Madonna turns La Isla Bonita into a Roman Gypsy festival at Live Earth. She's almost 50, for Pete's sake, and still experimenting. As for Live Earth, I'm allergic to self-righteous pop-stars. But it's still surely a great thing that two years to the day after Islamists terrorized London, a vast, global musical concert can celebrate the freedom to sing and dance in that city, two freedoms Islamists hate and want to destroy.
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