25 July 2011  List of events of which I have no comment  And am
thus thoroughly annoyed take up valuable news time 1) Amy
Winehouse death. I barely knew who this person was. I don't even
need facebook posts about her, much less news stories. Thanks.
Comparisons to Hendrix or Cobain et al seem really premature and
overdone (and totally unsurprising, drug addicts often die
"early", so to speak. This should be news to no one.) 2) News of
the World/Rupert Murdoch scandal. This is journalists covering
other journalists for doing things that journalists (sadly) do
and thus is a masturbatory tale rather than important news.  I
have no sympathy for Rupert and in particular his association
with Faux. But unlike most of liberal societies, my criticism is
of the PEOPLE who support by watching, not so much Faux itself,
which is merely providing the service of telling such people
what they want to hear (little different than their preachers or
priests often do in a modern society with fluid religious
associations). I see