Gotta get down to it

Year by year, this is more like remembering when a "disappointed office-seeker" shot Garfield (sadly, the president, not the cartoon cat), but with a few minutes left of the fourth of May, I want to mention that today is the 36th anniversary of this.

What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

On April 30th, 1970, President Nixon announced on national television that the US had for some time been bombing Cambodia--a neutral country, through which the North Vietnamese were running supply lines. This came as a shock to the American public, although not so much to the Cambodians, who (as Doonesbury noted at the time) had noticed the bombing right away.

Demonstrations of protest broke out on campuses across the country. And on May 4th, four students were killed, and three more wounded, by National Guard fire at Kent State. Let's be clear: American citizens were shot while protesting an illegal military action by their government.

Within about two weeks, Neil Young had written, recorded with Crosby, Stills & Nash, pressed, and distributed "Ohio."

And now, he's got a new album with the cut "Let's Impeach the President." I'm so delighted that I can link to the lyrics at--of all places--Fox News. (You can hear the whole album streaming here.)

I'd like to think that the moral is: Don't lie to the American public and conduct illegal, clandestine wars to protect your presidency.

But perhaps the moral is simply this: Don't piss off sixty-year-old Canadian rockers.