Posthuman Blues

Newsflash! Ronald Reagan is finally dead! I just checked Yahoo! to confirm it. I remember reading George Carlin's least looked-forward-to celebrity deaths: Bob Hope and Ronald Reagan. I was quite surprised at the lack of labored sentimentality when Hope died (then again, I don't have a TV, so maybe I missed something).

Now Reagan's out of the way. I don't know for sure, but this could be a ready-made rallying point for the W. crowd. A lot of Americans inexplicably perceived Reagan as some sort of political hero/entertainer. So the Republicans could do worse than fleece the imminent Reagan-nostalgia for all it's worth.