News Flash: Tobacco Companies Lied

Alright, alright, calm down. I understand this is earth shattering news. The fact tobacco companies lied to consumers for decades about the health effects of their cancer sticks is going shake you in your booties.

Do I hear a chorus of "tell me something I don't know" from our readers? What can I say, it's a slow news day. At any rate a Judge has decreed it so it must be news.

What else is there to write about this morning? That JonBenet's supposed killer is really just a publicity seeker? That the cable news networks devoted most of their programming to that rather than the wiretapping case? That this must say something about the warped priorities of what passes for mainstream journalism these days? Nah, I'd never be that cynical. Not on a slow news Friday in Mid-August.