"And this is America, where increasingly idiotic things like this occur."

Like celebrity watching, celebrity bashing, celebrity columns and celebrity reading; all in a days work for us idiots.

We've been through this Stranger! Madrid is a perfectly good substitute for Schmader but it's pretty clear we'd rather do without than read Romano's gossip coloumn.

Look, she isn't bad at what she does but it's just blatently inapropriate as a subsitute!

3, w/o reading the byline, we know that she is not a Stranger writer. Clue #1: she mentions football w/o the required derogatory or dismissive comment.

I miss you David and Cienna. Please come back soon.

Oh wah, people. Variety is the spice of life. Ann, you are a lovely respite from the usual doomish and gloomish Last Days (which I also enjoy).

@6: Fair enough. I'm okay with diversity. I'm just tired of hearing all the over-hyped media yadda yadda yadda about Kanye West and the Kardashians, as if they're crowned royalty. Yawn.
I DO, however, agree with most commenters about Ann's continued subbing for David when Cienna does such a kick-ass job. Why doesn't Ann Romano have her own Rona Barrett-like celebrity gossip column?

Oh god, make it stop!!