analyze the lyrics of "Do they know it's Christmas" here

i DO try to be even-handed -- i'm a libra -- but i can't accept this award because i have no idea what you're talking about. i defended your assertion that the quality of the song isn't relevant to the cause of helping poor people in africa, because i do in fact agree with that assertion. i disagree with, and did not defend, your assertion that it's therefore morally wrong to even discuss the quality of the song and doing so makes us a bunch of dickheads who are simultaneously too smart ("over-educated") and too dumb ("facile").

one of the nice things about living in a democratic nation is that we're free to pick and choose who and what we agree with, and we even have the right to agree with certain people some of the time and disagree with them some of the time. or at least i think we still are; i haven't checked with my democratically elected leader lately.

I loved how they just couldn't resist the close up video shot of Sting during this line.

^^Came here to post exactly that--the Sting name-dropping in the middle of this song.

Holiday radio would be a lot more fun if DJs would play the 12" version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnKiT1aaxSQ

I love it when Bowie totally Debbie Downers the whole party.

the snow part gets me because While several mountain ranges in North Africa see snowfall on a regular basis it is very rare for snow to settle at lower altitudes, especially on the savannahs. ... Nonetheless, snow on the plains, anywhere on the African continent, remains incredibly rare.

Australia doesn't get a white Christmas too often either but they didn't get a song

Well they didn't have a famine did they