Guilty of TMI in the 1st Degree

It's official: at 1 p.m. PST (3 p.m. in God's country) a jury of twelve peers, including two reserves who came in off the bench as the deliberations went into overtime, has concluded that America is now free to obsess about something else besides Scott and Laci Peterson. We could of sworn we heard church bells pealing across the fruited plain.

Incidentally, they declared Scott guilty. Is anyone surprised? (Well, after the O.J. fiasco a decade ago, you can never really know for sure.)

Does the verdict change any one aspect of your life? Will time alter its course? Will you feel better about yourself or the American system of jurisprudence because the MSM insisted you must know every solitary detail of this murder trial, including what the defendant wore each day and had for breakfast? Will stocks rise or fall on Monday after investors have the weekend to absorb the verdict's impact? Will the war against Islamo-terrorists be disrupted or strengthened by the news?

[Oddly enough Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" is playing in my headphones, proving once again that God sometimes has a strange choice of "messengers" for truth.]

[Damn. Now it's Frampton. Totally uncool. Must. Remove. 'Phones ...]

Some transparency in the court system is a good thing. Totally transparency in randomly chosen celebrity trials do not serve the cause of justice, encourage greater public cynicism of the judicial process (if that is possible), and irritate some of us beyond description. Don't think they do much for public confidence in news networks either.

Listen CNN, MS-NBC and yes, you too Fox: we don't care what your ratings experts and surveys are telling you. Enough with the show trials. Give Court TV its niche and get back to reporting on the stuff we might need to hear, not just the dirty laundry you're interested in.

That is all.