Ok, this bothered me the other day. December 7th was Pearl Harbor day. I never heard anything about it. That doesn't mean there weren't ceremonies or that nobody talked about it. I didn't hear anything myself. This year on 9/11 it was almost as quiet for me. I believe I saw the beginning of a baseball game that did something extra before the game started. That was it.

December 8, 1980 John Lennon of the Beatles was "assassinated". I could NOT get away from that news this ENTIRE WEEK. Really? Some hippie with a guitar preaching peace and playing for the most overrated band in the existence of man gets more attention from the media and the general public that the THOUSANDS of people that died between the two national tragedies that I previously mentioned? Hell, if you type in "December 8" into Google, the first auto-complete option is "December 8 1980" because CLEARLY you must want to grieve Lennon like the millions of other people in the world still stapled to that bandwagon.

I don't mean to be disrespectful. The loss of human life is tragic. But he was a dude from England carrying a guitar. It wasn't Mother Theresa. Meanwhile we'll piss on the graves of every dead at Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center because we drank too much hipster wine in salute to Lennon whose grave happens to be one plot over.

And this isn't because I fancy myself some good old, red-blooded patriot. I just don't get the Beatles, or really anything superficial that conjures that much emotion from hordes of strangers. Get over it, people.