Who mistook the steak for chicken?

Just a few brief items before I go to bed:

1. The description for the CHICKEN pot pie I ate a few hours ago says (and I quote):

"This great tasting, top and bottom crust pot pie is packed with large chunks of tender turkey, our classic mix of vegetables and a delicious homestyle gravy."

That's a pretty crazy typo, isn't it? That's like how the title verso page of my copy of The Glass Cat of Oz identifies it as The Magic Dishpan of Oz.

2. There was a story on the news about a murder, the victim of which was described as an honors student. I don't mean to miss seeing the forest for the trees here, but how is the fact that she was an honors student relevant? Would the murder have been less tragic if she'd gotten bad grades? I've noticed a general tendency in the news media to talk up victims of murder and other violent crimes, as if the fact that they're human beings somehow isn't enough.

3. Kirsten Powers was backing up Bill O'Reilly on the proposition that an anti-Condi cartoon in a Middle Eastern newspaper was racist. While it's quite possible that they were right about this, what about Kirsten's comment from a few weeks ago? Isn't it rather hypocritical for her to point out other people's racism?

Notes and Letters

The sound on my iTunes is scratchy. Not all the time, but sometimes. Other sound applications work just fine, so I think it's a problem with iTunes itself, not my speakers. I tried doing a repair through Control Panel, but that didn't help. Any idea as to how to fix this problem?

Anyway, here's a survey from majellen:
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And here's a meme from lozenger8:
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