What is it with Hillary Clinton bashing? I cannot tell you how many times over the holidays I heard for myself or heard complaints from friends about certain family members that sat around the dinner table firing off cheap shots at Hillary. I can’t think of a person in recent history that was more [...]

Naomi Klein on 2003, the year of the fake:
This was the year when fakeness ruled: fake rationales for war, a fake President dressed as a fake soldier declaring a fake end to combat and then holding up a fake turkey. An action movie star became governor and the government started making its own action movies, [...]

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Need a New Year’s Resolution? I give you Clint Eastwood’s ten rules for men.
You are what you drive, huh?
I find this one particularly relevant due to the fact that I have two cars at the moment (yeah, dat’s right, I’m fuckin loaded baby) and am developing a split personality disorder because of it.
Mr. Mercedes [...]

Dear Mr.Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is that we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms [...]

The Guardian on effective rock star activism. Should rock stars twiddle the knobhead masses? Why not. Our own government has shown us that it’s a very small step from entertainer to politician after all.
Thom Yorke, now a real-life Radiohead. Why is everyone so scared of Clear Channel?
The RNC goes berzerker on moveon.org for a contest [...]

Ok, here’s the obligatory ManUnderStress Top 20 Albums of 2003 in a slightly prioritized, but by no means definitive, unordered list.

Blood Brothers – Burn Piano Island, Burn
Iran – Moon Boys
The Wrens – Meadowlands
Menomena – I am the Fun Blame Monster
Calla – Televise
Rapture – Echoes
Strokes – Room on Fire
The Delgados – HATE
Lightning Bolt – Wonderful [...]