I'm all for giving the dead and their mourners their (and distance), but it's been piling up a little too thick over the last week.

Some of us don't feel like participating in the Great American whitewash. I know I don't. The way the networks are going off, fighting all over each other like cheap rent boys to kneel before big daddy, is getting nauseating. Thank the gods I'm not alone.

Lifted from the Terminal Weekly's "168 Hours"

>>Sunday:
Ronald Reagan, the most evil US president of the 20th century, dies after battling Alzheimer's for 10 years. At first, his administration was laughable: he declared kethcup as a vegetable to save money on school lunch programmes, he cut taxes expecting the economic boost to make up for the difference, and his Secretary of the Interior banned the Beach Boys from a Washington DC concert on the Mall because they were too hippie. But then things got weird: he supported the aparteid government of South Africa, he refused to act on the AIDS epidemic, possibly causing thousands to die, his Attorney General went to war on doctors providing abortions and the scourge of pornography in corner stores. Eventually, he funded death squads in El Salvador (in support of their government) and the Contras in Nicaragua (against their government), killing hundreds of thousands in the process, yet lying to his country by saying he was doing no such thing. In the end, he financed Iraq in their war against Iran but secretly planned to sell weapons to Iran to fund his secret Nicaraguan war. The graves of thousands rest easier this day. Between this and J. Lo's shotgun wedding, the tabloids and major TV networks have a reason to exist for another week.

Monday:
American TV networks give uninterrupted coverage to the death of Ronald Reagan, on of the United States; greatest statesmen.<<