While reading the NYTimes on Sunday morning, I noticed a link on the home page to an op-ed by Bono (first, Stanley Fish and now Bono... just what are they smokin' over at Times HQ?) all about what he learned from Frank Sinatra. Which I, of course, did not read. Pretty much the last thing I need with my morning coffee is a side dish of bloviating rock star. Turns out I wasn't the only one who noticed. Yes, it's a contest to best sum up Bono's pretentious twaddle. As previously mentioned, I'm not the one to judge since I couldn't bring myself to actually read the op-ed. But I sense they're probably right on target. Now, you might be thinking that having a professor of international politics from Tufts going after Bono is kinda like hunting moths with air-to-air missiles. And you'd be right.
That's what makes it funny.

ETA: Apparently, NYTimes had to run a correction to Mr. Vox's debut effort after he mistakenly identified Nelson Riddle as the arranger of "My Way" instead of Don Costa. Now, in Bono's defense, the wiki entry for "My Way" does not name the arranger of the Sinatra version. So he had to take a guess. Or he could have looked at the wiki entry for Riddle which notes that he mostly stopped working with Sinatra in 1966 and remembered that "My Way" was done in 1967.
I'm just saying...