WHEN DID BONO BECOME AN AMERICAN? “If having it in your heart is all it takes then I am a baseball player. My point is, his statement is not about America but rather about Bono. I guess my problem is not with some Irish singer so much as it is with what he represents. I really don’t need a weekend of people preening about how tragic 9/11 was, as if no one else has those thoughts or feelings. Let the people who lived through it tell their stories.”

Related: “The people whose feelings on that day would interest me most are too busy monitoring the reactors on submarines, playing swap-a-tronics in the electronic guts of a JSTARS, or shooting smelly terrorists in the face to go pose for the cameras in NYC.”