The press can hardly say enough good things about James Brown and rightly so. As for poor Gerald Ford, well the NY Times does a classic job of damning with faint praise:

He might have been the nice guy down the street suddenly put in charge of the nation, and if he seemed a bit predictable, he was also safe, reliable and reassuring. He placed no intolerable intellectual or psychological burdens on a weary land...

60 MINUTES did a story this past Sunday about a find of documents created by the Nazis during the holocaust. I'm assuming that the timing of this story had more to do with refuting the recent Iranian holocaust-denial-palooza than with bringing up lousy memories for the tribe at Hanukkah. I mean, it's different to imagine 60 MINUTES doing an expose on The Crusades, say, at Christmas.

That's not the point. The point is that there was one especially awful piece of narration. I have the podcast for use in transcription:

And just look at the names of the executed. Crowded onto pages, single-spaced. It must have been tiring just to write this, let alone kill them all.

That's the thing about genocide-- it's tiring. Especially the paperwork, geez!

The best part about having one's superpowers be cuddles is that you get to wear cut off sweats and tube socks instead of a lycra caped thingy.