I've been avoiding this...

...but I feel like I finally need to get this out.

I am sick of Charlie Sheen.

Why are we glorifying this douchebag? We get it; he has problems. But really, it took a freaking earthquake and tsunami to get this guy out of the news, at least temporarily. The uprising in Libya wasn't more important. The economy wasn't more important. Even in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands of people have been protesting daily since Valentine's Day, the local news found it necessary to report on Charlie Sheen.

Are we just obsessed with celebrity culture? Is watching Sheen fall apart some weird sort of schadenfreude? I mean, even this somewhat ridiculous Chinese editorial made some good points in that this isn't the type of thing that should be splashed all over the news. Personal struggles, even those of celebrities, should be private. Charlie Sheen shouldn't have been given the opportunity to get so much press out of his bad behavior.

But in a world where nothing is private, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised.