A Double Helping Of I Don't Care

Folks, you can't believe everything you read.

If there's one thing I've been trying to teach you (beyond I have too much time on my hands and that I'm an irascible misanthrope) it's to look beyond the big print - it's never true. Case in point, the useless jackathon called presidential primary coverage.

Unfortunately, I don't feel as, ah, convinced with that victory. Nothing like a three-way race and an up-for-grabs election to make things interesting right? Just look closer:

A nine percent margin of victory. That's all. And that's not counting nearly a third of the votes who didn't go with the number one or two favorite. I don't care what the subject is, but any vote where shy of 40% of the total votes is called decisive or convincing just isn't using the words correctly.

Now, the headlines for this next story is pretty clear, and there's no arguing. Brad Renfro, part-time actor / part-time addict died at 25.

Paramedics pronounced him dead at 9 a.m., and while the cause of death was not immediately determined, you can take a wild fucking guess. Shockingly, Renfro was reportedly drinking with friends the evening before his death.
Renfro's lawyer, Richard Kaplan, said he did not know whether the death was connected to any problems with addiction. "He was working hard on his sobriety," Kaplan said. "He was doing well. He was a nice person." Did this guy get his law degree in a cereal box? How did he become an attorney and yet be so utterly stupid? He was just a clean living 25 year old who woke up dead, right? What kind of God would take such a delightful young man who was clearly working hard on staying sober? Nice people shouldn't die, because that's mean.

While Renfro appeared with some of Hollywood's top actors, I'll always remember his 10 days in jail from a 2006 no contest plea to driving while intoxicated and attempted possession of heroin. That's not to discount his 1998 charge of cocaine and marijuana possession, year 2000 probation for attempting to steal a 45 foot yacht, or 2001 underage drinking probation violation.

Well, now you're all a little better informed about current events, and the time I spent planting these nuggets was far beyond my interest in thinking about them, but I'm obligated to disenfranchise the democratic process and mock the dead. You knew that...