okay, Micky, you're calling db a sucker too for responding 'right on' to Neil's spiel. perhaps resistance to tyranny isn't obedience to a higher whatsit after all? No Brad I'm just saying it's a bit of an insipid if dignified resistance. Your inference that I call db a sucker...well if db is the buddha I meet on the road I'll kill him and hope that he kills me too when our roles are reversed. I disagreed with db when he muttered about hit squads going out and assassinating terrorists...post 9/11...did I not... 

i loved her question as to whether NY was concerned as to a backlash...clearly, she's aboot as familiar with his body of work as Mick is to the AA lifestyle. I recall an argument about who owns 9/11...that belongs to the people who lost loved ones...this 'I share your pain' usually has some selfish underlying motivations.

whether it's any good musically possibly becomes rendered less important by the lyrical content. regardless, i call Neil's viewpoint another step along the path. What will it cost him...his life...his career...Neil's a clever chappie...he knows which way the wind is blowing and that slagging that alcoholic sumbitch in the Whitehouse isn't going to cause too much personal damage. Now if he was protesting on the streets of Nepal it would be a different kettle of fish