Proof our country is totally screwed.

[alfredo]

From CNN.



Grief and humiliation winning hands down. Oh wait, low numbers means it's losing.

[Idealism]

1. To be honest, those choices suck

No Poking disappointed Republican voters with sticks? wtf didn't we just win an election?

[alfredo]

4. Ha!

[Forkboy]

2. I thought this thread would be about a cardboard cutout.

x(

[alfredo]

8. Sorry to disappoint you. I know you will find a way to carry on. We're

all pulling for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy3CeI0FCY

[gravity]

3. I don't blame them

Who really enjoys reading the weddings and engagements section?

[alfredo]

6. Political Cartoonist Joel Pett does. He looks for funny name combinations.

http://www.madblast.com/funny/8738_naughty-engagement-announcements.html Look for a big pop up window with this site.

[MrModerate]

5. I'm happy, happy, happy when anyone finds their true love . . .

And commits to making a life together.

But do I want to read about their wedding plans? I'd rather flog myself with an electric cord.

Whereas obituaries might be about someone I know . . . as could the mug shots.

[alfredo]

7. Oh, I outlived that bastard. Oh look, my rival got busted for kiddie porn.

[MrModerate]

9. Precisely. nt

[alfredo]

10. I'm not old, but many of my dearest friends have died young.

I'm just happy I've escaped their fate, so far. I'd rather read the comics.

[zehnkatzen]

11. Naw, there's nothing new about this ...

People have been obsessing over the obits since before there was an intermet. I know of several.

Actually looking at the obits can be cheering if you live in an area where people die north of 80 like they tend to do around here (Portland Oregon). A lot of long, full lives in the Pacific Northwest.

And mug shots? Hell, even I've watched COPS since it came on the air. Crime sells. Raymond Chandler dreamt up the seamy underbelly of Southern California and we still eat it up, years after he died.

The only thing we have about modern times is that we have polls to tote up the opinion and the intermets to spread it all over hell and gone.

[alfredo]

17. I live in Ky and we die young. The obits are poison to us.

[rvablue]

12. The obit columns win out because young people don't buy newspapers

and older people are curious and interested.

It's Newspaper Journalism Rule #1, always has been.

[On the Road]

13. We Will Know the Country is Totally Screwed

when everyone is obsessed with the price of dry beans and sources of clean water.

[alfredo]

16. You price beans lately? You should smell our water.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Everyone who's ever spent any time in the internets tubes knows it's cat pictures and porn. n/t

[alfredo]

15. Kitty Porn? You are a naughty child.