The Furious Fee Fees of Vox Populi

How tiresome it is to see the fee fees of vox populi being continually spooked by rustlers, triggering the predictable media stampede.

The manufactured furors over the Rolling Stone bomber cover, the New Yorker Bert & Ernie cover, "Balloon Boy," Howard Dean’s “scream,” Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction — all of them nothing at all but the same cynical carny tricks that always seem fool the rubes.