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...Mike Ness is the master of the Angry Loser song. Just scan the titles--"Cold Feelings," "Bad Luck," "Bye Bye Baby," and "Born to Lose." In the latter, he sings "I was brought in this world in 1962/I didn't have much choice you see/But by the time I was eight, I could tell it was too late, I was already barking up the wrong tree...
Social Distortion sticks to standard eight-bar rock chord progressions most of the time, but they never promise innovation, just catharsis. And sometimes humor. In "99 to Life," Ness sings about lonely weekends spent in jail. "I wish she could be here, lord if she only could/Instead she's lying in a pool of blood/She was my baby, thought she'd be my wife/I killed my baby, I killed her with my knife...
...racial relations to know that. The melting pot never melted. But American mutuality lives in recognition of difference. The fact remains that America is a collective act of the imagination whose making never ends, and once that sense of collectivity and mutual respect is broken, the possibilities of American-ness begin to unravel...
...they are fraying now, it is at least in part due to the prevalence of demagogues who wish to claim that there is only one path to virtuous American- ness: paleoconservatives like Jesse Helms and Pat Robertson who think this country has one single ethic, neoconservatives who rail against a bogey called multiculturalism -- as though this culture was ever anything but multi! -- and pushers of political correctness who would like to see grievance elevated into automatic sanctity...
...awakening to the one-ness of life and is a useful vehicle for social action, the first American-born Zen priest told an audience of more than 200 Tuesday night...