Jade Goody - sacrificial victim

I sincerely hope this poor young woman rests in peace, but I have never wtnessed in my lifetime such a spectacle - a sacrificial victim created out of obscurity by venal, voyeuristic television, paraded in front of a venomous audience, who finally turned on her with a hostility that recalls the baying mobs that watched Christians being fed to lions in ancient Rome.

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Living wholeheartedly

How sad to see the death of Natasha Richardson today, after what appeared to be a minor skiing accident. At only 45 years old, she could reasonably have expected to to live the same amount again, gown old with her husband and kids.

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