I regret this guy died, but just because his job happened to be pretending and he became famous for it, I don't get the artificial import of this in the news cycle. The U.S. economy looms perilously on the edge of a precipice and the media is consumed with an actor dying.

I see all this dreck and hear about it on the radio and I just cringe. It seems to me Americans are becoming caricatures of themselves.