RTP-area local music and culture

[bendy <bendyatlostpladotnet AT example.org>]

grady AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> Yes, but Ralph doesn't care about all that stuff anymore. Now he cares 
> about keeping our Young People free from being drafted to fight in Iraq:

I'm going to walk into a minefield and suggest that the only way America 
could avoid this sort of mess in the future is to have manditory 
national service, thus stopping the rightward drift of the military, and 
the notion that they're paid to die, should some muckety-muck have 
another unsubstantiated hunch.

I'm not sure I believe this, but I suspect it. No fucking exemptions for 
anyone, tho' you could do Americorps type stuff if you had conscientious 
objections, etc.

It's the *no fucking exemptions* part that would be almost impossible to 
implement, if history serves as a lesson (and it certainly has been for 
the last week or so....)

It's socialism, folks! Bring it up during the next Thanksgiving dinner 
argument with the relatives. It'll baffle 'em.

Bendy