Monday, February 19, 2007

American Trainwrecks

America loves a good train wreck and the past few weeks we've seen a perfect storm of train wrecks. Astronauts wearing diapers, the death of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney shaving her head...ridiculous stories that have found their way on the front page of major newspapers and the lead slot on local newscasts. It's embarassing that our nation is so fixated on these trivialities. Maybe we need a dose of these stories to keep ourselves from being completely overwhelmed by the bad news coming from Iraq, Sudan and other places around the world.

One last thing. Anna Nicole Smith was no Marilyn Monroe. She was a sleazy gold-digging pillpopping two-bit stripper who got lucky in finding a millionaire sugardaddy knocking on death's door. Nothing More. Let's move on America.