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Similarly, 16-year-olds who want to start voting should be able to obtain an “early voting permit” from their high schools upon passing a simple civics course similar to the citizenship test. Besides increasing voter registration, this system would reinforce the notion of voting as a privilege and duty as well as a right — without imposing any across-the-board literacy tests for those over 18.

And why stop at voting? Sixteen is a good starting point for phasing in adult rights and responsibilities, from voting to drinking to marriage. In reality, this is already when most people have their first jobs, their first drinks and their sexual initiations. The law ought to empower young people to negotiate these transitions openly, not furtively.

• Jolene (audience participation: chorus of oohs near the end)
  
• Frank Sinatra
  
• Arco Arena
  
• Wheels
  
• Ruby Sees All ("Here's a song from back before we were so ironic. Yeah, right. Do you know how serious we are? This is no joke.")
  
• Comfort Eagle ("Here's another ironic song, just a big fucking joke. If we're filled with any frivolous emotion, it's not irony. It's hatred. But I'm not sure that we are.")
  
• War Pigs
  
• Guitar (audience participation: "Imagine that it's about your flat screen TV, someone you used to love, your job that you hate but can't quit because you need health insurance, or whatever. If I threw my _____ out the window... Just let it go. Not so bad, is it?")
  
• Sheep Go To Heaven (audience participation: "Sheep go to heaven / goats go to hell" chorus at the end)
  
• Mexico
  
• Never There
  
• Love You Madly
  
• Shadow Stabbing
  
• Friend Is A Four Letter Word
  
• Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town ("the saddest anti-war song")
  
• Comanche
  
• Short Skirt/Long Jacket (audience participation: "na-na na-na na-na / na-na na-na NA na" battle between left and right sides, with John telling each side how much the other one hates them)
  
• Sad Songs And Waltzes
  
• The Distance

• The Lovemakers opened.
  
• Cake didn't introduce themselves until an hour into their set.
  
• They gave away two saplings to audience members who answered trivia questions and promised to (1) plant the trees in a permanent place, (2) send in a picture of themselves next to the planted tree, and (3) send in another picture in a few years. The first question was "What kind of tree is this?" (redwood, a.k.a. sequoia). The second was "What special instrument is used in the song Guitar?" (musical saw).
  
• Xan said hi to my mom before the show as she was picking up the tickets at will call.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.

There is some concern about the U.S. Government Religions enforcements. I will enforce the U.S. Government Religions enforcement regulating its enforcements itself with its regulations pertaining to itself and according to its enforcements.

Those in charge think they can get away with treating teenagers so carelessly because, really, they don’t consider them their equals. They believe them to be lesser beings over whom they must dominate. They use the excuse that it’s for their own good, but who was this benefiting? If the girl had the ibuprofen, who is she harming? Theoretically, she could have taken the whole bottle if she wanted to kill herself, but that’s a stupid excuse, since there are so many other ways to kill yourself. Could she have given some to a student who was allergic or otherwise could not have it? Well, it’s up to that student to know better. That isn’t a terribly hard concept for a 13-year-old to grasp. Then again, it does seem a hard concept for their adult overlords to grasp.