42 Years, 41 Shots, 21 Guns and Enough Allusions to Say "Huh?"

• Kent State happened 42 years ago; Daisy has an essay up along with "Ohio" on YouTube for however long.  Four died at Kent State; two died at Jackson State two weeks later.  For a generation these two massacres were signposts on the road to The Government Lies To You (along with Cambodia, the Vietnam War in general, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and the run-up to the war in Iraq).  That still does not mean I believe libertarian promises, though.
• Caryn Rose reviews Bruce Springsteen in Newark, NJ (she's reviewing various nights of the Wrecking Ball tour); I had heard somewhere that he was performing "41 Shots," but it hasn't been namechecked in the reviews I've seen.
• Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys died.  (First link is Caryn Rose's farewell; second link is NYTimes.)  
• I finally put Mercury Rising on my blogroll last week and I'm glad I did.  Have a sample of "Excerpts of How to Speak Republican:" 

  Medicare: A fraudulent, socialistic boondoggle that is sacrosanct.

• Jesse Curtis on real equal opportunity:

  Now, I'm not sure that there is any significant group in America that literally believes in equal opportunity. But liberals do want to get a little closer to a literal expression of it, while conservatives are generally content to maintain opportunity in a symbolic sense. To be fair, this isn't necessarily as horrible as it sounds. As Waldman says, creating equal opportunity actually is a radical idea, and there would be tradeoffs associated with it. Conservatives do not believe those tradeoffs are worth it. That's actually quite reasonable.

Hmmmmm. I may have to crosspost...