Glad you were able to go! I made it to neither a reading nor a rally today, unfortunately, despite prior plans.

I've been pondering Sting's "Russians" lately. It's from 1985, and it makes the common mistake of a "them" instead of laying responsibility with key individuals in government; it's not bad for mainstream pop, nonetheless. It has its own Wikipedia entry. I wish it weren't relevant at all. (Billy Joel's "Leningrad" (1989) isn't a favorite, but it'd be a better relevance to have.)