Even though she’s on her way to prison for a couple decades or so, I must give a tip o’ the hat to Lori Drew. This is the American mother who managed to drive a teenage girl to suicide through good old-fashioned MySpace deception.

This week, Lori was indicted on criminal charges of conspiracy and so forth. But before you all join in with your condemnation of Lori, I say to you: Are there any among us who have not terrorized our enemies via MySpace? That’s what I feckin’ thought.

I’ll be the first to admit it. Occasionally the edge (no I do not capitalize) will have the balls to give me attitude, saying that “my fake piousness makes his soul hurt” or some such rubbish. It’s times like these that I use MySpace to recover the dynamics of the band.

After spewing aforementioned blasphemy, the edge will soon get a new friend request. “Jaysus - looky here lads,” he’ll say, “this pretty lil’ loosebit wants to get horsed in by The Edge, yea?”  Yea, except the loosebit is actually Bono! Once I’ve gotten the edge all horned up with emails that do not make me gay for writing, I’ll knock him back on his arse with a last message that I was really only writing because I heard he could introduce me to John Mayer.

Try as I might, I haven’t driven the edge to suicide yet. So that’s why I say tip o’ the hat to you, Lori.