What Good? No Good at All.

thanks Gerard. Impressive.

Posted by sered at March 29, 2005 1:08 PM

Dragged into the mire kicking and screaming.. I haven't watched TV for a week so repulsed have I been with the events of the Schiavo case. Add to that Michael Jackson's daily review. I only watch Fox but quit when they gave Mrs. Schiavo her own theme song. Now I hear Jesse Jackson is scum-diving into it all. Repulsed? There has to be a better word to describe such repugnant fare.

Posted by Amy at March 29, 2005 1:47 PM

I lost myself. What I think upsets me the most about everything is the complete disregard for dignity. Has the very notion of dignity disappeared from our planet?

I just can't stand it.

Posted by Amy at March 29, 2005 2:01 PM

Alas, the only dignity that seems to still exist is "death with dignity" and that is no dignity at all.

Posted by Tom Spence at March 29, 2005 2:12 PM

My thanks for helping me to aim my sense of disgust here. Your lucid, empassioned account of the issues involved is helpful to those of us struggling to keep up, to sort through the many conflicting statements of the players, the onlookers, the politicians and the just luridly curious.

Posted by Everyman at March 29, 2005 2:33 PM

Masterful. If blogger would ever let me, I'll link to it.

Posted by TheAnchoress at March 29, 2005 2:34 PM

A viewing of Ace in the Hole is instructive in these times.

Also ...Carneval?

When the right reverend bozo showed up ... I tuned out. I can't take it anymore.

Posted by Steel Turman at March 29, 2005 3:40 PM

A hellish grotesquery indeed, and crowned by the addition of Jesse Jackson. What a crazy cartwheel ride to who knows where.

Posted by pbird at March 29, 2005 4:07 PM

Now that the 24-hour news cycle reigns supreme, no detail is too lurid nor too intimate for full and repetitive airing. Enough is definitely more than enough.

The only consolation is that the relentless focus on this tragic story and the Michael Jackson trial is an indication that events in the Middle East must be going rather well right now. If only we could have another summer of the sharks, what a good sign that would be!

Posted by neo-neocon at March 29, 2005 7:42 PM

"It does no good at all."

What else can be said?

If anyone, anywhere, ever needed a primer on the fallibility of man, we've got a great edition for the college- level course right in front of us.

I feel soiled.

Posted by TmjUtah at March 29, 2005 8:34 PM

"Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness." --Whittaker Chambers

Posted by Dennis at March 29, 2005 8:56 PM

Let's see if this will fly again:

We can now have had --

Breakfast at Bernie's, cocktails at Hunter's, and (wait for it) Dim Sum with Terri.

Naw, doesn't quite get it, does it? There is a perfect punchline somewhere for Terri in that formula, but I can't find it. Something which would cast the affair in the proper ghoulish light of the way the media feasts on these things and turns them absurd and bizarre if you only follow it throught the media's eyes.

The media is a kind of walking talking self-parody now. It isn't even funny to illustrate it, anymore since the entire notion of common decency appears to have vanished from our overall culture.

Posted by mark butterworth at March 29, 2005 11:33 PM

Looks like neo-neocon may get her wish. Headline on Fox this a.m.:

Swarming Sharks Close Florida Beaches
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Associated Press

Let's hope . . .

Best,
Rick

Posted by ricksamerican at March 30, 2005 7:02 AM

Amen. It seems Don Henley is a freakin' sage/prophet:

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down

Posted by Dan N. at March 30, 2005 7:45 AM

Good catch... upgraded to an item on the main page.

Posted by Gerard Van Der Leun at March 30, 2005 9:41 AM

Flannery O'Connor country...Amen

Posted by K.T. at March 31, 2005 8:22 PM

Hi Gerard, You took me on my first date in San Jose California. We went to Sausalito to have hamburgers on a boat restaurant called Juanita's.

You've done well, very impressive!

Geri Carbone

Posted by Geri Carbone at August 11, 2005 2:47 PM