From Jingle Singer to Mover & Shaker

I'm not registered with any political party, and I'm far from sympathetic to Karl Rove, but when Clairol's Revlon's spokeswoman goes to the White House correspondents dinner to raise a ruckus over what she perceives as the most important issue of our day, it kinda makes me mad. Not because it isn't an important issue, it very well may be (after all, The Clash were onto this years ago - "The ice age is coming - the sun's zooming in) but because Sheryl Crow is not a global climate scientist. All she did was go see Al Gore's movie. Fine, Sheryl, go raise awareness, but start getting militant on me and I'm not hearing you much longer.

Sheryl got her start singing jingles in St. Louis. Her first hit was "All I Wanna Do." She acknowledges that the lyrics weren't hers (lifted from a poetry book) and she eventually got the poet who wrote them $50K in royalties. What she's never confessed is that the music from that song was stolen from the Stealers Wheel song "Stuck in the Middle with You." Listen to both songs and tell me it isn't true.

I know celebrities see it as their duty to use their celebrity to educate us groundlings on the concerns that concern them, but maybe educate yourself just a little before you start preaching. Here's a snapshot of Ms. Crow's perfect world.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.

I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she was speaking tongue in cheek.

Clowns to the Left of me. Jokers to the Right.