Dear California, I Am A Heartless Bitch  Dear folks, I have
spent a lot of time in San Diego and am pretty familiar not only
with its economic and ethnic and political diversity, but with
many of its residents, to whom I must now apologize for saying
something so insensitive at a time of such urgency and horror.
Look, I hate tragedy and destruction too. When I wrote that I
didn't feel bad about the fires engulfing "the Hills" right now
I was trying to make a point about how the presence of Heidi and
Spencer and Britney and the Terminator and assorted other
tabliverse regulars had inured me to the tragedy in much the way
the presence of impoverished black people inured a lot of people
to the tragedy of Katrina. In part, I blame watching The
O'Reilly Factor last night.  You should have seen it; he had a
body language expert analyze whether Ellen Degeneres was
"faking" her on-screen breakdown and assorted other treasures.
Anyway so my insensitivity was sort of preemptive to the
insensitivity I anticipated from h