Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, and Jackson Browne protect us from nuclear disaster.

Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, and Jackson Browne have teamed up to fight nuclear power – come on can’t we do better than those three?

Gina Faridniya kindly alerted me to a New York Times article reporting that the three musicians have banded together to fight nuclear power.

Wait - hold on, it seems that they are not fighting nuclear power directly but rather a spending bill that would give nuke companies a $50 billion loan. It’s weak enough having these three stand up against atomic energy, but now they aren’t even doing that - they’re standing up for the appropriate use on tax dollars.

Graham Nash was quoted in the Times asking, “If it’s such a great business, why doesn’t business do it? Why do they have to make the public pay?” Oh Graham Nash, you are such a heroic libertarian. Maybe next time you should stay at home and let Neil Young do the protesting, it would be a lot more affective that way.

And Jackson Browne? Jackson Browne could not talk congress into switching to low energy light bulbs, let alone change its stance on nuclear energy…

And Bonnie Raitt well – okay I have to come clean. I don’t know anything about these artists and I shouldn’t pick on them. But the idea of 1970’s troubadours fighting Congressional spending, and not the nuclear power head-on, is just kind of lazy.

The trendy artistic community finds itself in a paradox: to be hip you gotta go green, baby. Although nuclear has long been seen as dirty dirty dirty, it’s now as green as a glowing fuel rod. Just ask Nancy Pelosi and Joe Liebermann.

As long as nukes are green, we are not going to get A-list spokespeople to rally against it.

Celebs need to realize that a nuclear reactor is green until it leaks, or oozes, or the fuel is spent – then it emits some of the most toxic stuff on the planet. We need that message sent to the masses, and not the ten people influenced by Raitt, Nash, and Browne.

So Bruce, get off your W kick. Kanye, stop whining about MTV. Keith, get down from the coconut tree, we need to get the message out. Okay, fine Jackson Browne, you can come along too, but you’re only allowed to play Running on Empty.