Too many guns. It's been said too many times. The other day I was speaking with my son and I wondered aloud at one point in our conversation what the world would be like without guns. "We wouldn't have Halo, Dad," he said, with very little irony. I had to agree with him, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go...

A buddy just sent me this tune today by LCD Soundsystem, and I'm loving it:

North American Scum

Oh oh oh oh i don't know, i don't know, oh, where to begin we are north americans and for those of you who still think we're from england we're not, no. we build our planes and our trains till we think we might die, far from North America, where the buildings are old and you might have lots of mimes. aha, oh, oh. i hate the feelin' when you're looking at me that way cause we're north americans but if we act all shy, it’ll make it ok makes it go away.

oh I don't know, I don't know, oh, where to begin when we're north american but in the end we make the same mistakes all over again come on north americans

we are north american scum we’re from north america

and all the kids all the kids that want to make the scene here in north america when our young kids get to read it in your magazines we don't have those so where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love where's the love tonight? but there's no love man there's no love and the kids are uptight so throw a party till the cops come in and bust it up let's go north americans oh you were planning it i didn't mean to interrupt sorry i did it once and my parents got pretty upset freaked out in north america but then i said the more i do it the better it gets

let's rock north america

we are north american scum we're from north america we are north american scum we are north american

new york's the greatest if you get someone to pay the rent wahoo north america and it's the furthest you can live from the government un huh huh some proud american christians might disagree here in north america but new york's the only place we're keepin them off the street boo boo now we can't have parties like in spain where they go all night shut down in north america or like berlin where they go another night, alright, un huh un huh

you see i love this place that i have grown to know alright, north america. and yeah, I know you wouldn’t touch us with a ten-foot pole ‘cause we’re north americans.

we are north american scum we are north americans we are north american scum we love north america

take me back to the states man north american scum where we can be ???? north american where the dj ???? here in north american scum don't blame the canadians let go north america