The Living Rockumentary

Tony, it's not ok to publically laugh at people who tragically died a few hours earlier. It is, however, perfectly acceptable to laugh at the people who do.

You know how Woody Allen said "comedy is tragedy plus time." I guess the DJ didn't wait long enough. At least there is a glimmer of hope in the fact that his trained laughers caught on to what they were doing and stopped. A glimmer.

To answer your question about who listens to those shows every morning, I'd have to say America does, because everybody is so angry that they are even in their cars going to work in the first place. They need to listen to someone else blame it all on other people. So much comes back to the carrot that TV dangles in front of everybody's face. Nobody commutes on TV.

I saw Thirteen Conversations About One Thing the other night. I liked it. It's depressing but also hopeful. One character in it says that life only makes sense when you look at it backwards but we have to live it forwards, or something like that. DJs like that guy you were talking about have the very simple job of looking at things after they happened and then pointing out the dumb mistakes that lead to them. It's easy to be smug when you are commenting on the past.