[lawgirl]

The lyrics comment was not fair, and written by someone who doesn't know crap about U2. Bono is an amazing artist and he has given great amounts of his own personal wealth away. Too bad people that are very uneducated about him try to take pot shots at him.

[timm22]

Too bad people that are very uneducated about him try to take pot shots at him.

I would agree with you were it not for the fact that Bono wants to force me and other Americans to give our hard-earned money to corrupt third world countries.

[The Old Hoosier]

Listen, I completely agree, and I'm a big U2 fan. But it's still really funny to see it written up this way.

[real saxophonist]

He's not that amazing. The Edge is a better musician. Ted Turner has given away lots of wealth too. Couple of weeks ago, I saw a 'Time' magazine, I think, with the title, 'Can Bono Save The World?', or something like that.

[shaggy eel]

,,, take a look at post #42. This is the point I would have made. Artists (broadly defined in Ireland) pay no taxes. Write your next novel, stage your next art exhibition or slap some poetry together with some enchanting photos and you're in! Bono will no doubt be happy when everyone on the face of the planet who's impoverished owns a protected cell company in the Channel Islands.

He may be good at what he does in a musical context but I don't think that point is up for debate here. The point I extract from this article is he's another "I care about the world" Bob Geldoff success runner. Tiresome, transparent, large scale, recipe from a cookbook altruism - [yawn] it's been done before.