Sheesh. We get it. You're too cool to care

Okay. I've officially had it.

This is the latest example...

Bob Parks writes in What's New (well, it's in the newsletter, but that's still last week's on the website - maybe he'll get it up later today):

4. DEATH: MYSTERIOUS INTERNATIONAL NEWS BLACKOUT.As I have done every Friday morning for 25 years, I arose at 5 AM this morning to scan newspapers and television channels to find out what was happening in my world that I should be aware of in composing WN. Alas, there was no news on television. ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN were all dolefully mourning Michael Jackson's unexpected death. Damn! It was international; even BBC and Al Jazeera. They said he was a singer, but I don't recall ever hearing him sing.

Look. I'm not saying you have to like Michael Jackson. I'm not even saying his death should have been the main headline, or that it should have had three-quarters of the Post's front page, or that even in the doldrums of summer programming he and Farrah Fawcett between them deserved every minute of ABC's prime time last night.

But what's the point in pretending you never heard him sing, or don't know who he is? As I tell a friend of mine who claimed (while living in Alexandria) not to know what the Washington Redskins even are: if you're that detached from the culture you live in, why should I trust your perceptions of reality?

Find some other way to indicate your lofty, above-it-all status. KTHXBAI