There was a thread about the lack of good train wreck and flood songs anymore (I know, I started it). The only person I can think of who writes (wrote) good ballads about these things any more is Bob Dylan, out of the ballad tradition. He could write a good one about McVeigh, given his propensity to deal in apocalypse. Dylan's remarks about Lee Harvey Oswald at a banquet sometime after the Kennedy assassination where he said he knew how he felt, were typically greeted with horror. Someone should phone him up. "Hey, Bob, how would you like to have the Academy take back your Oscar?" ("It's not dark yet, but it's getting there")

yours, Peter T.

P.S. Dylan wrote a really dreary song about the Israel/Arab struggle called "Neighbourhood Bully" on Infidels.