Preacher George

Emma Goldman again, on Bush's speech to the National Religious Broadcasters:

The country is able to meet its challenges how? Through its constitutional democracy and laws? No. “We’re meeting those challenges because of our faith.” The President appears to be a deeply religious man, and he does not see a distinction between the goodness of religious belief and the goodness of a strong government.

[Edited to remove the second, less interesting quote.]

open mike report

Mission City Coffee Roasting Company, 2003-02-12

I've had an acoustic guitar for a few years now, and have been performing with it for, I think, most of a year. It's pretty nice, but I bought one with no pickup (because I wasn't performing then, so what did I need amplification for?), and it's been getting inconvenient. There are various issues like the difficulty of miking acoustic guitars well, but mostly for me the tipping point was a few weeks ago, watching Erin McKeown bopping around while she played her guitar, and being frustrated that I can't move around because I have to keep the soundhole near the microphone.

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