Live 8 has been bothering me since it happened, nudging at my consciousness like a shadow memory that you just can’t get a good look at. Then Jonah’s piece this morning made it click — Live 8 is “Hands Across America” with music. Remember that? We were all supposed to go out and make a human chain across the entire country to demonstrate… or prove… or show our support for… something. MTV was involved, as they are in all social movements of importance, and I remember Jay Leno quipping on Letterman, when Jay Leno really was the funniest man alive, something like “What, I gotta go stand in a ditch and hold hands with Baretta to effect social change? Doesn’t anyone VOTE anymore?”