Scott Peterson replies to me concerning Britney Spears:

>Is it Bach or Beethoven or Mozart? Of course not.  Will she be anything
>more than a footnote fifty years from now (assuming some semblance of
>civilization still exists by then, of course)? I seriously doubt it.  But
>I don't think that's any reason to deny her the small amount of credit
>she's due, or to denigrate the intelligence of the public that far.  The
>American public has proven again and again that they will not buy junk
>just because they're told to--they buy junk because they like it.

Every once in a while, I get cranky.  But Scott's final paragraph makes
beautiful sense to me, and even though I suspect something is missing, I
have no idea what it is.

Steve Schwartz