[Jim Scott]

I always found John Mellencamp's music to be derivative as well as banal. I never bought the 'small-town bad-boy' image either. Mellencamp worked way too hard at it. Now this from Mellencamp:

"This revenge thing I'm not big on. Nationalism has led people down the wrong path before."

6,000 + dead on American soil and when we strike back it's 'nationalism'?
Mellencamp is entitled to his idiotic opinion but this kind of mushy-headed foolishness is why these 'rock stars' have to be called on this anti-American crap. They don't have a clue and they need to be challenged on their foolish opinions, not fawned over. John Mellencamp is a fool if he believes our response to September 11th is sheer 'nationalism'. An overpaid, overpraised and over-exposed fool, at that.

[Azzurri]

If anybody's interested, John Mellencamp is going to be on Letterman in the next half hour. It's possible, but not likely, that he's going to offer some pearls of wisdom during his appearance.