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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S BLOOD MONEY
NEWS ITEM: (CNN); On Tuesday, Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising";his first studio album of all new material in seven years-comes out. The record has made news not least because Springsteen has focused on the people affected by the Sept. 11 attacks for much of his subject matter.
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That is what Bruce Springsteen is doing with his trivialization of the September 11 New York aerospace mishaps by turning the carnage into a gleeful rhyme fest.
It's going to be bad enough come September 11, 2002 when all the major networks spew out vitriol against an innocent-until-proven guilty Osama Bin Laden while laying on the America-the-Beautiful patriotism as thick as Rosie O'Donnell's left thigh.
Springsteen made this album solely as a cadaver chase that's in pursuit of the few shekels still left over after the money-grubbing spouses finished picking over the corpses of their World Trade Center dead.
Those of us who lost money on Wall Street because we couldn't trade futures options when the NYSE closed for three or four days are particularly offended by Springsteen's smarmy paean to a couple of dead NYPD and NYFD bozos who earn, what, $50K a year! We, for one, will not miss theseu under-achievers who didn't even have the sense to ask for stock options.
Renowned music critic Pauline Kael has called "The Rising" an "insipid little collection of frightfully schmaltzy poems that honor people so ignorant that they jumped out of the World Trade Center before rescuers could come to their aid. These aren't heroes or victims, these are sacredy cats!"
And what of the E Street Band? They are nothing more than minor players who for three decades have circled around Springsteen picking at the anorexic groupies and whiney homos that "The Boss" passes by when selecting his bedmate at the end of each night's performance.
It is a good thing that the United States Supreme Court last month outlawed the Star Spangled Banner as our nation's official Pledge of Allegiance. Otherwise, Springsteen would have no doubt added this boozy ballad to an album that is already so smarmy that it will send a diabetic into toxic shock.
Springsteen has always been a Commie anti-capitalist. To realize that, one has only to listen to such anti-business songs as "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Borned in the USA." Yet "The Rising" is capitalism at its purest: He wants to earn residuals off the rotting bones of the dead WTC victims, even as the maggots crawl through their eye sockets and infest their carnal regions that no longer give pleasure to spouses who have only recently re-entered the dating pool.
We know we speak for everyone on Slashdot when we call Bruce Springsteen an ambulance chaser for releasing "The Rising."
Or perhaps Springsteen is just jealous that Mr. Osama Bin Laden couldn't find anything in New Jersey as worthy as the two WTC towers for being made into such an honorable political statement for Arab and Afghanistan independence.
This is an example of the Simpsons hiding irony so that US audiences aren't frightened by it.
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It's based on the following (true) quote:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!