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...Blind ideology, regardless of its source, is anathema to a healthy and just politics. The danger indeed, as these knee-jerk editorials revealed, lies in unwittingly following an ideology to its logical conclusion. Once you have made that leap, like Burke, “in the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista,” you will see “nothing but the gallows...
...Free! Rock On Do you like cheap concerts? The Casual Fiasco and The Brew are playing at Best of Boston’s Paradise Rock Club and Lounge. Rock on. 967-969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Friday. $10 Jazz it Up! Give your ears a rest after Third Eye Blind with jazz-latin fusion vocalist Marta Gomez at the nearby Regatta Bar. Who knew such good music was so close? The student discount doesn’t hurt either. Regatta Bar, the Charles Hotel. Saturday, 10 p.m. $12 Ready, Set, Go! Harvard dating scene got you down? Then the April Speed...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Convincing my best friend I was blind in one eye for three years. Okay, no. But that would be hilarious...
Third Eye Blind: My Anti-Drug? Look, I understand that all of the rules of music snobbery dictate that I am no longer cool if I express my fondness for a band that talked about suicide in a non-detached ironic way. (Please don’t step out from that ledge, my friend! Please!) Whatever. Third Eye Blind remains perhaps the only band I know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And...
Last week, Republicans’ blind faith in the free market once again trumped a valuable measure to save elderly Americans money on medicine. Despite a similar bill having passed in the House of Representatives, 42 Republican senators blocked by filibuster a proposal to modify a provision of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. That provision forbade the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with drug companies and healthcare providers on behalf of the 43 million Americans who rely on Medicare. The current system splinters the bargaining power of America’s elderly, creating private middlemen...