Deaths that is.
So I guess it might be better to say, "And then there weren't three".
What?!?!?
It's a stupid thing to group deaths like this but so typical of our era. You can see it in this line from The Telegraph:
None of them, neither this three nor the three back then, had the emotional or moral maturity of three-month old puppy. So why does it matter?
It doesn't. Yeah, it's very sad for the people who knew and cared about her that Whitney Houston is dead but beyond that it is an event of no significance whatsoever. Lots of people died yesterday. Buy any newspaper in the world, open to the obituaries and then just put your finger on any name at random and the odds are better than fifty percent that the person you read about there will have lived a life of more moral worth than Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston put together and then squared.
There are more important things in life than wasting your time caring about these people.
So I guess it might be better to say, "And then there weren't three".
What?!?!?
It's a stupid thing to group deaths like this but so typical of our era. You can see it in this line from The Telegraph:
Tony Bennett performed a tribute and told the crowd Houston was "one of the greatest singers I ever heard in my life." He said: "First it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston."Why three? Especially as you have to go back three years to get Jackson on that list. But someone was going to do it because the way people think is so conditioned by what happened between about 1963 and 1972. And you see three singers of some, but varying, talent died within a year of one another in 1970-1971 so we get that echo.
None of them, neither this three nor the three back then, had the emotional or moral maturity of three-month old puppy. So why does it matter?
It doesn't. Yeah, it's very sad for the people who knew and cared about her that Whitney Houston is dead but beyond that it is an event of no significance whatsoever. Lots of people died yesterday. Buy any newspaper in the world, open to the obituaries and then just put your finger on any name at random and the odds are better than fifty percent that the person you read about there will have lived a life of more moral worth than Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston put together and then squared.
There are more important things in life than wasting your time caring about these people.
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