Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix Neil Young's hot under the collar and the reason is George Bush. The rocker has had it with Georgie playing around with the country, saying, "This big deal about Bush landing on an aircraft carrier? Talk about a 6-year-old kid with a Tonka toy -- we got it here." And Young was also frank about the culture wars he sees waging: "Bush has polarized the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat." Neil's in England right now, so he probably didn't hear that that's already happened. (Guardian)"

Streak is a big Neil Young fan, so he called this to my attention immediately. I am sure that some GOP defenders will scoff at this, but you don't exactly see Republicans encouraging dissent or embracing it. That isn't as silly as it sounds: it would be certainly reasonable to see dissent as proof of our democracy. Instead, we have gotten the Karl Rove/Ari "I Quit" Fleischer approach--to warn people for speaking out against Bush.