“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”

“One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.”

Check out more about Zach de la Roche and Rage Against the Machine here.

And folks, let’s have Killing in the Name as a Christmas #1, yeah?  Download the song now, and for the first time in years we’ll be hearing some music with balls after the Queen’s speech … a song about something real, written by people who care.

Other links:

RATM on BBC5 Live

And here’s an amusing YouTube vid

My daughter has been learning about the Second World War in school (yay for our schooling system!), and I’ve been reading quite a lot about that war lately.  I’ve always been interested in it – I had family at Dunkirk, Singapore, prisoner on the Railway of Death, Africa, and on the Norway raids.  And it’s good to see Ellie’s interest as well.  So many people I know are hardly aware it even happened.

This is one of the best quotes about war I’ve ever heard.  It’s from H. G. Wells, and  it speaks so much of why we do need to tell our kids about what happened.

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

“Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

Find out more about Harlan Ellison …

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

More about W. Somerset Maugham …