This is a few days old, but it just seems to fit the rest of today’s news so well:

The editor of Glamour magazine has apologised after a reporter issued an appeal for “photogenic” modern war widows.

There was a time when I made a good living just coming with snarky comments about the excesses of the media and politicians and so on. Maybe I’m getting old, or maybe the stories are just getting more horrible, or both. But I may have to start a whole separate blog called “Words Fail” someday. Just for entries like this, for which I cannot summon any useful words.