Heath Ledger dead wtf O_O;

[Lexa]

Eh, people will jump on any opportunity to make cash. It's honestly stopped surprising me at this point. When money enters the picture, everyone goes nuts.

Right after Heath Ledger died, some Best Buy (I forgot where) had put up a little sign that said, "Remember the legend" or some crap like that, and underneath it put all his movies out for sale. This was before a lot of people even knew he'd passed away. Was a decision by the store manager, not Best Buy themselves, btw. Really classy.

Another radio host of some sort made "dead Heath Ledger" jokes all throughout his show. People are asshats, always have been always will be. *shrug*

Also, the police released more details about what happened when he was found:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/ ... 0&emc=eta1

[Xavier]

"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmelss fun; but the culture itself. for the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
- Carl Bernstein

Idiocracy. You can say what you want about the quality of the movie, but its a fairly insightful look at the dumbing down of society.

[Groovebox]

He just got cast to play the lead role in the new Weekend at Bernie's film.

[Ryko]

He just got cast to play the lead role in the new Weekend at Bernie's film.

Oh god that got me more than it should've

[Titanss]

He just got cast to play the lead role in the new Weekend at Bernie's film.

omg man that was rough.

[Xiona]

"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmelss fun; but the culture itself. for the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
- Carl Bernstein

Idiocracy. You can say what you want about the quality of the movie, but its a fairly insightful look at the dumbing down of society.

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[evilbau]

"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmelss fun; but the culture itself. for the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."
- Carl Bernstein

Idiocracy. You can say what you want about the quality of the movie, but its a fairly insightful look at the dumbing down of society.

I've seen it before, its funny and I think the point of that movie is great. I prefer to quote Bernstein though because he said it first (1992) and the guy who helped take down Nixon gets more credibility to me than Mike Judge

edit: heres another:

“The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
- Carl Bernstein