Oh, the wide world mourns the pope, mercifully prying the media spotlight away from the other meaningless horseshit (Schiavo, Jackson) that's planted to distract us from what's really going on (raising forever and again the question: Do they show us what we want to see? Or do they think we care about what they're showing us?) And as we sit in our smoky den digesting the last of our cheap whiskey and failing to give a shit, tragedy strikes; another of the Greats is gone. Saul Bellow is dead at 89. more ›

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