Finding a Role in Life

Kevin and I are just back from the grocery store, part of which inevitably involved being stuck in a check-out queue with little to do but stare idly at the tabloid and celebrity magazines piled up to tempt us. While engaged in this enforced browsing of dubious journalism I had a small epiphany. Now that the Weekly World News is no longer with us, other people will evolve to take over the market niches that were occupied by our favorite WWN characters. And judging from the increasingly bizarre stories about her, Britney Spears is the new Bat Boy.