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“Killing in the Name” performed by George Mason marching band. Yes.

I’m sorry. Did I say “performed”?

I meant slayed.

(And check out the girl in red. She is doing pretty much exactly and precisely what I do in my wee little home office when listening to Rage. Only I do it without a piccolo. Or youth).

(Video after the jump).

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Today's mood brought to you by Rage Against the Machine.

Today’s mood:

The reasons for my rage?

Oh my God, so many!

But we’ll go with this one for now:

Rick Perry’s Juvie Record

Why did the GOP presidential contender wait six years to clean up the culture of child rape at Texas youth detention centers?

For years, the Texas juvenile justice system was wracked by reports of rape, unsanitary conditions, and physical abuse. According to statistics submitted by the [Texas Youth Commission] in 2007, 83 percent of residents who requested counseling that year were ultimately diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. At one youth facility in central Texas, the mistreatment and squalid conditions (feces on the walls and bed-sheets, steel bars blocking fire escapes) were so bad they left no choice but for the agency to shut it down entirely.

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