What Dan should have learned from Jonah is that people like to be told how smart they are not the truth.

you should get extra points for L&M [edit: not exactly sure were that K came from]

nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J3QHzbK9jY

one with more melodrama

its a Danzig song but Billy's version seems creepier to me.

I think being for English Independence is just a genius way to show support for all the other Independence movements. I guess including Welsh and Cornish?

Maybe someday London and the home counties will be all that is left of the empire.

like veti, animad and per?

I sometimes think the use of variables and continuum might be the wrong way to understand individuals maybe short stories or poems would be better.

Fair weather fan of Wilco huge fan of Mermaid Ave and Uncle Tupelo .

I read this as a group league of people opposed to social mobility.

I was not far off

I have heard Mr. Bragg supports an independent England.

I think we evolved in the context of tribe and clan.

This Neo-local world seems not to be built for introverts or much of anyone else normal.

I think the key part bit here is just world theory it is easy to love a world that loves you back.

To me the morality of Optimists is suspicious.

I brings to mind a George Orwell piece where he says something to the effect of in colonizing cultures only conservatives can be happy because other people understand their wealth and comfort is paid for by other peoples misery.

If George did not say that I will assume authorship for myself.

I think this Billy Bragg song treats this issue nicely to have and to have not - Billy Bragg