Electric Josh

Deeeeath!! Frank Rich is completely brutal, and dead on, about the pope and the television and such:

Between Terri Schiavo and the pope, we've feasted on decomposing bodies for almost a solid month now. The carefully edited, three-year-old video loops of Ms. Schiavo may have been worthless as medical evidence but as necro-porn their ubiquity rivaled that of TV's top entertainment franchise, the all-forensics-all-the-time "CSI." To help us visualize the dying John Paul, another Fox star, Geraldo Rivera, brought on Dr. Michael Baden, the go-to cadaver expert from the JonBenet Ramsey, Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson mediathons, to contrast His Holiness's cortex with Ms. Schiavo's.

Took the kid to see the otter and birds of prey at the Trailside Museum today, which is great except that she can't pronounce the soft t sound in the middle of otter nor the r at the end, making it almost impossible to tell what she's saying when she starts talking about it.
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