This is news?

Okay, for those who have been paying attention...and I may or may not be among those...the writing on here has increasingly paid attention to "news" that one might question is actually news. I seem to spend more time discussing people killing each other for, shall we say, questionable reasons...refusal to make a sandwich, bringing a warm beer, how tall James Brown was are three relevant examples...and other miscellaneous "news" items.

In doing so I am both trying for cheap laughs and also sort of making a point...people are interested in stupid things. And there we have another Paris Hilton reference. Sorry about that, they just keep slipping in.

But seriously...even I have stooped so low as to comment on the bubble headed blind's passing when OJ broke loose his incredible "slow sperm" blast. Why is Anna Nicole Smith considered "news"? The only impact she had on the world was stock prices for pharmaceutical companies one would think.

But I have found something that made even the "news" stories about where to bury a bimbo seem relevant, meaningful and worthy of being everywhere it has been.

Yes, now we have a story about them deciding where to bury Barbaro.

You read that write. Someone researched and wrote a story about the "tragic" (read ludicrous) heartache a family is going through in trying to decide where to bury a dead horse. A horse who, in a time of war when hundreds of people are being buried without fanfare, there names in the paper, or discussion of any sort, won a stupid horse race. Why is this news? Have we sunk so low?

But in an effort to help the family out and put this brave, wonderful, important horse to rest (previous statement may contain lies. Look in the adjectives, you might be able, with a discerning eye and a modicum of intelligence, to spot them), I have come up with a solution.

Glue factory. That way he will stick in our memories forever.