America Eating Its Young
May 4, 2023Today is the 53rd anniversary of Ohio National Guardsman shooting dead four unarmed students at Kent State. Eleven other kids were injured.
Although the President’s Commission on Campus Violence equivocated and blamed both Guardsmen and students, it did finally conclude that “the indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable.”
It was murder, pure and simple, though the US justice system refused to press charges against the Guardsmen. After all, as Nixon himself said just a few days before the massacre, student protesters were just bums.
Lest we forget.
Happy Birthday Willie!
April 29, 2023.
Today is Willien Nelson’s 90th birthday! Living proof that anti-marijuana laws are a crock.
Night Music: Dat Dere
April 26, 2023Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers do the classic Bobby Timmon’s tune.