Dead Kennedys, Trust Your Mechanic
Volunteered at Rush today, first time in months. The nurse spent the entire meeting chiding everyone to “listen to your doctor, he knows better.” Even when everyone was telling stories about how their doctors are mortal and simply push pills now. Two pharmaceutical sales reps where there, as well. Volunteering can be hard some days.
Dead Kennedys, Kill the Poor
Jane Addams Hull House to close
The 123-year-old agency, headquartered at 1030 W. Van Buren St., provides foster care, domestic violence counseling and prevention services, child development programs, and job training to about 60,000 children, families and community groups each year. Plans are to close by the end of March, Saunders said.
Dead Kennedys, A Child & His Lawnmower
I can’t think of a punk song about weed whackers, sorry.
Dead Kennedys, Well Paid Scientist
Milo Aukerman on possibility of new Descendents material
Dr. Milo Aukerman and Bill Stevenson recent sat down for an interview with The Punk Site wherein they discussed the possibility of new material, the reunion shows and what people can reliably expect from the band. Aukerman largely retired from music except for the occasional reunion performances of the Descendents and mainly focuses on his job as a biochemist at Dupont.
Dead Kennedys, Life Sentence
Federal judge delays Blagojevich sentencing
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s sentencing next month on his sweeping corruption charges has been postponed, according to a court order Monday. No new date has been set.
Ah … what??
Dead Kennedys, Jock-O-Rama
Meriweather not involved in alleged rape in his home
Everything is okay! There is no connection between Brandon Meriweather and the rape in his home. Don’t worry about it.
Dead Kennedys, Forest Fire
Texas wildfire destroys 300 homes
BASTROP, Texas— An unchecked wildfire southeast of Austin, Texas, destroyed 300 homes, scorched thousands of acres and stretched across a 16-mile area Monday morning, authorities said.
Dead Kennedys, Moon over Marin
I was beginning a nice quiet bender with a few White Russians and found this: Obama backtracks on smog plan, bows to big business and I am depressed as all hell. The Republicans are dismantling the E.P.A., you know. The F.D.A. is next. The older I get, the more I see a corporatocracy that doesn’t give two shits about people or their health - just their money.
Another tanker’s hit the rocks
Abandoned to spill out its guts
The sand is laced with sticky glopsThere will always be a moon
Over Marin
Dead Kennedys, Chemical Warfare
3 fall ill after suspicious parcel sent to Illinois Air Force base
Three people fell sick and were treated at a hospital Wednesday after a suspicious package was found at the mail center of an Air Force base in southern Illinois, prompting the evacuation of parts of the facility.
Great. More anthrax worries. And sorry, Anthrax is too metal for me to post.
Dead Kennedys, Advice From Christmas Past and Government Flu
US to shed light on Guatemala syphilis experiment
A U.S. presidential commission will release Monday its findings on a government research project that deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.
This is not the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, this is another one. Just to remind you, the federal government infects its own citizens, too.
