Even with all this important stuff going on ...

... this is still news:

Scary new drug favored by teens: 'Smiles'

After two teens die within 24 hours, experts are warning about the powerful hallucinogenic. Its frightening effects  

Player tosses away debris, then it explodes

As the soccer field is being cleared following an outburst by fans, a scary moment unfolds. Watch the close call  

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Britney Spears's on-air freak out

The singer panics when a thunder storm interrupts auditions on the "X Factor." Her profanity-laced tirade  

So that is what is important. Drugs, violence, and celebrity nonsense.

Etiquette expert opinion on a celebrity wedding

There are etiquette experts?

And they have opinions about celebrity weddings?

Even though they don't matter. At all.

Not in the big scheme of things anyway.

This is all distraction. But media outlets like PEOPLE are there to give it to us.

So that we can NOT get informed about important issues that actually impact us. And I'm starting to think policy-makers count on this so that they can continue to make policies that do not serve us.

Who is this woman anyway? Seriously, what has she ever done to justify caring about her wedding, her divorce, or the wedding gifts that she may or may not return?

I don't care. :-)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20541930,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

Now these books make even more sense:

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

http://www.amazon.com/Idiot-America-Stupidity-Became-Virtue/dp/0767926145

Oooh, a celebrity was arrested!

And there are pictures!

Which is why it is national news.

So instead of a serious discussion of DUI, why people do it, how much it happens, how many get injured or killed from it, and what we can do to stop it, we get this kind of report.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/88568/christina-aguilera-out-train-wrecks-britney-spears-by-getting-arrested/