Henley was right

With the 24-hour news cycles becoming increasingly fixated on extended and gratuitous deathwatches of individual persons, extending their "fifteen minutes" of fame to meaningless interminability, Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" is stuck in my ears - "it's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry."

Our entire culture is the victim of an eternal, nightmarish April Fool's joke.