Politics aside, that is one smokin' piece of writing. Thank you.

Thanks for your reply, Jodee.

Ms. Cosin herself said she was "gonna get deep for a minute," right at the beginning of her post.

I'm sorry to hear that she lost her cousin. Perhaps the status update, being a personal expression of grief, was never meant to be subjected to public scrutiny and comment. But you presented it as a line of thought worthy of consideration, which all the commenters did, but rejected as being unworthy. She may be quite wonderful, but all we have to go on are her words, lovely in their simplicity. The sad fact is that life is never as simple as we'd like it to be. While we enjoy life in our wealthy, progressive country, others struggle merely to survive. One woman's joyous bacon feast is another creature's misery and death. There's nothing wrong with being happy and blowing bubbles, but is that the best response we come up with in the face of death? It doesn't seem deep to me. Thanks again for responding.

This could be considered "deep" only in a culture in which no individual is worried about surviving a missile attack, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, government censorship, unrelieved famine or drought, or is not a pig.

I'm sure it wasn't the first time this had happened. Otherwise why record video?

What I'm wondering is, how did your child happen to come up with THAT word? Did it just come out that way by accident, or did he hear it somewhere else? I'd be a bit concerned

Oh, I just meant our standard of living (in some respects, not all) is so much higher here, compared to a lot of other places.