I don’t care what your doing, you need to stop it right now and go read this woman’s blog.  Yes, I’m serious.

It’s an anonymous blog from a young Iraqi woman talking about her life, her hopes, her fears, and the sheer brutality and anti-human horror of life in occupied Bahdad.  I know all the conservative assholes who keep goign on about how “we” are “winning” in Iraq will never take the time to read it - or any of the other accounts from people who’ve lived through the hell our Fuher has engineered - but for the rest of us who continue to go on with our daily lives doing the best we can to get by even though we know there is a horrible crime being committed in our name, for the rest of us it’s incredibly important to stop, shut the fuck up about everything we THINK we know, and just listen.

Baghdad Burning.

Go. There. Now.

Posted: October 14th, 2008 under culture war, gender & feminism, news, politrix.
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Good news today - for once - the EU’s ongoing empire-building project has had another major setback thanks to the Irish voters who stood up and voted down the Lisbon Treaty that would have shifted far more power to the EU’s central government and away from local governments. Here’s a few good articles that cover some of the basics for those who are just hearing about this issue for the first time:

Ireland’s vote on the Lisbon treaty: no means no - The Times Online

EU powers try to isolate Ireland after treaty defeat

Ireland rejects E.U. reform treaty: Victory or big mistake?

EU: Irish ‘No’ Vote On Lisbon Treaty Blows Hole In EU Integration Project

There are lots of other articles as well, check your local papers and if they’re not covering the story write them to complain. This is big, and people need to know about it.

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Posted: June 14th, 2008 under news, politrix.
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This one is another from Keith Olberman, who seems to posses an extraordinary combination of naiveté and backbone - that is to say he’s naive enough to believe the system of government we have in America *should* work (and presumably would work if only “the right people” were running it), but he’s got enough of a spine that instead of just getting sad and disillusioned when things obviously aren’t working, he’s willing to stick his neck out and make a fuss.

As for me? Of course Bush is a criminal. Duh. We knew that from the moment he seized power with a rigged election back in 2000. But I can’t claim to be at all surprised by the Democrats complete failure to impeach the bastard and lock his mass-murdering ass up. We have a 1-party system in America with 2 faces, and the fact is that both our major political parties are solidly in favor of continuing American military domination of the planet for as long as possible (basically until it bankrupts us all). It was Kennedy who sent troops into Vietnam, after all; and even the liberal left’s darling Obama has been pretty overt about wanting to send US troops into Pakistan and has echoed Bush’s saber-rattling against Iran.

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Posted: June 10th, 2008 under news.
Comments: 1

An open letter to all my fans, friends, supporters, & comrades.

Ya know, it’s funny how much little things - trivial things - mean. Take names for instance, a few letters, a syllable or three, a totally meaningless abstract symbol - and yet it can contain a persons entire identity, history, sense of self even. It’s huge. I’ve been thinking about names a lot lately, not least because I’ve noticed that there are an awful lot of folks running around calling themselves Lynx. I can’t blame ‘em, after all Lynx’s are pretty damn cool, but it does present a bit of a problem for me since as an independent musician all I really have is my name and whatever name recognition I’ve earned in the last decade or so since I started making music and in the last seven years since I released my first album. Read more »

Posted: April 16th, 2008 under music, news, personal.
Comments: 14

alright, the verdict is finally in on my months-long experiment offering higher-quality mp3’s for sale on this site, and it’s a failure. I’ve taken down the online store for good and just posted up a donation button on the mp3 page. the good news is that since i moved all my albums to Jamendo I no longer have to pay for bandwidth to let ya’ll download them, so that eliminates one of the big costs that moved me to add for-sale mp3’s in the first place.

I’ve also added a player/download widget on the MP3 page for the new Beltaine’s Fire album, which is now also free.

I haven’t felt much like writing on this blog lately, been putting most of my writing time into working on new lyrics for the new Beltaine’s Fire album. We’re going into the studio to start recording it on March 16th and I still need to put a bit more polish on some of our new songs. Good times! If you absolutely can’t wait for some more of my writing or just have lots of time to waste, I did post up a new article on CelticAnarchy.org yesterday, prompted partly by the recent events in Kosovo. I’ll have more new stuff up here sooner or later. Probably sooner. We’ll see.

Posted: February 21st, 2008 under news.
Comments: 2