Let's make Henry Rollins our Ambassador to Australia!

Check it out...rocker and spoken word muse Henry Rollins was reported to a National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because he was reading a book with a title that freaked out the flight crew. The book? Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia. It's a 'reference' book, or more a commentary/historical analysis published by Yale University Press.

Oh, the horror! Something from Yale! You know, the university that President Bush graduated from many decades ago!

If anyone needed further evidence that the culture of fear is overtaking our world (or at least the United States and Australia!), here it is. Pretty soon it won't be safe to name your book anything that might be construed as controversial, or something that might get you thrown off a plane. Pretty soon we'll be detaining people for carrying copies of John Grisham's "A Time to Kill," or C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle" onto airplanes with them.

Rollins' response to the Australian office of National Security is chutzpah-riffic. "Please tell your Government and everyone in your office to go f... themselves. Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy." Not a response for the diplomatic ranks, but three cheers for his blunt honesty.