Opinion
Trouble Comin' Every Day
- Category: Opinion
In 1965 Frank Zappa wrote the song "Trouble Comin' Every Day" after watching news coverage of the Watts Riots. His lyrics are still relevant to this day. The song first appeared on "Freak Out" the debut album of The Mothers Of Invention. It has been re-recorded several times over the years with little change in its powerful message. The lyrics read like a news story right out of the riots that have swept the country in 2020. Frank may be gone now, but his genius lives on.
Israeli Lessons For Mass Shootings
- Category: Opinion
Mass shootings such as those that happened in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have given rise to an anguished national discussion over how to best respond to domestic terror. There is an aching awareness that punishing individual criminals after the fact is, to invoke the famous Churchill phrase, too little, too late. The social objective is to prevent these useless deaths from ever happening, which is why choosing the proper mix of preventive measures is rightly the central topic of debate.