Puck

Liz and Jay continue to kick out the jams: their latest project–actually one that they’ve been involved in for many years, but that is now seeing the light of the digital day–is a collaboration with Willie Nelson. Yeah, *that* Willie Nelson: he of the tao and the beater guitar and all. “The Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute believes in the Promise of Peace on Earth in Our Lifetime as the Birthright of Our Global Human Family.” Amen to that, brothers and sisters. I’m saying, check it out now–while you still can. The site is full of great ideas that ought to get your compassion flowing. Here’s a verse from a lyric by Willie and Amy Nelson:

There is a peaceful solution. It’s called a peace revolution.
Now let’s take back America.
There’s a war and we’re in it, but I know we can win it.
So let’s take back America.

Now check out Willie singing the whole thing a cappella.

Geroge Bush said the “A” word! Our alcoholic (word is he’s drinking again since his slump in popularity), cokehead president said, last night in his State of the Union address, that the U.S. is “addicted to oil.” Nevermind that Bush had no substantial contribution to make in terms of weaning Americans off the black stuff; it’s shocking that he recognizes that Americans have a disease. Instead, the president wants us to build more nuclear power plants. I think that’s a great idea: while we’re shutting down Iran for building nuke plants (or whatever the hell they’re doing), we’ll build more so that terrorists will have a broader array of targets and so that more enriched uranium can “go missing” to be sold on the black market. Terrorists blowing up nuke plants will save us the trouble of solving a serious problem with nuclear energy: what to do with the waste. Read the rest of this entry »