Surprisingly nice headline of the week:R.I.P. Betty Ford

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 1 August 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! While People did a respectful cover story on Betty Ford last week, the low rent Examiner follows suit a week later. The headline reads "Courageous First Lady at Peace", and I have a hard time disagreeing with that.

I still count the low rent Examiner as one of the Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids, but to quote They Might Be Giants, I can declare them The Nicest Of The Damned.

Betty Ford, 1918-2011

Publication: People
Date: 25 July 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! People pays its respects to the former First Lady with a cover story this week, the sub-headline reading "Her Life of Courage". The only other supermarket rag mention of her in the past two years is when the low rent Examiner wrote that she and Nancy Reagan buried the hatchet.

Best wishes to the family and friends of Betty Ford, from a fan of the concept of moderate Republicans, who are sadly a dying breed.