I find it amusing

That CNN is the only/first major news site to post the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Garner engagement.

So there it is... Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are engaged. Oh, and Jen's expecting his baby.

I'm not polluting a strictly "intellectual" discussion forum with petty news. I mean, if a prominent U.S. cable news network put it on the front page, it must be important. Oh, but it wasn't the leading story. That would be some new "development" on another affluent, young, and white female missing from Aruba with suspects of minority races.

I know Teagle and others justify it by saying, "well, they're 24/7. They run out of things to say. But it's not like there's no news at all today. I mean, Bush declared war on malaria, TIMES released its anonymous sources to a grand jury subpoena, and the Fed raised interest rates. Even Bennifer 2.0 story's better than the overexposed, prejudiced (how many missing minorities and men do you hear about?), overdone, and shamelessly formulaic story of a missing teen.