This stuff is not Down in the Willow Garden, folks, which like other songs like it carried a sense of the wrongness of the killing and a regret for doing so. This tripe will turn the thinking person's stomach. And the question isn't his right to compose or perform any ol' song he likes. The real question is what value does the record company find in publishing this blather? The answer, sales show, is obvious. And my real worry isn't the next album he puts out but the coming deluge of imitating "artists" and other companies looking to cash in. That and the world view messages like his can instill in impressionable 8-12 year olds. I heard a mother say on TV that she sees it all as a put on, that it's funny to her kids. That, I think, is more the joke.

Rob-o