A couple of months ago, with the help of terrific song suggestions from Nation readers, I put together a playlist for Dubya’s iPod. Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief, Green Day’s American Idiot, Kid Rock’s Pimp of the Nation, and REM’s The End of the World, As We Know It, all made the Top Ten. Masters like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Frank Zappa (especially his The Torture Never Stops) were also at the top of many readers’ lists.

The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want, made it to the top fifty. Now, it seems, the band may be gunning for the top slot with its new single. Britain’s New Musical Express reported last week that the next Stones album, slated for release this September, will include a track critical of the Bush gang’s foreign policy. Sweet Neo-Con, according to the weekly, “is believed to be an attack on the politics of George Bush and the Republican Administraton.” Virgin Records has been telling people the song has “a political message about moralism in the White House.”

Jagger giving Dubya morality lessons. I like it. Sympathy for the Devil.