purchase [Little Criminals - R Newman]
purchase [ Hearts and Bones - P Simon]
No, there was not even the slightest premonition
that the departing theme was going to get any more real than a nod to Memorial
Day (SMM tries to theme to calendar events such as Thanksgiving..) Really.
That's not fake news.
The driving force behind the War/Peace theme was
recognition of Memorial Day. If you follow SMM, you already know that the site
tries to periodically link its theme to the calendar. This, of course, was 10
days ago.
As such, I don't feel a great need to apologize
for fueling the current rage (if in fact we did, in our own limited way), but
there seems to be a need to bring things around to a more mellow place with
another post about War/Peace. I DID say that waging peace is almost equally as
fraught with its own issues as waging war (see the furor over Lennon's sleep in
for peace). I had no premonitions of the future as I chose to go with a
"1968-themed" song about an ongoing war resulting from American
political decisions 50 years ago. Yes, I referenced current political issues
(bone spurs, senator's sons...), but they were wild shots, certainly not targeting
a news item I had not yet heard about.
That said, maybe we can do our civic best to
guide the conversation away from civil war (and bands with names like Guns 'n Roses, the Clash)
