There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.