I’ve been thinkin’ things over since last night and decided that this post might be considered NSFW, so I’m putting it below the cut. Grown-up language there. There’s a free song for you to download, if that’s any encouragement.

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Here’s a good wake-up call on the state—and threat—of Real ID.

Real ID requires states to issue national ID cards with embedded, radio-frequency identification chips in them. The act already been passed into law. States are required to put measures in place by May 2008.

The sheer volume of horrors we learn about these days is numbing. Iraq, Iran, vote fraud, reprisals against critics of administration policies, and on, and on. Under the onslaught, sometimes I just slump, slackmouth and stunned, as report after report tumbles out detailing the lies, manipulations, the brutal and callous evils being perpetrated by this administration.

But here is a case where if we don’t act, and soon, our privacy and our liberty are in grave peril. If we do act, we can have an effect. There is some momentum building against implementation of the Act. Some states are refusing to comply. More state governments will resist, too, if they know this expensive, invasive boondoggle is strongly opposed by their constituents. The Act can be repealed, if enough people push back.

So please. Take action. Contact your state and federal officials today. Urge them to fight this horrific invasion of privacy. (It’s strongly recommended that you send a fax, if at all possible; email is often ignored, and snail mail can take up to three months to reach the intended recipient.) Support the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.

And now, we bring you the latest installment in our on-going ‘Cultural Awareness’ series, where we present stuff that you really need to know about if you’re going to be One of Us.

Keef and Willie generously allowed Hank Williams III and Ryan Adams to sit in on this one, but you can ignore that part. It won’t be on the test.

As you may know, Two-Headed Baby also does this song.

We play it just as well as these guys do.

In my dreams.

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Props to BooMan at BoomanTribune for surfacing this one.