Or to put it another way, I cried like a baby when Joe Strummer died, or when Linda Smith died, but I wouldn’t have bumped Kate off the Today show so we could all hear about it ad nauseam. And just because they affected me personally (by being made of sheer brilliance, obv) I don’t necessarily think everyone else has to be equally affected.

Death deserves to be marked and mourned, but it doesn’t mean that everyone has to go all out because they’ve heard of the dead person. And, actually, Heath and Joe and Linda weren’t any more important than anyone else who died on those particular days. Hence the ‘some dead white guy’, I assume.

There’s an ad running for the “weight management center” of a local hospital (which I have been wanting to rant about since I saw it) that features a woman saying how unhealthy and sad she was when she was fat and she “wanted a permanent solution, and [she] knew weight loss surgery would be a PERMANENT solution.” Then a doctor comes on and talks about how great WLS is. There isn’t even a little “results not typical” note at the bottom of the screen. I mean, let alone mentioning all the complications and dangers of it, they aren’t honest that you can run that gauntlet of risks and end up right back where you started weight-wise. I suppose they’ll get out of the liability by claiming she’s a layperson and not a doctor? It just makes me sad that the tide in advertising seems to be shifting to “diets don’t work – but WLS does!”

Health Ledger’s death is a tragedy and I feel for his family and friends, and the fans to whom he meant a lot. (Heaven knows it would have helped me to have more coverage when Robert Anton Wilson died, since he’d had such an impact on my life). I just wish they could have figured out a way to do both, or rescheduled her. if one person gets WLS or takes drugs or becomes suicidal and dies because he or she didn’t see Kate’s segment and subscribe to FA, that person’s death sure isn’t going to get reported on the Today Show. (Not to be all doomsday THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD IS ON YOU, but God knows FA is saving my life a little every day.)

Also, Fred Phelps can seriously blow a goat. A gay goat.

Now there’s some people you can equate with Hitler.

Oh… my… there are no words for this kind of… Ugh. Thanks for making this point.

Fillyjonk’s original post and Heath = bitterly disappointed stressed-out oranges

Why are we even comparing? Oh right, because the original post got twice edited and people are being left to look hyper-sensitive and hysterical because their responses are still up and completely out of context.

Not fair.

“Look, the juice expired the same day as grandpa!”

I still miss the hell out of him.