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I Have Another Name For What They're Terming Whistleblowers, And That's Righteous Heroes. From Bradley Manning To Snowden. They're People Of Conscience Who Are Unwilling To Turn A Blind Eye To The Crimes Of Our Government. And Thank Goodness For Them.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

In Our Country There's Never Been A Successful Progressive Struggle That Did Not Have A Soundtrack, Whether It Was The Civil Rights Movement, Workers' Rights Movement, Women's Rights Movement. There's Got To Be Songs At The Barricades, And Those Are The Kinds Of Songs That I Try To Write.

For The Millennium [new Year's Eve], You Really Have A Choice To Make. You Either Have To Be Naked With Your Head On Fire And A Shotgun In Bali Or Else You Have To Spend Time With Friends Or Family Around The Fireplace. And I'm Choosing Option B

The Real Estate Agent Had To Go Door-to-door In The Apartment Building We Wanted To Rent, Asking If It Was Ok For This Interracial Family - My Mom Is White And I Was A 1-year-old Half-african Kid - To Live In The Apartment Building.