What next? Half mast for Bon Jovi? Springsteen? Did New Jersey fly the flag at half mast for Sinatra?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they flew it at half staff for a liberal hack like Springsteen. It would be just as annoying as flying it at half staff for Houston.
Pop culture rules. Culture wars have been lost. Post #9 says it all, and subsequent worshipful posts by some only confirm it. Sir, these are dime a dozen pop singers, two hundred years ago on the street, and on vaudeville stages for the illiterate peasants, now on TV and in Las Vegas for educated, well off people. What has gone wrong? Two wars going on and our heroes are musically illiterate two chord guitar players? Beam me up, Scotty! (And I’m no better than anybody else, except perhaps I try not to worship the likes of Keith Richards.)