I appreciate all the comments on my piece about the media casualties--it's the most comments that I've ever gotten on a post, and it also resulted in the highest level of hits to date (thanks to links from Instapundit, Samizdata, Andragna and Vehrs, and Joanne Jacobs, among probably others).

But, in the spirit of the season, and the busking tradition, please, no applause.

Just throw money.

There's a little button over there to the left...

No, but seriously, sometimes stuff like this almost writes itself. It's actually difficult to parody some of these folks, because it's hard to outdo what they themselves say. Just read some of it, watch a few episodes of MASH for the schmaltz factor, and voila...