The Sidwell Friends Alumni Association had their annual gala last night, and one of the singers was an alum named Erik Thorson. He is a country musician from Nashville who has written the usual lovesick blues songs and some folksy ones as well.
Indicative of the way the political winds are blowing, however, Mr. Thorson wowed the crowd with a new song that hits right at the heart of George W. Bush's hypocrisy: Bush wants to send more and more of our young people to die, yet when he himself had the chance to defend the Red, White and Blue, he was "The Man Who Didn't Go."
Check it out for yourself. This song should be sung at the march on Washington on the 27th and at every rally where people want to be reminded why this entire war (and especially this "surge") must be stopped.