I hate to add another Anna Nicole thread, but I'm going to anyway [View All]

[belladonna]

I was too busy yesterday to even think about logging on to DU and I'm almost glad of it now. Some of the threads I've come across today just blew my fucking mind and NOT in a good way. I'm certainly not a huge Anna Nicole fan, but I've always felt vaguely sorry for her. Yeah, she was an adult and perhaps she could have handled certain aspects of her life differently. No, she wasn't a paragon of virtue and made mistakes and might have even made it easier for some of the slime out there to take advantage of her.

But for all those I've seen on DU pissing on her grave, just answer one question for me. Name one mean-spirited thing she ever did. Marry an older man for his money? Then why did she wait so long to marry him? Why did she wait until she was successful, or at least a success in her eyes, before marrying him? From all accounts, he wanted her to marry him right away and she insisted on waiting. What else is there, other than the fact that she was not, by her own admission, a freaking rocket scientist?

As for her pushing real news off the front page, give me a fucking break. Like the fucking newschannels were all set to do an in depth report on what a fucked up quagmire Iraq is and, just because of Anna Nicole dying, it all had to be put on hold. THEY WEREN'T GOING TO REPORT ANYTHING BUT THE SAME OLD CRAP ANYWAY!! C-Span isn't reporting on her death. Turn to C-Span and watch the Senate run around in endless circles about whether they're going to debate on Iraq if you can't stand watching anything but news about politics, okay?

Jeebus, what is so HARD about being nice? I know we're all suffering battle fatigue after the crap the Boy King has put us through, but I'm not going to lose any shred of humanity I have and stop caring about everything else and neither should you. If you don't care, use hide thread and save the vitriol for a punching bag or go out and do something constructive with your anger. Fact is, a child is left without a mother and a woman who was 39 YEARS OLD is dead for no good reason. That IS a tragedy. Period.