MY REAL LIFE ROCK TOP TEN
(with apologies to Greil Marcus, who no longer writes it).
In no particular order:
1. KDOX X-15 X-TREME RADIO
Mount Hood Community College, my place of distracted drudgery, has a little radio station, KDOX, which happens to have an online presence as well. When they're not yelping in frat boy cadences about "X-treme Radio!!" and broadcasting ( Read more... )
In no particular order:
1. KDOX X-15 X-TREME RADIO
Mount Hood Community College, my place of distracted drudgery, has a little radio station, KDOX, which happens to have an online presence as well. When they're not yelping in frat boy cadences about "X-treme Radio!!" and broadcasting ( Read more... )
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The rationale isn't "everyone was doing it" the rationale is "it was legally required, he convinced one of his teachers to vouch for him so he never had to attend a single meeting, his father was an Anti-nazi police officer, and he deserted the German Army."
I feel like the Nazi argument eclipses everything that's actually a valid point about his beliefs and the direction in which he's likely to take the church, which is a scary enough story on its own. The Nazi thing isn't where the danger is with that man; it's a skeleton that almost the entire German population over a certain age struggles with, and in that crowd, his hands are pretty damn clean.
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You have an excellent point, and it's callous--not to mention hypocritical--for me to condemn someone who has had to make far more difficult (even life-threatening) choices than I have. And he mostly made the right ones, given the circumstances.
But there's something grievously disheartening about moving from someone who (considerable problems aside) was known for his heroic leadership of resistance against oppression to one who simply sidestepped the issue entirely.
Were Bush so inclined, he could claim his nonparticipation in the Air National Guard was a blow against American Imperialism.
But desertion heroic is not.
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Konono No.1 sounds amazing but I haven't found too much yet... off to dig more...
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It's good to have you back! Good luck in all your ventures.
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