Music is very important to me. But I can't remember it ever changing my political views. Books have though.

I heard a trio of women at the Ottawa Folk Festival on Sunday, just before Arlo Guthrie came on, sing a song, part of which suggested that all men were potential mass murderers of young women. I emailed them, and surprisingly, I got a reply stating that I'd understood the lyrics correctly. Frankly, I doubt many people even noticed this senseless fear-mongering, because the song was otherwise so beautiful and sorrowful. And those people that buy the record? I doubt any will change their minds one way or the other about the dangerousness of men.

It's kind of interesting that someone says: "I think rap exists is because you could get attention & make money." Kind of makes one wonder -- how many people forget that NOT all human efforts are efforts to get money and things? The average kid sees 10,000 commercials a year now.