Bad day for celebrities

[katluvr]

Maybe she can adopt one of MJ's kids. Angelina Jolie can have a 2nd of them.

What other celebrity collects underprivileged kids that can adopt the 3rd?

Not sure all will get a chuckly out of your comment...but I did.
Yes, it is sad they died.
Yes, it is sad it is such big news.
But it is, and here some of us are interested!

It is just want of those OMG moments...media stars that have been part of my life for most of my life.

[Cataboo]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I feel horrible for MJ's kids. and Farrah's... But I can't help mocking Madonna and Angelina Jolie a bit...



As for swine flu distracting people from the real issues... It's a real issue that the world is ripe for a flu epidemic and our current system of vaccines, etc. is too cumbersome to really respond to one... And that some of our farming practices are contributing to it.

[ASammy1]

My mom called to remind me of my 5th birthday party when they hired the Michael Jackson impersonator to "sing" at my party. Then we all watched the Thriller movie.

Great times...

[Irulan]

Well I'm not going to rip anyone apart, but I really don't care and I really do resent the front page of my morning paper taken over by all this.

and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

[Cataboo]

Well I'm not going to rip anyone apart, but I really don't care and I really do resent the front page of my morning paper taken over by all this.

and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

Odd... you seem to think that our media actually reports and practices investigative journalism.

reading a newspaper is an exercise in irritation for me, even when Michael Jackson is not on the front page. I tend to try to get my news at various places over the web to try to counteract that.

[Irulan]

Odd... you seem to think that our media actually reports and practices investigative journalism.

reading a newspaper is an exercise in irritation for me, even when Michael Jackson is not on the front page. I tend to try to get my news at various places over the web to try to counteract that.

Your sources must be interesting if they don't mention a rather significant 4th amendment rights Supreme Court case.

[Cataboo]

Oh, I'd read about that the day before and had half followed this whenever it first made the news last year or so? What I don't get is why the vice principal is not personally liable for the search.

[OakLeaf]

and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

except that was news from the day before. It got its run at the top of the headlines just because of the titillating subject. There have been more important stories hit the top since then, besides the celebrity deaths.

Brings us back to the other thread... people still say they read the "paper."

[Irulan]

except that was news from the day before. It got its run at the top of the headlines just because of the titillating subject. There have been more important stories hit the top since then, besides the celebrity deaths.

Brings us back to the other thread... people still say they read the "paper."

Well, it was on the front headline of the Wall Street Journal and my local paper this morning, not yesterday.

I read TWO papers every morning.

[Cataboo]

Excellent, it's sad how many print newspapers are going out of business. I used to read newspapers, but recycling them, the ads, etc got to be a pain, so now there's the internet which lets you hit multiple newspapers. Unfortunately a lot of them just repackage what comes out over the AP wire.

News comes out faster if you read off newspapers websites - it may have been I saw the headlines about the supreme court ruling yesterday morning, and it was about 7 or so last night that the headlines about Michael were all over the internet news sites.

[SadieKate]

You go, Irulan.

And why news can't be covered more than 1 day in a row is beyond me. Perhaps on the 2nd day there might be more information to offer?

I just about lost it last night when Keith O blabbered and speculated for at least 2 hours about Michael Jackson's death. Report the few facts that are known, break your normal coverage for new facts, and get back to world and national affairs (like Supreme Court rulings about strip searches of minors for unjust cause). If you want to pay homage, take 24 hours and put together a report that doesn't have the same stupid blathering talking heads and video footage re-circulating over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over ad nauseum.

[papaver]

I read TWO papers every morning.

So do I

[alpinerabbit]

As for swine flu distracting people from the real issues... It's a real issue that the world is ripe for a flu epidemic and our current system of vaccines, etc. is too cumbersome to really respond to one... And that some of our farming practices are contributing to it.

yeah yeah. Except that it's hardly more dangerous than other strains and that it did not come from pigs. I still don't buy it.

and the Supreme Court ruling on the middle schooler who was strip searched for tylenol in her panties only got about 3 square inches

Well that was probably worth investigating. What was she doing with Tylenol in her panties??!!

[Cataboo]

I think it was ibuprofen and it's fairly common that new flus originate in pigs... Pigs can catch human flus and avian flus. humans can normally not catch avian flus, but can catch pig flus. Flu genome is divided into 8 different cassettes that are loaded into the viral capsule... if a cell is infected with multiple flus, you get various different combinations of those cassettes into the capsule... thus making pigs fairly important as an incubator of new strains which possibly combine human & avian genes. And one of the reasons that asia is so important for flus... one of those places in the world where pigs, chickens, and humans still live in close quarters.

But yeah, this flu was fairly harmless. However, no matter how harmless it is... they haven't managed to control it, they don't have a vaccine, blah blah blah... so when the next non-harmless one comes along, hopefully they've learned a bit from this.

[Zen]

But yeah, this flu was fairly harmless. However, no matter how harmless it is... they haven't managed to control it, they don't have a vaccine, blah blah blah... so when the next non-harmless one comes along, hopefully they've learned a bit from this.

If this flu is anything like the Spanish influenza virus of 1918 (and I do believe that's the current thinking) it will reemerge in a more virulent form this fall.
But you have to read science news to know that. The general public doesn't go beyond the home page on their computer.