Bodon’tkno Best

Bodon'tknow Best

So, Bono is now nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. We now know the apocalypse is near.

Is anybody else out there sick and tired of hearing Bono say anything without a melody involved? For those living under a rock (like Sean Penn), Bono is the front man for U2. U2 might be the best rock band left that hasn’t lost at least one or two members to drug abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, accidental death and/or dismemberment, or Yoko Ono and still can go out on stage at venues outside of the Ozark Mountains without making fans think they just spent $125 a ticket to watch fossils grow moss.

Look, I don’t have a beef about musicians that have opinions about social morals, politicians, how they can get the chick weed out of everybody’s lawns better than you or me, or whatever else is on their mind. However, if you’re going to rally for a big cause, at least do some homework. Bono has spent over 20 years whining on about poverty and starvation in the Third World (as opposed to poverty and starvation resulting from buying, for instance, U2 albums and concert tickets) and, over time, has even managed to get attention from political leaders who really dig cool photo-ops.
Recently, the aspiring Nobel Peace Prize recipient (hey, if you want to join the assorted terrorists and other leeches that have won in the past, suit yourself) decided to bash George Bush figuring "Hey, Paul Martin's out of power so I need somebody else to pick on in North America". This while flogging a credit card. "Help poverty. Spend credit like there's no tomorrow." Makes sense....

Where is that politician who will have the balls to step up to sanctimonious jackasses like Bono and give them a lesson in how the Third World operates? The fact of the matter is that these places are basically tribal colonies operated by benevolent dictators and their little clique of sychophants who have no use for foreign aid except to line their own pockets. There are no infrastructures like the industrial world enjoys because it would simply mean less money for the top. Would anyone like to see Bono spend a few hundred grand of his own loot to build an irrigation system in Niger? He wouldn’t. You know why? No, not because he’s a convenient cheapskate but because he’d either never get the permits to do it or he’d end up with a bullet to the back of his head at about the 10 percent point of completion for not going through protocols (which in most of the Third World means “pay me”.)

I guess it could have been worse – he could have pursued an acting career….

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