Caught, Can I Get A Witness

Gift idea for your favorite blogger: The College Dropout, by grammy-nominated rapper Kanye West. Besides getting near-universal praise from divergent musical tribes, the album apparently* drops some advanced semiotics.

West is not a Christian rapper by trade (though such creatures exist), but Jesus is the lyrical subject of a rap on which he samples beats from Brand Nubian, a hip-hop outfit staffed mostly with Muslims.

Turntable warfare is a better alternative than invasions, terrorism, and jihad, and it's more danceable. As a way to reconcile cultures, it beats distorted polemics and missionary fanaticism any day.

* San Jose Mecury is a free registration site.