Enough, already!

OK, I have to say something about the shit we keep hearing about. It's got to stop... STOP already. Why do the news outlets all get on one freaking idea and pound the living hell out of it. Here are some things we've heard anough about:

1. Lady Bird Johnson. This woman hasn't been seen or heard from in more than 20 years. It's possible that some Texan dowagers spent some time around a tea table with her, blotting their lipstick and tsk, tsking the world of conservative Texas politics, but nothing has been heard from her outside of the Kiwanas Club of greater Houston. It should stay that way. I'm sure she was a fine lady. She became a public figure by dint of her marriage to a questionable Texas politician, who accidentally became president. He died a couple of years after being voted out of office (in favor of Richard Nixon... uggh).
   
   Please just let her go. Retroactive reassessments of bad politicians in the past is not becoming, and should not be appropriate, no matter which party is in power. The Republicans tried to somehow deify Nixon when he died, when it was clear to anyone with half a brain he was a crook, a fraud, and a power addict, who was prepared to break any law to maintain his standing and that of his cronies. LBJ was more or less the same, and his family was richer. I am pretty sure Lady Bird passed away surrounded by her grasping-- I mean loving and doting-- family members in her huge home. An old lady dies-- a widow for 30 years of a man who sent at least 25,000 young Americans to their deaths defending Freedom and Democracy against the ravages of Communism in that last bastion and holdout of those values, Vietnam, because he couldn't come up with a vision that would allow him to say NO. It wasn't glorious it was a waste. Yay. Let her go.
   
   
2. Osama Bin Laden. What if the next time he's heard from no one pays attention. Don't even tell me about him. He's a first class dork, is likely insane, thinks way too highly of himself, and if he ever comes closer than 1200 miles from the closest electricity and indoor plumbing he's sure to be blasted to smithereens along with his family, his henchmen, and his concubine camels. The only possible reason to cover anything he says in the news, even in an undated video released anonymously on the internet, is to keep Americans on edge. The guy blew his wad on 9/11, as well as his apparently effective crew of thugs. Bummer. Someone who can do something that big could probably have accomplished something good for his people. He didn't. As long as he lives in a hole in the dirt, he's free to go about his business. He and his family will live the rest of their lives in their own "ground zero." He's now an ant. He should be forgotten.
   
   
3. Harry Potter. Shut up already, and stop covering this marketing bullshit. The movie's not out yet. The book isn't out yet. There's nothing that can be said about them that isn't just carnival barking. It's not news, it's reading the catalog out loud.

New isn't news anymore-- it's political posturing, and it's security organizations legitimizing their existence, and it's marketing. Come on journalists! Your's used to be an honorable calling.