Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 38 Editor's Choice: 4
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Odd
[Read the article: Why do gyms play such crappy music?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Portland (Oregon), the gym I belong to will only play the worst hits of the '70s and '80s. There was so much good music made in those years, too bad they never play any of it.
No one will ever agree. But that's why ipods were invented. My constantly changing workout playlist currently contains:
- Million Young -- American Analog Set
- He War -- Cat Power
- I Knew This Nurse -- Crime
- San Francisco's Doomed -- Crime
- Start Choppin -- Dinosaur Jr.
- Merit -- Dirtbombs
- Natural Man -- Dirtbombs
- Refried Dreams -- Dirtbombs
- Little World -- Evangeline
- Mt. Pleasant Isn't -- Evens
- Blue Thunder -- -- Galaxie 500
- Return the Gift -- Gang Of Four
- Found Out About You -- Gin Blossoms
- Game of Pricks -- Guided By Voices
- Closer You Are -- Guided By Voices
- My Valuable Hunting Knife -- Guided By Voices
- Gold Star For Robot Boy -- Guided By Voices
- I'm Bored -- Iggy Pop
- Lust For Life -- Iggy Pop
- Brea -- Jawbox
- Motorist -- Jawbox
- You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory -- Johnny Thunders
- No Wow -- Kills
- Wake Up Dolores -- Los Lobos
- Don't Give It Up Now -- Lyres
- Help You Ann -- Lyres
- American Ruse -- MC5
- Kick Out Jams -- MC5
- N-Sub Ulysses -- Nation of Ulysses
- AAA -- Paul Westerberg
- Trigger Cut -- Pavement
- Nonalignment Pact -- Pere Ubu
- Sheela Na Gig -- PJ Harvey
- Lets Kill Ourselves -- Ponys
- Man with a Golden Helmet -- Radio Birdman
- One Way Street -- Saints
- This Perfect Day -- Saints
- Seminole Wind -- Sally Timms
- 2+2 -- Seger Liberation Army
- Master Blaster -- Stevie Wonder
- Loose -- Stooges
- Brand New Love -- Superchunk
- Run Run Run -- Velvet Underground and Nico
- Adult Books -- X
- Y Control -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Set to shuffle, and I'll never have to hear "eye of the tiger" again.
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Blake's 'dark Satanic Mills'
[Read the article: One iPhone to rule them all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The "dark Satanic Mills" are actually William Blake's, from his poem Jerusalem.
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
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Under no circumstances
[Read the article: How Hillary could tank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Under no circumstances will I vote for Hillary Clinton. If she manages to get the Democratic nomination I will either leave the top of the ballot blank or vote for a third party candidate.
As Bill Clinton's closest advisor she cannot run away from his legacy of pro-corporate economic policies and criminal foreign policy: attacking poor women with their "ending welfare as we know it" act; increasing corporate media concentration with the Telecommunications Act of 1996; the sanctions on Iraq that, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, by 1995 had killed more than 550,000 children (Clinton's Sec of State Madelyn Albright pronounced this "worth it"); Bill Clinton was the first president to use "extraordinary rendition"; the creation of the WTO with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) of 1995 - Hillary shares responsibility for all of it. And of course for NAFTA, as well.
In 1992 I believed Bill Clinton when he said he had reservations about NAFTA and wanted tougher worker and environmental protections in the bill. So I held my nose and voted for him. Once elected Clinton added labor and environmental "side agreements" to NAFTA that have never yet been enforced, because they are unenforceable. According to Harper's Magazine publisher John R MacArthur in his book The Selling of "Free Trade", "the day of the House vote on NAFTA, Clinton behaved in many ways like the leader of the opposition Republican Party".
Never again. If we reward this kind of duplicity, we are just asking for more knives in our backs.
Hillary's record in the Senate has been scandalous. She fell all over herself handing increased powers to Bush: she voted to give him open-ended war-making power, she voted for the PATRIOT Act. Now she's joining in the campaign to promote war with Iran! In all this Hillary is either acting totally cynically or she's actually a committed war-monger and enemy of civil rights. I really don't care which it is, both motivations are equally despicable.
Is it any wonder Hillary gets so much respect from the corporate media? She has shown that she is committed to their agenda. Which is why Rupert Murdoch held a fund-raiser for her campaign. The mainstream media are trying damn hard to manufacture an aura of inevitability around Hillary. When they say a candidate is "electable" what they really mean is "acceptable to us"
Yeah, I'll stand back and let a Republican win rather than vote for Hillary. Don't let the corporate sycophants in the media fool you, I'm far from the only one.