[Superman]

Art's value is in how it makes you feel when you see or hear it. Sometimes the intended feeling is not butterflies and warm breezes and pixie dust. Artists sometimes make us look at things that are not pretty. Like slavery. Be repulsed. He probably intended that, despite his curious apology.

I happen to appreciate Mr. Young's unwashed, unbleached style of songwriting and also his style of speaking. Some of the folks next door don't keep their mouths shut. I do not hold Fint and Neil to different standards. They both can say what they want.

There seems to be no shortage of public personalities making incendiary statements these days. Neil seems tame by comparison with some others. So yeah, I wonder why we are throwing him under the bus here. Or anybody.