There was a great scene in the movie “The Commitments” where the young members of a soul band in Dublin discussed the untimely deaths of famous rock stars, at one point debating on who had actually died by choking on their own vomit.

Unfortunately there has been a great number of tragic figures in the music industry, not only because of how they died but because they were great talents snuffed out at such an early age.

There is of course the “27” club, or rather curse, so named on account of the coincidence that some of the most famous rock stars perished at exactly that age … Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Curt Cobain … apparently by drug overdose/suicide.

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We all have heroes and people we’ve idolized growing up, and typically they’ll be athletes or entertainers although sometimes it may actually be someone close to you. So who are the real heroes for most of us ?

Until recently I was always looking up to Football players or Rock musicians, because that was what interested me the most, but as I get on in years I’ve grown in terms of the way I see the world and in determining what is really important in the grand scheme of things.

About 6 weeks ago while driving I was listening to another weekly radio broadcast on Alternative Radio, based in Boulder Colorado, which we get on a feed through our University station here (CJSW, 90.1 FM). This is a fascinating source of info from truly interesting people such as authors, independent journalists, political activists, and so on.

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Would you be alarmed to know that Greenland and Antarctica are melting ? If not you should be. More intense Heatwaves, Hurricanes, Drought and Wildfires will soon be the order of the day as the result of Global Warming (rise in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans due to increased amounts of Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases which trap solar heat), and unfortunately, time is no longer on our side.

To be more blunt, the Canadian and U.S. governments have to cut the crap and do what’s in the best interest of our planet and future generations instead of protecting the interests of Big Business.

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Were these average people unwittingly transformed into heroes once they realized what their hijackers intended to do ? We’ll never know for sure .. all we do know is that the passengers and crew of United flight 93 were indeed unfortunate victims of an insane and cowardly act on Sept. 11th, 2001.

We’re all familiar with the horrific events of that day, tragedy that touched all of us and would forever be burned into the collective conciousness of a nation and the entire world. It was also inevitable that Hollywood would one day slither in and wreak their own brand of injustice on the memory of those events, cashing in (ka-ching) as it so often does with overwrought melodrama masquerading as introspective and thought provoking protrayals of real human stories.

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