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Every news outlet is running with the Anna Nicole Smith (or, as MSNBC calls her, "America's Rose," which is an affront to both this country and all of botany) autopsy results, which shouldn't be any surprise to anyone with a brain stem. Can we please move on to the next vacuous distraction from relevance? (The Onion, bless their collective heart, nails it again: Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight.)
Ruben Navarrette Jr. tries to clarify his last column. Sadly, he's not even that good of a writer (or reader, apparently): the beginning of his last paragraph ("The point of my earlier commentary is that...") is a pretty solid indicator of his need to clarify a point that should be evident, that he's tasked with making evident. Worse, he's now writing about himself and about his columns, and that's the fingerprint of a self-absorbed columnist (also see Simmons, Bill), and hey, maybe someone else finds that interesting. Not me. From where I sit, it's just lazy and arrogant, and I get enough of that in my media already.
Ruben Navarrette Jr. tries to clarify his last column. Sadly, he's not even that good of a writer (or reader, apparently): the beginning of his last paragraph ("The point of my earlier commentary is that...") is a pretty solid indicator of his need to clarify a point that should be evident, that he's tasked with making evident. Worse, he's now writing about himself and about his columns, and that's the fingerprint of a self-absorbed columnist (also see Simmons, Bill), and hey, maybe someone else finds that interesting. Not me. From where I sit, it's just lazy and arrogant, and I get enough of that in my media already.
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