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February 24, 2022
Label: New Alliance Records – NAR-012
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: September 4 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Hardcore
Descendents - Milo Goes to College (Full Album) 1982
Label: New Alliance Records – NAR-012
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: September 4 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Hardcore
Descendents - Milo Goes to College (1982)
Outside of poppy first-wave punk bands like the Ramones, The Clash, and the Buzzcocks, there's a good argument to be made that no album had a more profound impact on the development of pop punk than the Descendents' first full-length, 1982's Milo Goes to College. It was firmly rooted in the hardcore scene -- released on the Minutemen's New Alliance Records, produced by SST's in-house producer Spot, and played with the same rawness, speed, and intensity as early Black Flag (who Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson later became a member of) -- but the Descendents added in bright, catchy melodies through Milo Aukerman's bratty, snotty delivery, and basically invented pop punk in the process. And it wasn't just the sound of pop punk that Milo Goes to College paved the way for; it was the lyrical content too. With songs about hating your parents, wanting girls to like you, being a loser, and a hint of social criticism, Milo Goes to College laid out what would be the primary concerns for a large majority of pop punk bands to come. Just about every major pop punk band has sung the Descendents' praises, but one band in particular who took notes directly out of Milo Goes to College's playbook was also the band who brought punk to its widest audience: blink-182. "[Descendents are] the only reason blink-182 existed," Tom DeLonge once said. "It was the first band the three of us all agreed on." Mark Hoppus said they "changed the trajectory of [his] life forever." Even if they didn't say it, just a cursory listen to blink-182's '90s output would make the Descendents' influence very, very clear. When blink covered Milo Goes to College standout "Hope" without changing a single thing about it, it sounded... exactly like a blink-182 song. blink may have introduced this kind of music to more people than ever in the late '90s and early 2000s, but it was the Descendents who created it.
Outside of poppy first-wave punk bands like the Ramones, The Clash, and the Buzzcocks, there's a good argument to be made that no album had a more profound impact on the development of pop punk than the Descendents' first full-length, 1982's Milo Goes to College. It was firmly rooted in the hardcore scene -- released on the Minutemen's New Alliance Records, produced by SST's in-house producer Spot, and played with the same rawness, speed, and intensity as early Black Flag (who Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson later became a member of) -- but the Descendents added in bright, catchy melodies through Milo Aukerman's bratty, snotty delivery, and basically invented pop punk in the process. And it wasn't just the sound of pop punk that Milo Goes to College paved the way for; it was the lyrical content too. With songs about hating your parents, wanting girls to like you, being a loser, and a hint of social criticism, Milo Goes to College laid out what would be the primary concerns for a large majority of pop punk bands to come. Just about every major pop punk band has sung the Descendents' praises, but one band in particular who took notes directly out of Milo Goes to College's playbook was also the band who brought punk to its widest audience: blink-182. "[Descendents are] the only reason blink-182 existed," Tom DeLonge once said. "It was the first band the three of us all agreed on." Mark Hoppus said they "changed the trajectory of [his] life forever." Even if they didn't say it, just a cursory listen to blink-182's '90s output would make the Descendents' influence very, very clear. When blink covered Milo Goes to College standout "Hope" without changing a single thing about it, it sounded... exactly like a blink-182 song. blink may have introduced this kind of music to more people than ever in the late '90s and early 2000s, but it was the Descendents who created it.
February 24, 2022
Label: S.O.S. Records (5) – SOS1001, S.O.S. Records (5) – SOSLP 1001
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Hardcore
The Adolescents - I Love You
Label: S.O.S. Records (5) – SOS1001, S.O.S. Records (5) – SOSLP 1001
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Hardcore
February 23, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/nyregion/cabrera-eric-adams-lgbtq-protests.html
In 2014, as Uganda was promulgating a law that made some homosexual behavior punishable by life in prison, a councilman from the Bronx traveled to the country and hailed its “godly” governance.
“Gay marriage is not accepted in this country,” the councilman, Fernando Cabrera, said approvingly, sitting among palm trees in a video posted to YouTube. “Why? Because the Christians have assumed the place of decision-making for the nation. Abortions are illegal here, things that Christians really stand for.”
The video was subsequently removed from YouTube, but not before a gay rights activist and blogger, Andrés Duque, had downloaded it and reposted it online.
Now, eight years after his trip to Uganda, Mr. Cabrera’s embrace of a government that developed anti-gay laws at a time of anti-gay violence and even murder in the country is proving a political liability for Mayor Eric Adams, who recently named him to a position in his administration.
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Eric Adams Is Challenged Over His Hiring of 3 Gay Marriage Foes
L.G.B.T.Q. groups plan to protest on Thursday over the naming of three men to City Hall posts who they say hold homophobic views.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/nyregion/cabrera-eric-adams-lgbtq-protests.html
In 2014, as Uganda was promulgating a law that made some homosexual behavior punishable by life in prison, a councilman from the Bronx traveled to the country and hailed its “godly” governance.
“Gay marriage is not accepted in this country,” the councilman, Fernando Cabrera, said approvingly, sitting among palm trees in a video posted to YouTube. “Why? Because the Christians have assumed the place of decision-making for the nation. Abortions are illegal here, things that Christians really stand for.”
The video was subsequently removed from YouTube, but not before a gay rights activist and blogger, Andrés Duque, had downloaded it and reposted it online.
Now, eight years after his trip to Uganda, Mr. Cabrera’s embrace of a government that developed anti-gay laws at a time of anti-gay violence and even murder in the country is proving a political liability for Mayor Eric Adams, who recently named him to a position in his administration.
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February 22, 2022
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/fascism-is-bad-but-so-is-wokeism
The title of the opinion piece told me everything: “I reject both parties’ ideas of Americanism. And I’m not the only one.” I didn’t even know who wrote it but I made several immediate assumptions before clicking the link and to my eternal lack of surprise, almost all of them were right. It was written by a man (likely). He was white (very likely). He was “above the fray” (all but guaranteed).
There would be complaints about identity politics (take it to the bank). That last one was the one I was, by far, most sure about. When anyone sits down to pen a screed about how both sides are to blame, this is almost inevitably where they go. The entire piece, written by Matt Bai, is an absolute mountain of hot garbage. It is hard to describe the sheer amount of privilege one must ooze in order to equate being woke/sjw/whatever you’d like to call it to being a white nationalist fascist but I am going to give it a try anyway.
I’m an independent!
Matt Bai really wants you to know that he’s an independent voter. Oh, he used to be a Democrat but he left that party years ago because he is above such petty tribalism. Why, he has even supported Republicans! And third-party candidates! He is a true free thinker, unshackled by “old orthodoxies.” Bai makes sure to let us know he is no fan of the Republican Party because he has liberal sensibilities, of course. He is quite aware that the GOP is no longer a political party in any recognizable sense. Bai is also quite aware that Republicans would very much like to end democracy. We know this because he says it:
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Fascism Is Bad But So Is Wokeism! Worse, Actually! by Matt Bai
The Washington Post's Matt Bai wants you to know that fascism is bad, but have you heard about this identity politics thing?https://thebanter.substack.com/p/fascism-is-bad-but-so-is-wokeism
The title of the opinion piece told me everything: “I reject both parties’ ideas of Americanism. And I’m not the only one.” I didn’t even know who wrote it but I made several immediate assumptions before clicking the link and to my eternal lack of surprise, almost all of them were right. It was written by a man (likely). He was white (very likely). He was “above the fray” (all but guaranteed).
There would be complaints about identity politics (take it to the bank). That last one was the one I was, by far, most sure about. When anyone sits down to pen a screed about how both sides are to blame, this is almost inevitably where they go. The entire piece, written by Matt Bai, is an absolute mountain of hot garbage. It is hard to describe the sheer amount of privilege one must ooze in order to equate being woke/sjw/whatever you’d like to call it to being a white nationalist fascist but I am going to give it a try anyway.
I’m an independent!
Matt Bai really wants you to know that he’s an independent voter. Oh, he used to be a Democrat but he left that party years ago because he is above such petty tribalism. Why, he has even supported Republicans! And third-party candidates! He is a true free thinker, unshackled by “old orthodoxies.” Bai makes sure to let us know he is no fan of the Republican Party because he has liberal sensibilities, of course. He is quite aware that the GOP is no longer a political party in any recognizable sense. Bai is also quite aware that Republicans would very much like to end democracy. We know this because he says it:
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February 22, 2022
https://archive.fo/NY4hs
Ten years ago, the idea that policies like student loan debt forgiveness or free two-year college would soon be debated in mainstream national politics would have sounded ridiculous. I was writing my first book on higher education during that time, and as I traveled across the country and occasionally abroad to talk about college in America, I got two questions every time: “Why don’t people worried about student loans just get a job to pay their tuition?” and “Why shouldn’t private for-profit companies make money on college when Harvard does the same thing?” These questions were driven by folk economics: People had filled a lot of gaps in their understanding about the mechanics of debt and tuition with a simplified view of how college works. Neither of these questions suggested the sea change that was coming.
The rise of student loan debt upended everything. It is over $1.7 trillion now, the largest debt class of any asset other than mortgages. And, not to be cute, but you can live in a house. You cannot live in a degree. To say that these are different kinds of debts is an understatement, as sociologist Louise Seamster told me recently when we talked for The Ezra Klein podcast.
A few years ago, I sat with Brian Powell, professor of sociology at Indiana University, on a panel about higher education and inequality. He presented in-progress findings about how higher education should be financed. Now he and his colleague Natasha Quadlin, of UCLA, have written a book about what Americans think about paying for college. The book “Who Should Pay?” reports on a nationally-representative survey of Americans’ ideas about the ideal mix of government, family and student responsibility for the cost of higher education. This is important because public opinion shapes agendas, as Brian pointed out when we talked just ahead of the book’s release — it arguably matters more how people think college works than how it actually does. And much of the media discourse about the details of higher education funding — such as how endowments work or even how student loans work — far overestimates the general public’s understanding.
Three data stories emerge from Powell and Quadlin’s book. We overestimate how much people know or care about higher education finance or university conflict. Quadlin and Powell’s survey data suggests that, by and large, Americans still value college, even if they are increasingly confused about why it costs so much. To the issue of cost, younger adults and racial minorities (including Asian American, Latinx, and African Americans) understand college as a collective value that should have a more equal distribution of cost between families, students and governments. And, finally, I was struck by a null finding: Despite being the primary beneficiaries of higher education for decades now, women viewed the responsibility of paying for college pretty much the same way as men.
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Who Do Americans Think Should Pay for College?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/22cottom-student-loan-debt.htmlhttps://archive.fo/NY4hs
Ten years ago, the idea that policies like student loan debt forgiveness or free two-year college would soon be debated in mainstream national politics would have sounded ridiculous. I was writing my first book on higher education during that time, and as I traveled across the country and occasionally abroad to talk about college in America, I got two questions every time: “Why don’t people worried about student loans just get a job to pay their tuition?” and “Why shouldn’t private for-profit companies make money on college when Harvard does the same thing?” These questions were driven by folk economics: People had filled a lot of gaps in their understanding about the mechanics of debt and tuition with a simplified view of how college works. Neither of these questions suggested the sea change that was coming.
The rise of student loan debt upended everything. It is over $1.7 trillion now, the largest debt class of any asset other than mortgages. And, not to be cute, but you can live in a house. You cannot live in a degree. To say that these are different kinds of debts is an understatement, as sociologist Louise Seamster told me recently when we talked for The Ezra Klein podcast.
A few years ago, I sat with Brian Powell, professor of sociology at Indiana University, on a panel about higher education and inequality. He presented in-progress findings about how higher education should be financed. Now he and his colleague Natasha Quadlin, of UCLA, have written a book about what Americans think about paying for college. The book “Who Should Pay?” reports on a nationally-representative survey of Americans’ ideas about the ideal mix of government, family and student responsibility for the cost of higher education. This is important because public opinion shapes agendas, as Brian pointed out when we talked just ahead of the book’s release — it arguably matters more how people think college works than how it actually does. And much of the media discourse about the details of higher education funding — such as how endowments work or even how student loans work — far overestimates the general public’s understanding.
Three data stories emerge from Powell and Quadlin’s book. We overestimate how much people know or care about higher education finance or university conflict. Quadlin and Powell’s survey data suggests that, by and large, Americans still value college, even if they are increasingly confused about why it costs so much. To the issue of cost, younger adults and racial minorities (including Asian American, Latinx, and African Americans) understand college as a collective value that should have a more equal distribution of cost between families, students and governments. And, finally, I was struck by a null finding: Despite being the primary beneficiaries of higher education for decades now, women viewed the responsibility of paying for college pretty much the same way as men.
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February 21, 2022
Reports that Chris Wood meowed at Kurt Zouma during Newcastle's game against West Ham
naughty naughty 
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1495730112851021825
February 21, 2022
Label:
Chess – 1618
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country:
US
Released:
1956
Genre:
Blues
Style:
Vocal
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning (1956) digitally remastered mono to stereo
Label:
Chess – 1618
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country:
US
Released:
1956
Genre:
Blues
Style:
Vocal
February 21, 2022
Label: Crypt Records – CRYPT LP-047
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Cowpunk, Garage Rock
Artwork – The Pizz
Bass – Matt Bartholomy
Drums – Bill Waldron
Guitar – Blaine Cartwright
Vocals – Scott Luallen
Recorded at Stockyard Studios, Glasgow, Kentucky, USA in April and July 1994.
Tracklist
A1 Hayseed Timebomb
A2 Skin A Buck
A3 Stranded Outside Tater Knob
A4 Run Fat Boy Run
A5 Wreck Of The Old 97
A6 Shakey Puddin'
A7 Devil's Playground
B1 Steamroller
B2 Shotgun In A Chevy
B3 Fuck Pie
B4 Outta The Way, Pigfuckers
B5 Adios, Farewell, Goodbye
B6 Slam Bang
Nine Pound Hammer - Hayseed Timebomb (Full Album)
Label: Crypt Records – CRYPT LP-047
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Cowpunk, Garage Rock
Artwork – The Pizz
Bass – Matt Bartholomy
Drums – Bill Waldron
Guitar – Blaine Cartwright
Vocals – Scott Luallen
Recorded at Stockyard Studios, Glasgow, Kentucky, USA in April and July 1994.
Tracklist
A1 Hayseed Timebomb
A2 Skin A Buck
A3 Stranded Outside Tater Knob
A4 Run Fat Boy Run
A5 Wreck Of The Old 97
A6 Shakey Puddin'
A7 Devil's Playground
B1 Steamroller
B2 Shotgun In A Chevy
B3 Fuck Pie
B4 Outta The Way, Pigfuckers
B5 Adios, Farewell, Goodbye
B6 Slam Bang
February 21, 2022
(CNN) As the world approaches the second anniversary of the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization, on March 11, more nations are rolling out -- or are discussing the possibility of -- fourth doses of coronavirus vaccine for their most vulnerable. In the United States, leading public health officials say they are "very carefully" monitoring if or when fourth doses might be needed.
Israel was the first nation to roll out fourth doses, announcing in December that adults 60 and older, medical workers and people with suppressed immune systems were eligible to receive the extra shot if at least four months have passed since their third dose.
More recently, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced last week that second booster doses are recommended for everyone 80 and older in the country.
In the United States, health officials emphasized late last year that fourth doses were not yet needed and said it was too premature to be discussing a potential fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine for most people.
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A 4th Covid-19 shot might be recommended this fall, as officials 'continually' look at emerging data
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/19/health/fourth-covid-19-vaccine-dose-us/index.html(CNN) As the world approaches the second anniversary of the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization, on March 11, more nations are rolling out -- or are discussing the possibility of -- fourth doses of coronavirus vaccine for their most vulnerable. In the United States, leading public health officials say they are "very carefully" monitoring if or when fourth doses might be needed.
Israel was the first nation to roll out fourth doses, announcing in December that adults 60 and older, medical workers and people with suppressed immune systems were eligible to receive the extra shot if at least four months have passed since their third dose.
More recently, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced last week that second booster doses are recommended for everyone 80 and older in the country.
In the United States, health officials emphasized late last year that fourth doses were not yet needed and said it was too premature to be discussing a potential fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine for most people.
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February 21, 2022
Boris Johnson says free Covid tests in England will end on 1 April
Older and vulnerable people in the UK to be offered additional jab
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/21/uk-covid-live-boris-johnson-to-lift-all-remaining-restrictions-in-england
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Boris Johnson announces end to self-isolation after positive test in England
Prime minister says all legal restrictions can be lifted now vaccination levels are high and deaths are lowBoris Johnson says free Covid tests in England will end on 1 April
Older and vulnerable people in the UK to be offered additional jab
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/21/uk-covid-live-boris-johnson-to-lift-all-remaining-restrictions-in-england
Boris Johnson explains why the plans have been brought forward.
He says:
He says we need to get our confidence back.
He says:
Restrictions pose a heavy toll on our economy, our society, our mental well-being and all the life chances of our children and we do not have to pay the price any longer.
We have a population that is protected by the biggest vaccination programme in our history. We have the advantage of the treatments and the scientific understanding of this virus and we have the capabilities to respond rapidly to any resurgence or new variants.
He says we need to get our confidence back.
We chose to compel people to be considerate to others. We can rely on that sense of responsibility towards one another by providing practical advice in the knowledge that people will follow it to avoid infecting loved ones.
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