Tom Dispatch recently mentioned former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega’s new book United States v. George W. Bush et al., which is a fictitious, though not unrealistic, look at how the President and members of his administration might be indicted for defrauding the US public with regards to Iraq. If you’d like to read the actual ‘indictment’ from the book, click here. While only fiction, it’s not as if her case isn’t well researched and presented.

Beyond that, Iraq isn’t in a state of civil war, the members of NATO might have differing opinions about their roles in Afghanistan but everything there’s pretty much peachy, Darfur still seems to be extremely difficult to locate in most people’s atlases, depending on who you talk to in Quebec things are either going very well for separatists or very well for federalists, and a few more puppets have released albums that will no doubt, in thirty years, become anchors for numerous biographies and best of collections that will stand as testaments to their everlasting impact on music.

I’ve always been able to uncomfortably live with the fact that after killing the radio star, video was never convicted of a crime; but this shopping-mall-musical-contestant-turned-super-star horseshit is too much. Can you imagine what would happen were a young Robert Allen Zimmerman to appear, acoustic in hand, before the likes of Jake Gold, Zack Werner, and Sass Jordan? He’d most likely be ridiculed to placate an audience of sycophantic morons and then shown the door. Ironically, not one person involved with that show is fit to lick one of Dylan’s boot heels. And while the development of grass roots talent is thrust aside for quick dollars, the future of this country’s artistic landscape slides further into the abyss.

No matter, I’m sure someone will come up with something before it’s too late. After all, being that CTV paid comparative pennies for the rights to broadcast Live8, and most likely made millions off of advertising during the broadcast, I’m sure Canadians can look to them, and like minded media giants, to help save the integrity of the very thing that they’ve helped destroy.

Right?