A woman in her 30s said it was an accident.

She said: “I was dancing, holding the sweet up. Then I was pushed and it flew from my hand.”

They pushed me really hard, that is, and right at the top of my arm movement, someone hit me with a taser gun, causing my wrist to snap forward and release the lollipop at high speed on a flat trajectory up into Bowie's eye.

If not for the taser gun, my lollipop might have just landed on top of someone's head or on the floor. You should be looking for the guy with the taser gun.

It seems that Liberalism also prefers to run an economy with Macroeconomics, while the Reagan revolution was a return to Microeconomics.

Maybe its just in all spheres that the Left believes that 'societies' are wholly different creatures from the individuals within them, and that they respond to different incentives.

For people who believe that 'societies' are creatures with a will of their own, that actually exist apart from any given member, I could see how you might believe that.

But it doesn't make any sense.

Considering it's Bowie, are you sure it wasn't a "little boy lollypop"?

See, also:

Tim "I will fucking find you and I will fucking hurt you" Robbins.

I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes

And when I get excited
My little China Girl says
Oh baby you should have shut your eye
She says ... sh-sh-shhh

Ace,

Who has Bowie called an idiot monster?

GWB?

Just asking.

Arik?

Shit, this may ruin my day.

I wrote,

And swells like David Bowie call him an idiot monster for doing so.

Which was a bit vague about whether David Bowie, or just swells like Bowie, called Bush and Sharon monsters. I meant it to be vague, because I don't know Bowie's actual politics.

I will say, though, that your strong desire to believe that David Bowie isn't a super-leftist reminds me of kids I knew in high school who were quite insistent that Boy George, whose music they liked, was straight as an arrow.

I don't know Bowie's politics. I do know he's 1) British 2) bisexual (this may be redundant with #1) and 3) a trendy, progressive artiste.

This doesn't profile as "conservative" to me.

Ace (Smitty),

Actually Bowie appeared resolute in his condemnation of the terrorists that perpetrated the 9-11 attacks. He has lived in NYC and was quite keen to protect it.

Also, at the Bowie concert in Las Vegas this February, before he sang "I'm Afraid of Americans" he said to the crowd (I will have to paraphrase here) something like, "When this song came out I felt it meant one thing, and now after 9-11 I feel it means something else. Good thing to be afraid."

The Vegas crowd cheered.

So I was surprised to read that your post.

And no, despite his life in the arts and his sexuality, he seems to be pretty grounded when it comes to the war, at least the few times I read or heard his statments about it.

And lastly, there are many liberals, moderates, libertarians, etc. who seek to destroy the radical Islamists, not just conservatives. But you knew that.

First of all, I want to make it clear that I was trying to be jocular in making the Boy George comparison. That was intended to make you smile. It wasn't a joke at your expense. I Just thought it was a funny comparison.

Second, as I said, I don't know David Bowie's politics. All that stuff you just said: I didn't know that. Consider me informed.

Although, let's be realistic, a lot of artists said they were all pro-American and anti-terrorist after 9-11, and a lot have become less so since then. Paul McCartney, for example.

And third, yes, you're right, a liberal could favor America defending herself, but that would be a liberal with a conservative view on national defense. That's how I meant "conservatve" -- conservative on this issue.

Smitty,

Thanks.

And yes, you're correct.

When the "cultural elite" (as VDH so aptly has named them) realize that defending one's country might mean, you know, like going to war with like, guns and stuff, they have been known to explode in spasms of narcissism and lunacy, to wit: "Not in Our Name".

As if.

Smitty,

Paul McCartney.

LOL.