Priorites...

I'm mystified as to why there is such attention being paid to Heath Ledger dying. I know that sounds cruel, but come on...he wasn't that damn great. I remember when Princess Di was killed. The world stopped. Her death, by the way, sparked the insipid "makeshift memorial" that seems to present itself every time there's a death. But back to the original rant...just one week after DiDi and Dodi died died, Mother Teresa died.

This was a woman who went on to become a saint, yet her death was overshadowed by the media frenzy covering Di. So, a selfless woman who had committed her life to God and helping the helpless dies in wake of a globetrotting hottie being killed in a wreck and the hottie is deified. It didn't matter that Di had been unfaithful, bulimic, alcoholic, a pill abuser and frankly, a shitty mother. She "worked tirelessly" to help AIDS victims (yawn) and auctioned off gowns. I don't recall ever seeing her surrounded by the filth and squalor and poverty of the poorest children in India. Di was too busy hanging out with everyone's favorite faggot, Elton John. Oddly enough, aside from a very small minority of victims, AIDS is pretty much self-induced: dirty needles, unprotected sex, multiple partners. The poor people living in the streets in New Delhi didn't put themselves in that position by being narcissistic hedonists. Yet the AIDS victims are the ones that the world worries about.

Let's get our priorities straight: not one of the soldiers who's died in Iraq has gotten a fraction of the attention or the outpouring of emotion and sympathy that Ledger has gotten. What the hell is our society coming to?