Breaking news: Jessica Simpson farts!

I’m not up for writing a long treatise tonight, but if I were, this is what it would be about: if mainstream media invested the same amount of time, energy, money and investigation into the build up to the Iraq War in 2002 and early 2003 as they have given to the marriage and breakup of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, then there might a few thousand Americans and a few hundred thousand Iraqis still alive today.