We are going to be a bit more subtle this week. After all, what says subtle if not the Fourth of July? Kaboom!!

For that matter, what says subtle if not the United States under the current King George? Kaboom!!

This week’s video puts the flag to a different use. It is “What Would Jesus Do?” by Chris Thomas King. I have heard that question posed many times, but this may be the first time when the speaker actually seems to be asking the question.

"People were starving for water, for nutrition, for medicine, and all people seemed to care about was: Is somebody guarding the property, guarding the store?" King says, recalling the inspiration for the song from his new home/studio in Prairieville, La., about 40 minutes outside New Orleans. "America had a moral lapse of reason. Instead of sending a life raft, they were in a military and police mind."

That paragraph is from his website — www.christhomasking.com — where you can read more about the home he lost to Katrina, the difficulties he has had trying to rebuild and return to the city, the death of his mother in December of ’05. The man has lived the New Orleans experience these past years.

And in true New Orleans tradition, he takes that experience and puts it to music. Here is a contemporary bluesman. Watch the video, and be sure to listen to the lyrics: “Standing outside the Walgreen’s with a stone in my hand/I ask myself, would Jesus understand?”

Good question.