Friday Stuff

Five years ago today, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered - here and here are related posts, and here she is speaking about our old buddy Vlad Putin; she warned the world about him, and paid for it with her life (and as noted here, there are actually new legal developments surrounding her death)...



...and keeping with this harrowing theme, happy 60th birthday to John Mellencamp (I actually can take or leave most of his songs...not sure about this one yet...but his politics rock)...



...and changing up the mood more than a little bit, I should point out that Fix Noise started its infernal run on cable TV on this day in 1996; with that in mind, I thought the following particularly hilarious clip deserved another look...



...and RIP Bert Jansch.