Well, here we are, in December, with Christmas Day rapidly approaching (fifteen days to go!). Whether you celebrate the holiday, or another, or don’t do a damned thing on December 25, 2007, if you live in the United States and venture outside more than once a month, you’ve already encountered the modern-day interpretation of the “holiday season.”

Call me naive or clueless but I’m genuinely curious why exactly I’m supposed to care that [insert random celebrity here] is pregnant? Why is this shit reported on supposed “news” sites, like Reddit or Digg?

The “news” that “Christina Aguilera is pregnant and naked for her latest magazine cover” scrolled through my Google Reader tonight, and naturally because I’m an idiot American I clicked the link to see what the fine folks over at Digg had to say about it (clicking the link in Reader takes you to the discussion page on Digg, not the actual article). Naturally by the time that page had loaded, there were complaints that the original site hosting the article in question (along with the all-important, entirely non-revealing “nude” pictures of some random celebrity) had croaked.