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That Flaming Lips song I got from the Dell commercial reminds me of another good song I haven’t listened to in a while.

Snot - Snooze Button

(I actually wrote out all these lyrics when I went online and either found incomplete lyrics or just plain wrong lyrics posted on all the lyrics sites. I got a little bit of help from the people at the forum at Free Talk Live.)

Band: Snot
Album: Get Some
Song: Snooze Button

Aw yes, you hit the snooze button
I’m sure you up and fell asleep again
You did not even fight

Well, it’s just another song
Talkin’ about how you let them take your rights
Another redundant verse about how you refused to fight
And lost, what cost, your cause has got no champion
How could you hope to win by just complainin’
Now it’s rainin’ on your parade
Decisions made could cost you dearly
Not just your money but your freedom
Are you wealthy? Improper choices could be deadly
They took your so-called rights
You did not even fight

Well, here’s your motherfuckin’ wake up call
And there just ain’t no way around it
Caught you asleep once again, we ain’t havin’ it
Got freedom for them to do just what they tell ya
You missed that train of thought
You refuse to be taught a lesson
Now this is what I’m guessin’
You’ll be held accountable
Things you did not want to know
You’re stressin’
Now with your head yeah they keep messin’
They took your so-called rights
You did not even fight

You hit that snooze button, fell asleep again

While you were busy fuckin’ sleepin’
You know your government was creepin’
Somebody left the door unlocked
Your seatbelt life was bought and sold
Yes, to the highest bidder
Left you in sitcom hell
So convinced you’re doin’ well
You sit back, synapses are attacked
American Gladiators are the only thing they’re givin’ back
You’re dyin’, and in your mind, while they keep lyin’,
They took your so-called rights
You better fuckin’

~WAKE UP~
Aw yes, you hit the snooze button
I’m sure you up and fell asleep again ~FIGHT~
They took your so-called rights and again and again
You better dream again
~WAKE UP~
Aw yes, you hit the snooze button
I’m sure you up and fell asleep again ~FIGHT~
They took your so-called rights
You did not even fight

You know that’s not your way
Once again you’re doin’ what they say
Don’t you fall asleep today, no way

WATCH OUT!
~OBEY, OBEY~
No, that’s not your way
~OBEY, OBEY~
Once again you’re doin’ what they say
~OBEY, OBEY~
Don’t you fall asleep today, no way, ~OBEY~
No way, they’ve got to break
~OBEY, OBEY~
You know that’s not your way
~OBEY, OBEY~
Once again you’re doin’ what they say
~OBEY, OBEY~
Don’t you fall asleep today
~OBEY~
Awake
~OBEY~

Now that we’ve given you a message
I’ve got a mess that you can salvage
Continue to grow, you will know
That little things in life can make a difference
You’ve got to beat your politician
Take back those given rights
You better fuckin’

~WAKE UP~
Aw yes, you hit the snooze button
I’m sure you up and fell asleep again ~FIGHT~
They took your so-called rights and again and again
You better dream again
~WAKE UP~
Aw yes, you hit the snooze button
I’m sure you up and fell asleep again ~FIGHT~
They took your so-called rights
You did not even

No no no, no no, you did not even fight
Fight
Fight
They took your so-called rights
You did not even fight

Why Study Dead Greeks? by Victor Davis Hanson

[...]

Virtue is pretty simple in this other world: duty to the state, civic participation in all its manifestations; abidance to the truth; avoidance of sin as defined mostly by avoidance of overindulgence, as in too much money, talk, drink, sex, food, and sleep; financial and social loyalty to children and friends; and unceasing cultivation of mind and body. Public secular shame, not private religious guilt, is the goad that keeps us on track.

Absent is the modern notion of victimization in which any character lapse is automatically attributable to some past childhood, parental, gender, racial, or class infliction. Usually you screw up because you were weak, or selfish, or stupid, and if you don’t make amends, it was due to an innate character flaw rather than momentary weakness.

And most importantly, there is no myth that human nature is malleable, and radically changed by money and education. Thus there exists on the other side of this modernist door, in this enticing garden, our old now taboo words like lazy, stupid, traitor, cowardly, no-good, disgraceful, shameful, etc., and an expectation that when a society is given too much money, leisure, and affluence, people will usually do all sorts of ludicrous things, being people after all—perhaps in our own time like watching Anna Nicole Smith Fox News Alerts, complaining that Wal-Mart has run out of motorized shopping carts as you devour Big Macs (I saw just that two days ago), and spending $10,000 on batteries and hydraulic lifters for your car while not investing $200 a month for catastrophic health insurance plan.

Then you put down the poems of Catullus or Homer’s Iliad and get sucked back through the keyhole into our modern world, in which there is a veneer, a falsity really, that coats almost everything we do, sometimes for good reasons, more often for the bad. So it is a fine thing to read a little Greek and Latin each evening to remind us that the modernist mindset is antithetical to almost everything that preceded it, and mostly a human reaction to a novel generation of once unimaginable and now unlimited choices, appetites, and opportunities.

Cringely rules information.  Read the short article that tells about how U.S. consumers have been destroyed by the telcos - The $200 Billion Rip-Off.

And the upshot is that I could move to Japan and pay $14 per month for
100-megabit-per-second Internet service but I can’t do that here and
will probably never be able to.

From CNN.com, President Bush’s new war adviser says our all-volunteer military is stressed by frequent tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, making it worth considering a return to the draft.

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