Aaron Hernandez's "Gay Prison Lover"

So, I bit on clickbait.

I mean, why not, it's Aaron Hernandez? Between the fact it's a for-them-to-prove-but-they-say-so suicide, and he's reasonably good-looking, this story has gotten way more press than I'd imagine it should. Then, Instinct Magazine decides to reprint something the gossip rag The Daily Mail put out: he wrote a suicide note to a gay, in-prison lover.

They're seriously quoting The Daily Mail as a legitimate source? Seriously?! That's like quoting The National Enquirer (RIP).

Most serious press, if they say "sources say" and they've established themselves with journalistic integrity, they can get a pass. More than likely they're keeping the source anonymous for the source's well-being. When The Daily Mail says it?

Well, it could be hogwash.

Wedding Hands - John King

So, John King and Dana Bash have separated.

Like many of the songs that I happen on for the first time, it's a year old when I find out, but I suppose in this case CNN has done their best to keep it quiet.

I remember back in 2008 when they were talking about it. John King got his now-defunct (and I'd predicted it would be; I mean, I really couldn't take a show called John King, USA seriously at all) show, and two CNN political "power-hitting" correspondents getting hitched? That was "newsworthy" indeed.

I was even telling my mother, saying literally, "He became a Jew for her." It seemed like it would last.

So, here I am watching Erin Burnett OutFront (that, despite my hesitation with that show's name, I didn't predict similar doom as John King, USA) and they have John King up.

Being me, I look at his wedding hand, as I do for just about every male I encounter (a very weird quirk, I know!). And I don't see a ring. So I start questioning. And researching.

And behold, the Internets say anything from separated to divorced. And it surprised me.

Then I start thinking about Dana Bash and John King separately, and think about what they must be like together.

Then I'm less surprised.

The things I think about when I look at a man's wedding hand.