Er? I was pretty active this week I think. I'm up and down, time wise, thanks to taking time off work. I do most of my commenting to give my brain a break from the doldrums of office work.

It's amazing to me how often we go hard on these same people when we really don't know them. I don't know the Carters. From what I have read about her she seems like a really decent person. She's done a lot for different causes that hasn't been widely publicized. I'm just as concerned about what my policy makers and…

Memory is a funny thing.

When Anthrax covered "Bring The Noise" with Public Enemy, a fair number of their record buyers - white and bigoted - got pissed off. Scott Ian's response was that he didn't want them as fans, and would have spoken out if he had known the group was a favourite of racists.

Exactly. I expect someone like Tom Morello, Manic Street Preachers, Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys or John Legend to make a protest song. I don't expect nor do I really want Beyonce to do it. I can get behind her making empowering female anthems because she's known for that. She's not known for being particularly…

I think it's a mistake to look at a song like "Ohio" and say it wasn't that big a hit because it peaked at #14. Setting aside the fact that charting that high does count as a big hit, you have to remember that those charts count how it did strictly as a single. It was probably played a ton on FM radio, which was more…

I'd like more public figures to be bold and stand up for what they believe in, but I also don't think anyone has a responsibility to do so. I like it when they do, but I don't believe they're obligated. That's my only distinction that I think matters.

Beyoncé has been busy doing the feminist thing.

Life is complicated for athletes too. But I'm not willing to argue that Michael Jordan should be considered as great a figure as Muhammad Ali.

beyonce is the biggest star, and with the greatest exposure comes the greatest responsibility

What does Beyonce have to do with protest songs? Why is she the one who is always brought up no matter what the complaint? She has done a good deal to show her feminist leanings.

Questlove is reaching badly.

Every movie ever that is set at any point during the Vietnam war has "Fortunate Son" in there somewhere. We need a song that is so good and representative of our times, it becomes cliche when it inevitably plays during a movie that is set in this era.