Not the murder but the Ick is the real story, here.

Corpse found in L.A. hotel's water tank

The first sentences of the story at CNN.

Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank water from a tank in which a young woman's body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks, police said.

Elisa Lam's corpse was found in the Cecil Hotel's rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low Tuesday.

Lam's parents reported her missing in early February. The last sighting of her was in the hotel on January 31, Los Angeles Police said.

Detectives are now investigating the 21-year-old Canadian's suspicious death, police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said.

It was not clear whether the water presented any health risks to those who consumed it. Results on tests on the water done Wednesday by the Los Angeles Public Health Department were expected later in the day.

CNN, with the professionalism and proper sense of news values one should expect of a world class network devoted above all to first-rate news coverage, goes on to quote guests about the water’s odd smell and suspicious flavor, and to complain hotel management would not comment for them.

Poster boy for gun ownership?

Pistorius bail hearing in chaos as detective faces attempted murder charges

I see this one going about the way the OJ trial did.

The press will join the defense in making a big deal of their jibes and mockery of the cops and the court, itself.

News as "reality TV."

This one will be something like "OJ meets Judge Judy."

Why did he have a gun in the room?

Who cares if one of the witnesses who heard shots was a thousand feet away?

In case you don’t know, guns are really, really loud.

This is only a bail hearing and nobody should expect the prosecution to already have its case completely honed, with all their ducks in a neat row.

There is no question he killed her and the only issues for a court to decide are whether it was murder and if so was it premeditated.

Bail?

You’re kidding, right?

A very bad year for the cause of peace, then

Hillary Clinton Would "Clear The Field" In 2016

Equally good on domestic matters, probably, Hillary would be a less lesser evil than Obama in foreign affairs, being almost as chummy with the Likud and the American Likudniks of neoconservatism as Joe Lieberman and John McCain.

She who threatened Iran with nuclear obliteration in the event it harmed one fair hair on the head of beloved Israel.

The Democrats and the feminists will go absolutely batty with "It's about time" and "Year of the Woman" stuff. 

And if she wins they will love her for using American power and money to push the global feminist agenda.

They’ll milk this for as long as they can

Mississippi makes progress

The process of ratification, both belated and unnecessary, of the 13^th Amendment.

KOS writers will be giggling and mocking about the South, whites, and race politics for as long as they can convince anyone this is a good occasion, and quite a bit longer.

Those are “higher cultures”?

The Dawn, aphorism 204, Danäe and god in gold

Peru? Mexico?

Benign corporatocracy?

Continuum

Some might call it neoliberalism gone wild.

Abusing words as they normally do, liberals would surely call it fascism.

In the first three episodes there is no “moral dilemma” at all, despite the text of the Wikipedia article.

The terrorists are wholly unscrupulous, stock TV villains and the future cop (Protector) is unquestionably the heroine of the piece, with the Vancouver cops working with her all clearly good guys though totally in the dark about what’s really going on.

Perhaps in later episodes the “moral dilemma” will arise.

So far, no worries.

Liberal snark

Cheers and Jeers Round 2

Mississippi finally ratifies amendment banning slavery

Neverending racial complaint.

KOS: A racist attack on white people for not being poor enough

Media Carnival

If you’re white, aren’t you ashamed?

If you’re not white, don’t you hate those awful white people!

All in a day’s work for the liberals at KOS.

Good thing her kids were in foster care

Troubled country music star Mindy McCready, 37, who had affair with ex-Yankee Roger Clemens, kills her dog and then commits suicide

Empirical egoism

Normal human life is not lived for others.

With others, yes, of course.

We are social animals, we humans - an inheritance, along with so much else, from our simian ancestry.

Few among us prefer to live apart, and the costs are high.

But in any case we do not live for others.

To use one for the sake of others, or to insist that one sacrifice for others, is taking advantage, sometimes very cruelly and often selfishly, as when you and others push someone else into some sort of sacrifice for you all.

"Greater love hath no man," eh? "Dulce et decorum est."

Often, in fact, we use others unto death.

Nothing the least unusual about it.

In nearly all cases, those chosen by us or by circumstance to be sacrificed do resist.

But not always.

We bully people into such things, or excuse our use of raw coercion, with talk of morals and the gods.

Sometimes people volunteer, too.

One thinks of the pig that wants to be eaten, that was bred to want to be eaten, a creation of Douglas Adams.

The political and religious relevance of these remarks is obvious.