[Tax-chick]

Points for speed, I suppose, but National Review isn't a newspaper. Several FReepers' vanities the day of Johnny's death were much better than this.

I thought journalists were taught verbal economy. "Drug-related addictions" and "health-related maladies" in the same sentence? It reminds me of the obituary in the Shelby County Herald that said my grandfather died "from poor health."

[TedsGarage]

Was this written for the magazine, or the Web edition? Web-based journalism makes the time crunch even worse. The deadline is no longer at 11 p.m., or on Tuesday morning, in the case of a magazine. It's as fast as you can get it out.