view most emailed

news sites like CNN rock. one cool item is the "view most emailed option" if you email a story to someone.

so while i am emailing the most emailed story of the day, i learn that Phish is breaking up. the breakup is the second most emailed story. loved phish, but when i listened to them and saw them in concert, they were called the grateful dead. ;-)

so what was the most emailed story of the day?
Spanky the clown arrested on porn charges.

Wish I could have written THIS headline. now first, let me tell you why this pisses me off. i sat in front of this fucker with my then 2-year-old daughter when we saw the circus. we were down on the floor before the show started and the clowns were running around. i remember him clearly. and whether or not i am a parent, child porn is just wrong. the timing is pretty fucked up too as the ringling folks just had a death of someone who comes off as the polar opposite of spanky. she leaves behind a husband and two kids. too bad she did not fall on top of spanky, breaking her fall and killing this clown.

rant aside, this story is almost a gift as it applies to sheer comment potential. SPANKY the clown? somewhere in here there is also a priest comparison of some sort. but that would just get my irish up again, so i'll pass.