It’s your civic duty to vote for your favourite Canadian songs on CBC’s 50 Tracks. Here’s the deal. You can vote every day from March 16th to March 21st. There is a list the list of fifty songs and you get to check ten of them. So, you’ve got a potential of sixty points to distribute across the list, weighing your vote on the songs you think deserve to be at the top.
In other 50 Tracks news, I heard—for the first time—yesterday, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Universal Soldier. It was remarkable enough for me to start blogging about it today. I can’t say I like Buffy’s voice, nor the style of the song, but she brings up a thought that really hadn’t crossed my mind before. Individual responsibility of soldiers in war. Okay, maybe I have thought about this issue before, but Buffy brought it to a point for me.
Now, I’ll be the first to agree that there are “just” and “un-just” wars. I don’t know how many just wars there have been in the past century or two, I’m not a history major. I also think there’s a big difference in defending yourself in war and defending an ideal by going to war. Is there too much war? Yeah. Am I talking about G.W.? Definately not exclusively. Am I advocating giving Universal Soldier a listen? For certain. And for my part, I’m even going to spend one of my sixty votes on it.
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