By the way, there's a transcript of the speech for those of us that missed it.

http://grammy.aol.com/features/speech.html

He does specifically say ``ripping is stealing [recording artists'] livelihood''. (Emphasis mine.) Idiot.

But a big congratulations to Steve Martin (and Earl Scruggs and some other folks) for winning an Instrumental Country Grammy for, you guessed it, Foggy Mountain Breakdown!

I'd like to talk about politics, but first, a little Foggy Mountain Breakdown!