Nikolay Soltys, suspect in the killings of his wife, son, and four other family memebers, has been captured by police. Two teams of officers converged on his mother’s back yard and found Nikolay Soltys hiding under a desk.

“As he heard us, he sprang to up and appeared he was going to run, but an inoperable refrigerator was blocking his way,” Officer Joachim said.

So, here’s the score. Soltys is an Ukrainian immigrant who was found outside his mother’s home hiding under as desk, but was blocked by an inoperalbe refrigerator when he tried to flee. Yes folks, I guess you can migrate to America and fulfill your dreams of becoming white trash.

I’ll say this as succinctly and clearly as I can. I hate TRL and pretty much everything MTV does. So, I was glad when my boy over at Public Realm peeped me to a Salon article giving an inside look at TRL. This article, thought it tries to tell me that what TRL is doing is ok, only stands to solidify both my hatred and disgust when it comes to most everything MTV produces.

The sheer fact that not only is the entire show fake and scripted from beginning to end, but it encourages young people to become whores for a little “TV time.” Our culture, replete with enough “reality” shows to kill a man, is encouraging the disintegration of principles and morals and even the fading away of individual personality by creating this image that everyone needs to be and can be “famous.” No longer are people bouyed up by their merits and accomplishments, but instead success has succumbed to the principle of dumb luck.

This even applies in the more “serious” business world where 2 years ago Internet dot-com’s where exploding and making money at a ridiculous rate on the stock market. IPO’s had become a lottery for the richest of the rich and all you needed was the precious stock options. Everyone wanted a piece of that pie, and they were, of course, willing to trade some part or all of their dignity to get it. And then it all fell apart.

I’m sure this will happen to the “reality” TV craze and the teen-pop craze and all the other “crazes” that have come before and that will come after. It is the nature of our society not to celebrate the success of some new thing but to rape it and pillage it and mine it for all the substance it may have ever held, until we turn it into a husk of its former self.

It’s a wonder then that we find both of these strains tied up in the downfall of one man: William Shatner.

That’s all from the bunker, 60 floors below sea level. Until next time.

A Seattle woman pulled a Peter Pan off a 160-ft bridge after peer pressure became too much for her to handle. Officials say that as the woman stood on the southbound side of a bridge over the Ship Canal, passing motorists encouraged her to take the Nestea plunge. And at approximately 10 a.m., she pulled off a spectacular cannonball. The woman later said, “I couldn’t have done it without the help of so many nice people.”