It's Friday . . .

. . . and the streets are ours.  Click on this for Richard Thompson's new anti-war song, Dad's Gonna Kill Me (Dad being Baghdad, of course).

This is not a subtle song; it's a blunt chronicle of the horror of war, free of metaphor and artifice.  I can't decide whether this makes it didactic or gutsy, but it's got a catchy tune and Thompson sings it with such intensity that you can almost taste the terror.  I think it would be even better without the band--just Thompson and his guitar might make it even more powerful.