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And furthermore, shut up, all of you who are telling musicians, actors, filmmakers, authors and such to shut up. "I paid to hear Don Henley sing, not to listen to his political views," whines the ticket holder."Who the hell does Sean Penn think he is, going to Iraq?" fumes the talk-radio guy."Bruce Springsteen thinks making millions with a song-and-dance routine allows him to tell you how to vote," grouses conservative New York senate candidate Marilyn O'Grady, announcing her "Boycott the Boss" campaign.Even quasi-liberal Irvine Mayor Larry Agran sympathized with the people who booed Henley at the Pacific Amphitheatre recently after...

I was a little surprised when I heard that, less than one week after being booed off the premises in Las Vegas for calling Michael Moore a truth-spreading "American patriot", Linda Rondstadt has repeated the offense. At a Thursday evening concert in Livermoore, California, Rondstadt had almost finished without incident, when she returned to the stage and once again dedicated a cover of "Desperadoes" to Michael Moore to plug his "documentary", Fahrenheit 9/11. Slightly less rowdy than the Aladdin Hotel crowd (who hurled drinks at Rondstadt posters and demanded refunds), upwards of 100 concert-goers pointedly walked out. After my initial...

Questions for Kerry, Mr. Hollander’s latest opus, journalistic fun, and more I will apply an old journalistic technique: posing questions that we wish asked of a candidate. George F. Will is especially good at this, sometimes devoting a whole column to questions. I would like to ask John Kerry, oh, just for starters: "What do you think of the Michael Moore movie? The chairman of your party, Mr. McAuliffe, said he believed Moore's theory about Afghanistan — that President Bush went in and toppled the Taliban, not to advance anti-terror objectives, but to benefit his business pals. What do you...