Let’s just say I was making up for missing Nine Inch Nails as they performed in Salt Lake City the day I was en route to Nepal. Last night I joined 20,000 other Utahns sedately bobbing my head to four greying men (U2) playing familiar tunes from the radio. They’re officially ancient now, like the Rolling Stones, and they can charge whatever they want and say whatever they want on stage and people will (myself included, Mr. Kneejerk) buy into it. Bono, the frontman and lead ego for the band, has made a habit out of antics and political preaching during his shows, and since there doesn’t seem to be quite as much discontent in Ireland any more he’s turned his powerful influence (zombie mind control) to a much wider and more beneficial cause, ONE. During the concert he spent an interlude educating on povery and hunger and urged the audience to sign up on their cell phones with the ONE.org petition. Bono has been in the news quite a lot, leading a charge for our wealthier nations to forgive the debts of the world’s poor and struggling third world countries. The idea is that their debt has overwhelmed them and they end up spending more on the interest than they do on health care and education. These countries are primarily in Africa where poverty and AIDS are thinning the population like genocide, and ONE believes that by pulling together a bit we can turn back the torrent of misfortune.