How low can you go? I’ll tell you. On USA Today’s home page is a box titled “In memory: Lives we lost this year.” Whose picture is in it?

Anna Frakking Nicole Smith.

Anna Nicole Smith? That’s who they choose to represent who died in 2007? Are they out of their minds? Of all the people who died this year, the site features a porn star?

ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

You know who was more important than a former Playboy bunny?

Boris Yeltsin, Lady Bird Johnson, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Marcel Marceau, Luciano Pavarotti, Mr. Wizard, Evel Knievel, Merv Griffin, Don Ho, Liz Claiborne, and Joey Bishop.

You know who else was more important than that (literally) self-inflated whore? Yvonne De Carlo (who played Lily Munster), Jerry Falwell (who preached hatred and intolerance to millions), Vincent DeDomenico (the inventor of Rice-A-Roni) and Mr. Frakking Whipple.

Someone over at USAT needs to gain just a teeny bit of godsdamn perspective. Sheesh.

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Addendum: I held out a teeny bit of hope that the photo on the home page rotated through the list of those who died, but nope. It’s all Anna.