Bono: Notes From The Chairman

Once upon a couple of weeks ago ...

I'm in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year's. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season's blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed. Malt joy and ginger despair are all in the queue to be served on this, the quarter-of-a-millennium mark since Arthur Guinness first put velvety blackness in a pint glass.

Interesting mood. The new Irish money has been gambled and lost; the Celtic Tiger's tail is between its legs as builders and bankers laugh uneasy and hard at the last year, and swallow uneasy and hard at the new. There's a voice on the speakers that wakes everyone out of the moment: it's Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." His ode to defiance is four decades old this year and everyone sings along for a lifetime of reasons. I am struck by the one quality his voice lacks: Sentimentality.

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Comments

[driven989]

This is off-hand, but there is something I always wondered about Bono -- and now seems like a GREAT time to bring it up. I have heard him champion many worthy causes around the world over the years, but one cause I have never heard him utter a word about is the occupation of Palestine. Why? Whenever there is suffering or injustice you will usually find Bono speaking out in one form or another...­but never about the plight of Palestinians. Why is that? Are you afraid of something? Do you just not care about Palestinian suffering? Hmm, just something random I have always wondered..­.

[SamEllison]

So Bono, the NYTimes is so yesterday.
For what they are paying, you could have blogged here
and probably have a larger readership.
Definitely more comments..­.....