¶ It would be uttermost hypocrisy if we tut-tutted the Times for giving ample space to two not unrelated stories today. ¶ The first is a rather incoherent — unavoidably incoherent, perhaps — account of an ABC stunt show, 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. Watch one of the show’s YouTube clips after a selection from Candid Camera, and you will taste the bitterness of our national decline. I don’t think that the ordinary people in these shows are dumber than they used to be, but the producers are cynical and the audiences debased. Now, if they repackaged it as The Darwin Awards… ¶ The obituary of one Ryan Dunn, whom we’d never heard of, a “Jackass” who lost control of his Porsche 911 in the woods near his Pennsylvania home, killing a passenger as well as himself. Our first tyhought was that fiery automobile crashes are at least less sordid than drug overdoses, but of course this may have been a case of both.

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