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Ah booooooooooooooooooo.

Bono, the lead singer of the band U2 and a co-founder of the advocacy group ONE and (Product)RED, is a contributing columnist for The Times.

What a disgrace. Anyone would be better. Give the space to Lanny Davis or Dick Morris. God damn this guy and his Serious Commitment To The Poor and his namedropping and his Bloomberg endorsements and his G-8 globetrotting and his Embrace Of Social Media and his deep respect for Angela Merkel. He no doubt hangs out with Richard Branson and they fast together For Darfur and Tweet about it together. I'm not going to fact check that, because if it isn't true it might as well be. Also, has he won the Nobel Peace Prize yet? If not, it's overdue.

I'm glad I don't have to rank the NYT's Development Boys (they're all in effect this Sunday, so look out, Global Problems) from Worst to Less Worst; deciding whether Tom Friedman or "Bono" is more terrible would be tough. Nick Kristof would get Less Worst, no contest, but he's still guilty as hell. I guess if it came down to it I could put them through a battery of tests: who has more youtube videos of themselves acting a donk somewhere in Africa, who can drop the most names in a minute, who can carry the white man's burden with the stiffest upper lip, etc.