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Betrayed by Spain and oppressed by Morocco, the Saharawi people of Western Sahara compare themselves to the Palestinians or the black majority in apartheid South Africa. And they want the world to know their story.

If you're a fan of he Mountain Goats ,then you can skip this, because you already know that the John Darnielle-headed folk group are wonderful, and you already have your tickets to see The Mountain Goats' documentary/concert film The Life of the World to Come at the Northwest Film Forum tomorrow night. If you're not a fan of The Mountain Goats, well, you might never be one, since people tend to ...

A disgruntled U.S. military soldier shot and killed 11 people and wounded another 31 during a rampage at Fort Hood today.img src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/trarticles/~4/cBM_2hlXLIo height=1 width=1/

So I have spent the better part of the day going through my Twitter followers, weeding out the spammers, the “social marketing experts” and the people who just don’t update anymore, and I decided to create a list of some of my favorite Twitterers (Tweeters? Twats?). I was originally going to list 10, which quickly became 20, and soon I just needed to just pick a number and stick to it. 50 works. I picked these 50 for a variety of reasons, because they make me laugh, because they are very act

I haven’t done a blog in a while because the last blog I did really got me thinking about the mentality of people in the metal scene. Most particularly, the mentality of shit talking. We’re all guilty of it. I admitted to shit talking Bring Me The Horizon in magazines over in Europe when I was in God Forbid. I never heard them at that point. But now, I dig them and I feel pretty stupid for slagging them.In my last blog I mentioned my excitement for the band Eryn Non Dae and how I was going to “b