I Would Hate To Have

One Of The Best Things That's Come Out Of The Seattle Protests Is The Birth Of The Independent Media Center. It's Not As Though The Independent Media Movement Wasn't Already There, But It's Given It Another Jump-start. There's The Feeling That Not Only Should We Report On Our Underground Culture And Our Own Situation, But Now We Have To Start Telling People What's Really Going On At A Time When Everything From Cnn To Usa Today Is As Tightly Controlled As Tass Or Pravda.

I Was Born In The Late '50s, Was A Child Of The '60s, Then The '70s, Then The '80s, Then The '90s, And I Have Mental Fingers In All Those Pies.

This Is My Home. Home Is Where The Disease Is. As Long As I Stay In America, I'll Never Run Out Of Subjects For Songs.

It Depends On The Situation. I Mean, On One Hand There's The Argument That People Should Be Left Alone On The Other Hand, There's The Argument To Wade In A Stop Slaughters In Places Like Bosnia And Kosovo And What We Probably Should Have Done In Rwanda.

I Am An Anarchist In My Personal Life. I Try To Live My Life In A Way That I Don't Need Cops Or Baby-sitters To Keep Me From Infringing On Others. But I Don't Feel We Have Evolved Far Enough As A Species To Make Anarchy Work In Society Itself. We Still Need Government To Transfer The Wealth From Those Who Have Too Much To Those Who Have Too Little, To Make Sure Important Projects Get Done, And Keep Territorial Humans From Screwing Over And Killing Each Other.