Saturday, November 13, 2004

 

Magister Belli Laughs

Seems a high school group in Boulder decided to perform, in public mind you, Bob Dylan's "Masters of War," and local wingnut busybodies panicked and called the Secret Service, who bestirred themselves enough to come harass the kids on bogus claims that they had "threatened the President."

A warning to the Secret Service: There's a 41-year-old folk-rock song out there, with some pretty harsh and cutting lyrics, about wishing for the death of bloodthirsty warmongers. If somebody sings it, and somebody else hearing it is reminded of Bush -- well, as Someone Who Looks Remarkably Like McNamara said recently: Democracy is messy.

And high school students aren't the only ones reminiscing about those lyrics lately. It's just that some of us are older and wiser now, and know that we can "hide" that sort of thing from you -- by publishing it online.

posted by Michael 1:23 AM