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A working class hero is something to be

As soon as youre born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if youre clever and they despise a fool
Till youre so fucking crazy you cant follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When theyve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you cant really function youre so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
And you think youre so clever and classless and free
But youre still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Theres room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

-- John Lennon

Small houses challenge our notions of greed

But in an era when bigger is taken as a synonym for better, calling Shafer's home a dream house might strike some as an oxymoron. Why? The entire house, including sleeping loft, measures only 96 square feet -- smaller than many people's bathrooms. But Jay Shafer's dream isn't of a lifestyle writ large but of one carefully created and then writ tiny.

Shafer, the founder of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, began his love affair with diminutive dwellings about 10 years ago when teaching drawing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. "I was living in an average-sized apartment and I realized I just didn't need so much space," he said. "I always envied people who had smaller homes, because they didn't have to do as much housework." [link]

America has jumped the shark.

America has jumped the shark. It has gone collectively insane, which is convenient, because Americans no longer take notice when their leader says things at "town meetings" that would get the rest of us dismissed from our jobs. Here are a few tidbits from a Bush "town meeting" this past week, in the wake of the largest mass murder by a gunman in U.S. history: "Everybody wants to be loved ... not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.' There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." And then, this gem: "Death is terrible." [link]

72-Hour Party People

Very interesting article. The kindof in-depth "on a trip" journalism you don't see anymore. Remincient of HST, but the author doesn't try any of the drugs, just reports rather impartially about what the people on the trip are doing.

Meth: It's not just for the white-trash crowd.

On this Thursday afternoon in late summer, Nick is preparing the second-floor recreation room of his fashionably appointed Highland home for what has become a twice-a-month ritual of extreme indulgence for a revolving group of five to ten fellow hip, young and successful citizens of Denver.

"Basically," he says, "we blast off Thursday night and don't pull the chute until Sunday." [link]

Remembering David Halberstam - A Letter To My Daughter

Author David Halberstam was killed in a car crash yesterday. This is a letter he wrote to his daughter in 1982 describing his experiences covering Vietnam.

PARADE asked Halberstam to reflect on his experiences in Vietnam. His insights have taken the form of a letter to be read someday by his daughter Julia, who is not yet 2 years old. In so doing, he fulfills every parent’s desire to transmit his most profound experience to his children. He believes it important that the rising generation gain as much insight as possible into a conflict that brought with it such bitterness and controversy. We share his belief and commend his letter not only to Julia, but to all readers, today’s no less than tomorrow’s. [link]

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