Yes setlist, Sands Event Center, Bethlehem, PA - July 18, 2012

• Tempus Fugit
• All Good People
• America
• In the Course of the Day/Clap (Steve Howe solo acoustic)
• Fly from Here (suite)
• Wondrous Stories
• Heart of the Sunrise
• Awaken

encore:

• Roundabout

Alice Cooper setlist, Sands Event Center, Bethlehem PA - July 1, 2012

• The Black Widow 
• Brutal Planet 
• Eighteen 
• Under my Wheels 
• Billion Dollar Babies 
• No More Mr. Nice Guy 
• Hey Stoopid
• Is It My Body 
• Halo of Flies 
• I'll Bite Your Face Off 
• Muscle of Love
• Only Women Bleed 
• Cold Ethyl
• Feed My Frankenstein 
• Caffeine 
• Poison 
• Wicked Young Man
• I Love the Dead 
• School's Out

Encore:

• Elected

And the wonderful Blue Coupe opened for Alice. These guys rock (buy their album)! Their setlist:

• More Cowbell (?)
• Burnin' for You 
• You (Like Vampires)
• Cities on Flame (with Rock and Roll)
• Angels Well
• Waiting for my Ship
• Astronomy
• Godzilla
• Don't Fear the Reaper

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (and other cool pics)

If you're not checking the Astronomy Picture of the Day each day, you're missing out on some cool wallpapers (like today's). Just sayin'.

The Machine, Penn's Peak - June 16, 2012 setlist

• Learning to Fly
• Shine on you Crazy Diamond
• Happiest Days of our Lives
• Another Brick in the Wall, part 2
• Fat Old Sun
• Breathe
• Time
• Hey You
• (intermission)
• Pigs
• The Final Cut
• The Albatross
• Wish you were here
• Keep Talking
• Empty Spaces/ What Shall We Do Now
• Young Lust
• Brain Damage

Encore:

• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
• Comfortably Numb

Molly Hatchet, Penn's Peak - June 9, 2012 setlist

• Whiskey Man 
• Bounty Hunter 
• Gator Country 
• American Pride 
• Regrinding the Axes 
• Drum Solo 
• Beatin' the Odds 
• The Creeper 
• Dreams I'll Never See 
• Free Bird (with Jimmie Van Zant)
• Juke City 
• Flirtin' with Disaster

And opening act Jimmy Van Zant Band:

• That's How I Like It 
• Traveling Man 
• Double Trouble 
• Simple Man 
• That Smell 
• Ray Ray's Juke Joint 
• Ain't Quite MaryJane 
• Feels Like Freedom 
• Sweet Home Alabama

Unfortunately, no setlist for opening, opening act (yes, you read that right) Blackfoot. They did play CSNY's Ohio, I remember. Feel free to add more in the comments.

(setlists courtesy setlist.fm)

The Battle of Athens: Restoring the Rule of Law

How the Greatest Generation dealt with corruption in government:

Spending less time online = more happiness

Here's a great little essay exploring the result of a recent Stanford study, that "spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy." I've said this before: turn off the computer and go outside; spend some time living out in the world. We are becoming a society addicted to social media, reality television, and infotainment. Much of the content we consume is vapid and uninteresting. Go read a book, fly a kite, ride a bike, or build a snowman. Live, man, live.

Brave response - Occupy Oakland

• Dear Oakland Mayor Quan, you do not need to call me, here is MY response to YOUR demands

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolution­ary act." - George Orwell

Verizon Releases Anti-Union Propaganda, CWA Strikes Back With Parody Video

Verizon Releases Anti-Union Propaganda, CWA Strikes Back With Parody Video (via Crooks and Liars)

The music of Occupy Wall Street

Wired does a nice roll-up on the music of Occupy Wall Street. The hacker radio show Off the Hook has also featured songs from the Occupy movement.

Ray guns rock

Here's an interesting article from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum regarding early ray guns (toys, unfortunately; you didn't think I meant real ray guns, did you? Those are top secret).

Why occupy?

This is why: writer of FamilyGuy describes his arrest in Occupy LA.

"Pine trees know when it's Easter"

Yes, it's the Christmas season, but I've been meaning to post this for a while: Pine trees know when it's Easter.

Social Security Administration comic books from the 1950s

Scroll down on this page to the heading The Comic Book Series.

Quote: You were not made to strive for the accumulation of wealth.

Great essay: A Life Worth Living.

Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman setlist, Sherman Theater, Stroudsburg PA - Nov. 5, 2011

• Intro 
• Starship Trooper 
• Sweet Dreams 
• Forever 
• And You and I 
• The Living Tree (Pt. 1) 
• Long Distance Runaround 
• America 
• Garden 
• The Living Tree (Pt. 2) 
• Time and a Word 
• South Side of the Sky 
• Wondrous Stories 
• Just One Man 
• Nous Sommes Du Soleil 
• Leaves of Green 
• 23/24/11 
• Your Move 
• All Good People 
• House of Freedom 
• Awaken 

Encore:

• Roundabout 
• Soon 
• The Meeting

Stand Up - Occupy Wall Street

Paris under water (future vision?)

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

What does Occupy Wall Street collectively want?

Apt insight via the New York Times: "The problem is that no one in Washington has been listening."

About describes it in a nutshell, doesn't it? It's not just the bailouts for the rich, or the unpunished, illegal corporate greed that brought the economy to the brink of ruin - it's Washington's ignorance of the problem, its refusal to obey the will of the people, and its blatant submission to its corporate masters.

We've had enough.

What we learned from 5 million books

What we learned from 5 million books (video on TED.com)