I'm watching the news and I'm thinking "is everyone fucking nuts?"; people are duct taping the cracks in their homes and turning in their neighbors for not looking the same as them. Meanwhile, a federal judge has denied hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers the right to march thru the streets of their own town this coming Saturday.

I can't watch the news so as usual I'm turning to music for some sense of solace in all this. My usual suspects for times like these: (in no particular order)

US Forces- Midnight Oil

Generals and Majors- XTC

Call It Democracy- Bruce Cockburn

The Call Up- Clash

Rumours of War- Billy Bragg

Short Memory- Midnight Oil

People Have the Power- Patti Smith

The Land of Plenty- Leonard Cohen

Postman- David Baerwald

Ashes to Ashes- Steve Earle

Mercenaries- John Cale

Testify- Rage Against the Machine

Anybody have any suggestions or recommendations?