Excessive Force was the best of the KMFDM side projects, originally consisting of KMFDM’s Sascha Konietzko and Buzz McCoy of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Despite the name “Excessive Force” (taken from a track on KMFDM’s first album), their sound was more house than industrial. Here are their first two releases, the single [...]
I invite all wingnuts to take a look at the American Freedom Pledge at the American Freedom Campaign website. Here is the text of the pledge, in its entirety: We are Americans, and in our America we do not torture, we do not imprison people without charge or legal remedy, we do not tap people’s [...]
Since almost everyone I know can’t stand black metal, I’d like to post a (slightly) more conventional offering than Burzum’s seminal self-titled release. I first heard Walter (now Wendy) Carlos’ Switched-On Bach when I was maybe eleven or twelve in its right vinyl EP form and it was the shit. He (now she’s) the guy [...]
The term “Nazi,” as a result of constant misuse, is starting to lose its meaning. It’s drifting semantically towards “something I consider oppressive and disagreeable.” See Glenn Greenwald’s post from yesterday and Dave Neiwert’s post from today on this topic. Greenwald points out that it used to be considered a pretty bad thing to throw [...]
One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry, readers: The incident involving “a drunken Blackwater contractor” arose when the employee killed a bodyguard for the Iraqi vice president, Adil Abd-al-Mahdi, in December 2006. State Department officials allowed Blackwater to take the shooter out of Iraq less than 36 hours later. Then the State Department charge [...]
