Every time a truly remarkable person dies, the world is a little poorer for it.

Irena Sendler died today. She was 98. A long, and, hopefully, post-war happy life. No one deserved it more.

She had saved some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets. She was arrested and tortured but refused to give up her accomplices. And after she escaped, she changed her name and continued her work.

When honored as a hero, she responded with: "Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."

May she rest in true peace. As a born Jew, and an agnostic at best, I don't know if there is a heaven. But at times like these, I sure hope there something. Because there has to be a place where people like that get their due.

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I can't remember who said this, but it struck a chord: there are so many signs of apocalyps lately, it might actually fool us and not come at all.

Seriously, long-dead movie stars make sex tapes and children write memoirs... I'm scared!

( • A New York businessman has bought a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex for $1.5 million. )

( • 15-year-old Miley Cyrus has signed a deal to write her memoirs. )
( • Hands off Annie Leibovitz! )


( • On a much funnier note, the next Undisclosed location just might be a beet farm in Pennsylvania! )




• Finally, I need people's opinion:

What do you think of the phrase "Your Time. Your Thoughts. Your TV"? Too pretentious? Too long? Too something? Just right? Help is appreciated! :)