Vogue, the Boston bombers and the end of civilisation as we know it

America and western Europe sure have their priorities right, blanketing our newspapers, magazines and the airwaves with newsworthy items that reflect our culture. For example, the April cover of Vogue magazine featuring a rap thug and a reality TV queen on its cover has been covered as extensively as the sinking of the Titanic was back in 1912, except that those were pre-TV and pre-internet times and only ink-stained wretches invaded our homes daily. The editor of Vogue apparently wrote that she wanted to feature those who define our culture and who stir things up.

That’s not even original, because another monthly some time ago featured on its cover the mass murderer of the Boston marathon, calling him sexy. The Muslim thug, whose family was described by the neighbours as loud, obnoxious, entitled and who dumped waste out of their state-supplied home, was then called ‘pillow-soft’ by a besotted numbskull reader.