Hammer Mill Days

Damn it. What the hell is up with this amp, Mitch? It's ticking like a bomb. You didn't, um ... turn my amp into a bomb, did you? Did you? Och, the challenges we face! And this hammer mill in the Winter, full as cold as a north wind blowing across Loch Lomond. What the ... look at me! I've got foreign accent syndrome, the Scottish variety. How the hell did that happen? Where's the justice, damn it? And I don't mean the town justice. I know right where that dude is. Now ... where was I ... ? Oh, right. Let me say up front - and this won't be surprising to longtime followers of Big Green - that this band has always been technologically challenged. Back in the day (1980s and '90s) it was because we had no money. Our PA was held together with duct tape. We used so much of the stuff that there was none left to plug the holes in our duct work. Pretty soon we had to start calling it gaffer tape so that the ducts wouldn't feel left out. But then the gaffer...

Another new year, but still the same bullshit: Trump wants to make one of his rhetorical flourishes a reality because he's afraid of losing his base, and he wants us to pay for it. Welcome to sunny Mexico, my friends. The various pundits and politicians go back and forth on whether Trump's wall is actually a wall (as the president has said many times) or a metaphor for something called "border security", which everyone seems to agree with but no one can define. I think they're missing the obvious answer - Trump is talking about a real "wall", but the fact that he talks about it is itself a metaphor. He wants to build a big wall that will represent the separation barrier between white and brown people. This is the program Trump inherited from other Republicans like Tom Tancredo, Mitt Romney, and many more. Obama's first term, in particular, was an extreme accommodation to it as well. That's likely because the big lie about invading armies of da...