John Lennon is no excuse for being a jerk

Fathers of 5 year old boys and house-trainers of young puppies realize that they do not get the message the first time. Nor the twentieth. It is not a labor for the impatient. I am, once in a while, patient. [There will be language that some people find offensive after the jump so don’t complain if you click through]

Sure He Might've Been the Greatest Surgeon Ever….But Look at This Other Guy's Great Hair! ..and Teeth!

Pioneering cardiac and vascular surgeon Michael E. DeBakey passed away last week. He was an absolute lion of surgical innovation. And it wasn’t as though he didn’t have a little prime-time lustre himself.

DeBakey, physician to such notables as the Duke of Windsor, the Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jordan and Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, had a long and distinguished career as a medical pioneer and a public policy statesman. This year he was awarded one of the nation’s highest civic honors, the Congressional Gold Medal.

Still, the always insightful media-watcher (and Sb SuperReader) Anonymoustache noticed something a little bit odd:

There were two deaths that got some significant coverage in the news today.
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There was a trend to this coverage, of course. Virtually every news outlet gave big-time splashy front page status to one of these two people. The other received also-ran status from some outlets while he was completely omitted from the front pages of the rest.

What is wrong with this world? Guess who the also-ran was? Go read, but make sure you are in a place you can scream at the computer for a few minutes.