His 15 minutes are nearly up. Androgynous minor pop star George Michael has created a modest stir with the video for the title song from his new CD. His newly discovered political thought (singular) leads him to make fun of George Bush and Tony Blair; and depicts him dressed in a leopard-print thong, apparently trying to seduce Cherie Blair. For someone who was arrested a few years back trying to pick up guys in a park washroom, that truly is shocking. Well, if you can't do music, try shock value.

Somehow I have the feeling that George is destined to shortly be playing the Flying Fishstick Lounge circuit in 3rd rate hotels.