Before we hit the road

we want to say, what up with celebrities and politics these days? Yes, it started in our formative years--think Bono, Bob Geldoff, and Sting--but now you've got every fucking two bit star who wants to be resurrected going to a peace conference and setting their hair on fire or something in protest of the cause du jour. Gives new meaning to "cause celebre":

As Germaine Greer knows, it doesn't always work. She stalked out of the gilded cage, otherwise known as Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother, saying she had only gone in the house in the first place to raise money for the Australian rainforest. It had, she said, "earned me a lump of cash that will be the rainforest cushion". But it turned out to be her own land she was trying to restore.

(It's annoying, that's all I'm saying.)