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The definition of useless knowledge would be the following - to know that a haughty, yet scrawny and truly not that knowledgeable over-rated TV personality is acting holier-than-thou... when he appeared in the lowest form of mass-appeal entertainment... a movie such as "Baseketball"!

However - such is not the subject that got me back to blogging today - after a week of mourning and rethinking things... a bit of existential angst is to be expected after losing a relative in her prime such as my cuz Paula... Another young woman, younger even, has met her demise untimely - one Natalee Holloway, originally of Mountain Brook, Alabama... She should have not left her near-rural stomping grounds (I presume they were) to go study in the big city and from there go to Aruba on what would become a fatal school trip, though all in hopes of a bright future... and a dashing rich boy boyfriend... She will never have the former now - and should have never found the latter either; for he was likely her downfall. 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot seems to have been a Claus von Bülow of the new millennium - quite prematurely though. More and more boys his age and much younger still tend to be precocious in this day and age, yes... a sign, undoubtedly...

Other so-called columnists have wasted their time applauding one TV personality -the over-rated one I alluded to early on- for declining to guest-host on Larry King Live* on the day that this sad affair was the topic... as the media circus surrounding it has become too much yet again. Focusing on that is like decrying that the packaging bubblewrap of your Holy Bible that came in the mail is sub-par... what matters is the MESSAGE. And applauding an imbecile like Bob Costas for frowning upon the most meritorious subject he will EVER be asked to talk about - while he appeared on meaningless movies and sports shows, dispensing his even more meaningless opinion about things... well... that is an exercize in futility that boggles the mind! But such is what the following third link would-be "serious" columnist chose to focus on... Me - I want the rich boy to pay if he did it (which is likely to be the case too - he would be a much younger as smuggier Ted Kennedy in that...) and thus what is of interest to me is the contents of the first link.
(Here is hoping that these links will remain valid for a long time to come - as both sites here are so stiffy about copying and pasting their not-so precious material... wiat.com has NEWS - they become yesterday's news every 24 hours or so - correct? And useless-knowledge.com - well - that very name says it all! It is useless; only funny at times - why in the world won't they let people copy and paste it? Again - it boggles the mind...).

The timeline of the events of the ongoing investigation

How the interrogation might have gone according to one useless knowledge jokester

And how wonderful news reporting is according to another useless knowledge jokester

In the comments section, en lieu of the forbidden contents of those links (which really are not so interesting that you might want to preserve them forevermore anyway - especially that third one there...!) - you will find my correspondence with the so-called columnist who lauds one Bob while diminishing the drama that the family of one Natalee Holloway is going through - because of the handling of this story by Fox-News... Truly nonsensical...