This Makes Me Love Wilco Even More.

This is from a Billboard article about a Wilco show involving Jeff Tweedy involving a rowdy fan at a concert in Missouri, which you can read here:

Jeff Tweedy has spoken out about an incident during Wilco's Monday night (Oct. 16) concert in Springfield, Mo., where he punched a male fan who had jumped onto the stage and grabbed the singer from behind. In a post on Wilco's Web site, the band says it felt unsafe all night long and had already endured a stage-crasher earlier in the show.

And this is possibly the best quote ever:

"I feel terrible," Tweedy told the crowd following the incident. "I don't like to punch someone in the face. It sucks. We can make it better. I was having a really good time, but now I want to go sit down somewhere. But we can't do that. We're not gonna let those bastards win."

I think alot of people are with me in that when you go to a show, you really don't want to put up with drunk assholes who pretty much ruin it for a lot of other people who pay decent money to see a show. If it were a Sex Pistols or Yanni show, I could understand. But come on, Wilco? Do you really need to act like a six year old for your friends' approval? I hope that every person in a band or in the crowd has the wherewithal to punch anyone like this in the face every fucking time. And if you see me acting like this, punch me in the face, too.

WTF?

If anyone out there can see any kind of rationalization in this article would you please let me know. Is this seriously who we pay money to for their opinions. Where do I sign up? I can make no sense with the best of them, and I'll do it only for beer.

On Our Way Again.

Although we are all beside ourselves with the current scandal in the House of the Republicans, it might be a good time to take a step back and see what the situation will really mean in the grand scheme of things in this election season.

As we all know, the Foley Sex Scandal is doing no favors to the Republican bid to retain control of Congress. And with most races extremely tight and not much light at the end of the tunnel for Republicans with the War in Iraq, the Economy, Abramoff, etc., this comes at probably the worst time for the GOP. A month before the election.

But before we get too excited, remember a month is a very long time in politics.

I'm concerned that this whole Foley excercise will just be a footnote in the history books, and could even be a blessing in disguise for the Bush Administration. Why? Because under the radar of all of the press coverage of the Foley/House Leadership scandals and the equally tragic and salacious school shootings in PA, this headline is out there:



Thousands of Sailors Deploy Tuesday


Of course, the Navy and the Government will tell you that this is a routine deployment, but, they'll be in the Persian Gulf sometime around Oct. 21. Still plenty of time to launch an attack on Iran if the poll numbers aren't playing into the favor of the GOP. Even though Iran is still ten years away from building a nuclear weapon.

So will this happen? Will we conduct a first strike, possibly nuclear, on Iran? We couldn't have a country possessing nuclear weapons, who, under control of religious zealots, could possibly overthrow a stable regime and throw a country into civil war and instability, can we. It wouldn't be right.

Karl Rove is promising an "October Surprise", and it's a good bet that this is it. I'm not sure what that does for the elections, because I can't imagine the American people standing behind another war while we're currently losing two other wars. Three if you count the made up "War on Terror."

But, according to TIME in an aricle they wrote last month:

What's going on? The two orders offered tantalizing clues. There are only a few places in the world where minesweepers top the list of U.S. naval requirements. And every sailor, petroleum engineer and hedge-fund manager knows the name of the most important: the Strait of Hormuz, the 20-mile-wide bottleneck in the Persian Gulf through which roughly 40% of the world's oil needs to pass each day. Coupled with the CNO's request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed--but until now largely theoretical--prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran.

It's getting pretty close and it's getting to be a reality. And it's going under cover of a scandal which is taking all the attention away from what is turning into a run up to another conflict that we don't need.


The Republicans may need anything they can get to bolster support in the current political environment. If this is the last resort, the fallout will be devestating. So let's try to multitask on this one and get out ALL of the bad news that has become of the Republican Party and this Administration. This is not just a few bad apples, this is a disease that will take our great country down much farther that what it already is.