Depleted Uranium

My goal is to post at least weekly. I'm a little late this time. I was listening to KPFA's Flashpoints on my way home from work today. The host Dennis Bernstein was interviewing this retired Army Major about depleted uranium (DU). It seems like I am reminded multiple times a day of the criminal blindness of the people who run this country. How anybody could think it's okay to use a chemically toxic and RADIOACTIVE munition, spraying it all over Iraq, where it not only poisons the environment FOREVER, but evens poisons our own troops!!?! It totally defies the imagination. Yet new revelations of the criminal insanity of the Bush administration come to light almost daily -- torture centers, Valerie Plame, the FTAA, etc. Unbelievable.

So as an antidote, I put on Sleater Kinney's 2002 CD "One Beat" as I drove across the San Mateo bridge. One Beat is the last John Goodmanson produced album and the last on their former label Kill Rockstars. One of the most overtly political SK albums, forged as it was in the post 9/11, Afghanistan invasion period. It's a brilliant CD, and I highly recommend you buy it if you like kickass rock & roll. I will leave you with a quote from the anthemic opening song, One Beat:

If you think like Thomas Edison
could you invent a world for me
now all that’s on the surface
are bloody arms and oil fields
could I turn this place all upside down
shake you and your fossils out? oh oh