The most conservative rock song of all time

Here's a list of the 50 most conservative rock songs of all time, as published in a recent issue of National Review and now today's New York Times(?). You'll notice "Brick" by Ben Folds Five is at number 23.

Not to suggest that National Review is stealing stories from the Heartless Bastard, but I was on this Ben Folds Five story a long time ago. Back when I was in college, my campus radio station would play commercials from this place called the Lifeline Pregnancy Resource Center that had "Brick" playing in the background.

The LPRC is one of these places that attempts to "counsel" slutty college girls out of getting an abortion by giving them a free package of diapers. And if that doesn't work, they show you some grisly, drivers ed-style video of a woman dying from a botched abortion.

Interestingly enough, if you visit their website, there's a prominently placed photo of two black kids. Hmm... As I've mentioned before, the town where I went to college wasn't exactly Harlem.

In interviews[1], Folds would make it a point to portray the song as being ambivalent about the choice issue; he wasn't making any kind of statement, just relaying an experience. Given the fact that this has been his only real hit to date, don't you think he'd be concerned with it being hijacked by some wacky midwestern abortion nazis?

I'm left with no other choice than to take his failure to sue the LPRC into oblivion as a tacit approval of their agenda.

[1] Does anyone else remember that interview on MTV News where some radio DJ asked Ben Folds Five whose girlfriend it was that got the abortion? Man, those were the days.