The State of the Union is such a joke. What can't those assholes just stay in their seats for an hour so we can get that douche off the TV screen and return to our regularly scheduled programming. We've been hearing about hope and freedom and liberty and democracy in Iraq for 5 years now. I think we should just ban those four words from the English language. They simply no longer have any meaning.

I understand the coverage of Heath Ledger's death. He was young, he was famous and people liked him. The media should cover the death, the cause, the aftermath and all that. But the scene outside his apartment on the day he died was just disgusting. Every news station was hanging out there as if something magical was about to pop out of the door. What they got instead, and what they wanted, was the live footage of Ledger's body being wheeled out of the apartment. Is that really what people wanted to see? Even if it was, how is it possible that there's no one heading up these TV stations that thinks for a second, "Hmm, this guy just died 3 hours ago. Let's show a little respect and back off from the scene." Sometimes it scares me thinking this is the kind of business I want to spend my life in.