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List sevenTEEN songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your sevenTEEN songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

Because Carol was the last one I yanked it from, I get to come up with ten more songs...oh memetic evolution.

Dancing Virginia - Jump Little Children
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
Standing - Anthony Stewart Head/Buffy Musical
Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Beatles
Kody - Matchbox 20
Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind
Farmhouse - Phish
These Are The Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Me and Julio - Paul Simon
On My Own - Les Mis
The Impression That I Get - The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
Pride - U2

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I'll have a more complete entry later about other stuff, but I wanted to get this out:

In Quincy the School Board has refused to back down from an offer that would eliminate the cost of living increase in salary for their teachers by requiring them to pay more in health insurance, taking a pay cut for the next four years. The union voted to strike when its offer was refused. The state says it's illegal under the laws enacted to prevent the policemen's strikes that crippled the city of Boston more than 100 years ago.

The Board of Education says it won't waive the 180-day school requirement, so they're going to have to push back the school year until the teachers agree to finish out the year. A judge has agreed with the State, and fined the union as much as $150,000 for taking an action that would otherwise be legal.

Since when is it a threat to public safety to not have school be in session? Is there anarchy every summer in Quincy the rest of the nation magically avoids? Depriving kids of the liberty the Constitution gives them and which the Government at least theoretically admits they have is bad enough, but to say that their de facto imprisonment is necessary to public safety strains credulity.

This plus the stupid-ass ads trying to justify circumventing popular will regarding gay marriage (We vote on other people's rights all the time, and even if we didn't marriage isn't a right) have convinced me that along with Georgia, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has lost the right to govern itself.