Who's Neil Young?

*** Last week, Neil Young — someone who, until last week, we respected as an artist and dedicated audiophile — pulled his music from Spotify in an effort to truly embrace the roots that made him a famous hippie protest songwriter by — would you believe it — protesting free speech. Namely, the Joe Rogan Experience. First, let’s pause to appreciate the irony of the guy who famously wrote “Ohio” — an ode to the Kent State protests of 1970 — now getting his arthritic bones in a bunch because he thinks that Joe Rogan is spreading “misinformation.” (Just let the Soviet-socialist sound of that phrase, misinformation, sink in for a minute). Rogan’s crime? He interviews world-renowned doctors with moderately dissenting opinions about Covid treatment in between podcasts with standup comedians and people who think the aliens built the pyramids. (We love you, Joe.) Neil Young, we’d almost forgotten you. I used to mourn that fact. Now, maybe not so much. Maybe Young has just smoked so much gras