Poor Man About Town

Live 8 is on the horizon and pop stars are falling over themselves to become holier than thou over starvation and poverty in Africa. At the bottom of this is not really concern over the hungry and poor, oh no, it's really an advertising vehicle that says about pop star "look how cool and right-on I am, you really must buy my records". Free advertising came in one of today's tabloids where Joss Stone said something to the effect that politicians make her sick and they should get off their arse. Well Joss, why don't you get off yours and dig a well in the Sahara? Such statements are quite lame when seen in this context.