In the course of perusing the Web, I came across the Yahoo front page, which gave a prominent display of the “top entertainment news stories,” as though this sort of drivel is really newsworthy.

The top story is entitled, “Inside the Top Scandals of 2004!” The article proceeds to name the top five “scandals,” as named by two people I’ve never heard of (so, why should I care?). Of the five scandals named, only one surrounded a man, Mel “the unchristian” Gibson. The other four involved women. What was most striking was the presentation of the whole thing on the root of the Yahoo domain:

So the message I can get from this is that women are scandalous creatures. Who in the world thought this is an okay way to present something that’s not even very newsworthy to begin with? Now, come on, Yahoo. Please don’t become a virtual trash rag. Y’all are bigger than that. This image I captured is your scandal.