Of Guitar Heroes and Guitar Cowards

Proving himself the coward I knew him to be, rocker Ted Nugent backtracked from his earlier comments, scurrying for cover behind the skirt of saying he was only speaking metaphorically when stating that he would be “dead or in jail” next year if Obama is reelected. Sadly, the Secret Servicemen who paid him a visit, much like Ted, simply don’t know what a metaphor is: “A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another.” But, of course, only a true pussy could write a song called “Cat Scratch Fever.” BILL