What’s it worth to ‘ya?

The wind is up again. The driveway I had mostly cleared of fallen leaves, isn’t. Congress may keep funding the government a month or two at a time, or not. Things may or may not be about to get better. It’s getting harder to tell what better is or what we should settle for, or not.

Personally, I thing Joe Biden is older than ideal to serve a second term. However, he’s mostly done an above average job so far and is definitely better than any alternative I can readily name. William McDonough may have done US a disservice with his assessment that less bad isn’t the same as good. It’s accurate, but how often is it attainable? Sometimes it’s not feasible to get fiscal year appropriations passed, that’s not good but it is less bad than not funding agencies and requiring folks to work without getting paid in a timely fashion.

Many, many years ago, Steven Stills wrote a song, recorded by Buffalo Springfield in 1967, titled For What It’s Worth. It seems at least as relevant these days, perhaps more so, and it captures my current mood and assessment of the status of the world. That’s it for today. A protest song for a protest mood.

For What It's Worth

Buffalo Springfield [click to listen]

There's something happening here 
But what it is ain't exactly clear 
There's a man with a gun over there 
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop 
Children, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

There's battle lines being drawn 
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong 
Young people speaking their minds 
Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop 
Hey, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

What a field day for the heat (Ooh ooh ooh) 
A thousand people in the street (Ooh ooh ooh) 
Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh) 
Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (Ooh ooh ooh)

It's time we stop 
Hey, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

Paranoia strikes deep 
Into your life it will creep 
It starts when you're always afraid 
Step out of line, the men come and take you away

We better stop 
Hey, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop 
Hey, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop 
Now, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop 
Children, what's that sound? 
Everybody look, what's going down?

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