"... get back to your roots."

From the Left Coast Report:

Kanye West is under fire because of February's Rolling Stone cover.

Wearing a crown of thorns with blood running down his face, the rapper posed as Jesus Christ for the cover shot.

Inside the publication, Ray West, a sociology professor and former Black Panther, takes his son to task.

Evidently Kanye's father disapproves of the degrading lyrics in his son's songs.

"I've stated to him very clearly that he needs to move beyond the negative language and the 'n****r' statements," Papa West explained to Rolling Stone.

Sounding similar to Bill Cosby, Kanye's father continued, "It's alright to say 'b***h' and 'm***er f***er' on the corner, but when you start operating on a different level you can't talk like that. Fine, you're trying to get some street acceptance. Now that you got that, get back to your roots."

Sounding a familiar parental refrain, he finished up with the statement, "You know that's not where you came from. You know that's not how you were raised."

The Reasonable Nuts wonder what it might be like for a well-adored subset of the popularati to independently, yet simultaneously, break ranks with the morally amorphous and aver some natural or supernatural truths - that is, what might be if some of the publicly amorphous gelled into something of substance.

Said another way, what if it were cool to be conservative?

Mmm... The Reasonable Nuts have been uncool for so long - and have known the GAAC (Generally Accepted As Cool) to be such nincompoops - that a sudden reversal of fortune might drive us off the deep end and reflexively into liberalism. Gasp.