I'm going to quote something I said to someone else on this topic this morning.
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In fariness, friends and family can say 'You need to get help' over and over again, but if the addict ignores them...
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An addict dying doesn't necessarily mean that their family or friends didn't truly love them and offer their help, it means that the addict was unable to pull themselves away from the poison that was slowly killing them.

When someone is begging people to watch their network rather than telling them about all the fascinating shows on their network, there is a problem.

In fariness, friends and family can say 'You need to get help' over and over again, but if the addict ignores them...

Kennedy had his virtues, but he was a known philanderer and as I've observed before, the Myth of Camelot exists more in the minds of the media than anywhere else. In the past decade, Kennedys have failed to get elected in states as liberal as Maryland and New York.

Also, when seeking to highlight media hypocrisy, I think it makes more sense to compare people in the same era (compare the dissimilar treatments of Edwards and Cain).

No matter what one's political sympathies, that segment was absolutely devoid of humor.

Jennifer Hudson is a great choice. She's not Houston's equal in raw talent, but she has a lovely voice and the way she comports herself in public is similar to the way Whitney acted before she started using drugs.

Sounds a lot like Bill Maher calling for Obama to be more gangster.

This is a terrible shame but not a surprise. Mrs. Houston has been struggling with (and for a long time just plain submitting to) drugs for so long I figured they'd eventually 'win'.

God rest her soul.

300-400 is a pretty small number given how liberal DC (and Maryland and North Virginia) is. Hopefully police will disperse them and make sure the violent ones spend a day or 30 in jail to rethink their lives.

When I was a kid I loved Star Wars so much I read the book based on the movie and it plainly stated Han shot first.