Off I go to listen to it.

I always loved her singing on “Haunted” with Shane MacGowan.

How very sad that someone so intelligent, beautiful and talented, who made such a huge contribution to the arts and other causes, should have to suffer so, her entire life.

Just the footage of Kristofferson grabbing her into a hug thawed mine.

You are correct. I didn’t mean that every artist was against her. I just remember that the ones who were didn’t apologize.

Only 56.

Sinead wrote that she was lost without her son Shane, the twin of her soul, who died 18 months ago after escaping a hospital where he had been on suicide watch.

She held on to this life as long as she was able before stepping into mystery. May her spirit know peace, and her memory be a blessing always. 

Indeed. Mental illness is a sane reaction having to suffer through life in an insane world. Then she lost her son, a major tragedy that would break any soul. May she be at peace, wherever she is.

“Black Boys on Mopeds” was (and still is) such a powerful song, and so unlike anything that a “pop star” might put out at that time.  Hope she finds peace in the next life.

She was one hell of a artist. Defiant and strong and unabashedly human. She was lambasted for years after the SNL shit (I remember Joe Pesci threatening her the next show and getting applause for it) and she never caved. And the end, she was right all along and no one apologized for making her a pariah.

You weren’t a “troubled soul,” Sinead. Your soul RIGHTFULLY responded to the shit you were surrounded by and lived through. RIP.

This one really hurts. I knew Sinéad very very briefly during secondary school (she was a few years ahead of me). I remember being in awe of her and a bit afraid of her and amazed at her talent all at the same time. Even then, we all knew she had ‘something’. Go back and listen to Lion & the Cobra; when you do,…

If sky dad didn’t exist in our culture already they’d just invent him on the spot and declare some creepy guy who hates women their prophet. The sky dad religion isn’t the cause of all our problems, it’s just another phenomenon that goes hand in hand with the patriarchy and wherever men are there is a sky dad who…

Fuck Off.

I would counter this with adding a death sentence for any man who impregnated a person who is know to be at risk of having a high-risk pregnancy or who dies as a result of a heretofore unknown risk.

I love how in the picture they’re all praying. Because, let’s not fool ourselves, it’s because of this magician in the sky that we’re in the place we’re in. To put it another way, these people are anti-abortion zealots because of a fictional story that’s been rewritten a million times. Fuck this shit.

quite a missed opportunity with all of them in one place...

“disregard for optics” is, I believe, the current GOP platform.

If they are ever able to get this kind of legislation through, then I bet their next step will be to legalize rape. But also, eliminate child support. 

They’re not that smart.