Saluting Bjork's courage.

Here's a salute to the avant-pop artiste Bjork for daring to say the word "Tibet" at the close of a recent concert in Shanghai.  Of course, the price of outspokenness will be that Bjork will never get to perform in China again--but at least she momentarily raised a human-rights issue that the part Communist/part capitalist government would prefer its own citizens--and visitors from the West-- to avoid thinking about.

Tags: Bjork, Tibet, Chinese government, Dalai Lama, human rights abuses