mocking in their face

Someone on CNN has an appropriate sense of perspective, at least:

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead, Wolf?
BLITZER: Yes, we're going to -- updating our viewers coming up shortly on...
CAFFERTY: I can't wait for that.
BLITZER: ... the mysterious circumstances surrounding that, Jack. Thank you.

[update: ThinkProgress has the video, and yes, it's delivered with the snarkiness you'd imagine from the above transcript]

This bullshit non-story is still on the front page of the Age [update: website, not paper, at least - although it's the full front page of the Hun], and is in the list of "top stories" on the ABC News website. Aargh.

[update:
John Rogers delivers the best response to CNN:
... if you compare Anna Nicole Smith to Marilyn Monroe unironically one more time, the shambling corpses of JFK and Bobby will claw their ways from their graves and cut a fearsome brain-eating swath of undead terror through the terrified populace until they reach your studios in Atlanta and summon down a Cthulhoid hell upon you.]

shit and damn

Ian Richardson has died.



Sad now. "House of Cards" is up there with "Edge of Darkness" as some of the finest television ever produced. His portrayal of Francis Urquhart still gives me chills - especially in the final scene. The sheer likeability of his evil is just horrifying.

If you're one of those silly people who have still never seen it - go find a copy at the video library. Now.