~ Teach your children well ~

www.notsoperfectworld.oyla.de The above link is a website that my 12 year old graphic-designer-in-training spent her weekend creating (voluntarily, I might add) Granted the site is rudimentary (it is her first) Granted the range of topics is very broad (animal rights, nature conservancy, "problems in Africa" Granted the majority of the site is still in German (English pages start with "Welcome" in the page list on the left, but she isn't finished translating them yet) Granted the 1st page of the site should give the language choice of English or German (she is still trying to figure out how to do that) But the point is that there are young people who are aware and ready to do something humanitarian. They are not all corrupted by MTV and Fox News, and we can take comfort in that. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain

The Supremes, as I've chronicled here, are now labeled the most conservative court in recent history. The decisions handed down are truly frightening. Ignore them at your own risk, the risk of living as an individual in a free society. 1) Corporations have the same rights as people 2) Miranda warning compromised There are others. The roots of fascism are coded into law.

...on Afghanistan. Lots of heinous stuff about Afghan civilian casualties and State-sponsored help to terrorists from Pakistan and Iran. I'm left wondering how coalition forces will declare victory and leave next year. It is now very clear that the decision to attack was ill-fated and that collateral damage (civilian casualties) are causing a nationalistic backlash. This is the beginning of the end, my friend, in Afghanistan. It's over, if not next year then the year after.

that I also predicted that psychopathic corporations bent on profit will be the death of us all. Free market proponents should be put in Sea Shepherd re-education camps in Antarctica and be prodded with a pitchfork by Paul Watson until they recant.

...into cha-ching land. Tony Hayward be fired today with a $15,000,000 golden parachute. I guess he is getting his life back , unlike some others... I predicted this.... ~ I can't get no satisfaction ~

the idea of feeding that many people, many under the influence of something or other, through one tiny tunnel is moronic in itself. And yes, folks WERE trying to warn the police about a problem about to happen, but were ignored and ridiculed-there were a couple of interviews last night with some of the guys who had spoken up. This was a major exersize in poor planning, as it was known approximately how many people would most likely show up. Of course with an event of that size, things can happen, BUT with such idiotic logistics organization, this tragedy was completely unnecessary. Gonzo-another cause of the panic was the police herding people back IN to the tunnel, due to overcrowding-causing a push back from the opposite direction.Another completely idiotic decision! It seems like the only decision that was made yesterday that made any sense at all was to let the show go on on the venu grounds, so that the people who were inside already would not increase the level of panic. Many of them didn't know what happened before they tried to leave the fest last night. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain

Will it never end? 19 are now dead from the panic in the tunnel at the techno-event called Love-Parade. Over one million (Jeeez, this is making me rethink my field trip to the Polo Grounds) came to this event and the infrastructure couldn't take it. People were bottle-necked in a tunnel (no air in stifling heat) from the train station to the venue and some started climbing up escape routes and fell back into the crowd, causing the panic. Reports have it the cops were warned but did nothing. It was apparent that something was wrong in the venue but the performers were told that the show had to go on for fear of even more panic. My biggest show had to be Rich Stadium in '86'. 90,000 people. After that one I said no more. That many people increases your chances greatly of running into some kind of unpleasant scene, sooner or later. They are already warning people to expect long delays trying to get out of GG Park after SF Parks benefit.