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Agreed: "This is what democracy looks like" is a stupid slogan.

But so is "United we stand." Stand where? At the World Trade Center? Or in Baghdad?

Big public actions are just letting off steam that cannot be let off any other way. I was at the Chicago protests yesterday, and they're kind of idiotic and important at the same time. Sure, half the kids don't know exactly what they're talking about, but they feel instinctively 97 and I believe in this case, correctly 97 that something is very, very wrong, even if they are too inarticulate to name it in a way that meets the approval of those who agree with their general stance.

There is a very large emotional component involved here. All that pent up energy needs somewhere to go. As far as disruptions are concerned, the annual Chicago Marathon and any of the Bulls championships were far more disruptive to public life than anything that happened here yesterday 97 without hundreds of arrests.

I agree with Patrick. Bring on the reverb 97 bigtime.

Every musician knows that's how you get a bigger and more thrilling sound.

Echo is good. Feedback has meaning, as proved by Jimi Hendrix.

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