Actually Bill, you've just made a great point. How DO we feel about writers who've changed their positions over the years? Does it make us not want to listen to their old music, if we differ politically with where they are now?

Or what if WE've changed our position but were in agreement when we first heard that artist's music?

For example, I learned all the old Clancy Bros. IRA songs, but after seeing a few dead bodies on TV, I just couldn't sing the songs anymore...and I had trouble listening to them, because they seemed so "hearty and.....well....innocent. It's not a "one side or the other" thing, just that it's hard to sing "Johnson's Motor Car" when you know how many folks on both sides (and especially in the middle) have died.

As to old Cat, he's chosen to become a fundamentalist, so hatred of Israel is just "part of doing business". An Orthodox Jew is going to be in the same situation regarding Palestine. Whether it's there or Ireland, or countries in Africa, "guns and God" are the tools everyone uses. I'd replace 'em with Marx.

Groucho, that is.

Rick (who's obviously going straight to hell)