Poor old Steve Irwin. I can't say I'm too upset, he never meant anything at all to me. Am I the only one who is kind of amused that he wasn't torn apart by crocodiles, but got it from a stingray through the heart?

On the other hand, I can think of other people I'd much rather see dead by stingray than Steve Irwin. Certain members of the Republican hierarchy, for example. Why don't they ever die spectacularly stupid deaths by stingray or painful deaths of cancer? Is it part of the Deal With Satan that you sign when you join that hellish cabal? A long-delayed natural death after a life of undeserved privilege while oppressing freedom and decency and destroying the Constitution and the American Way in return for eternal damnation? Who but Dick Cheney would sign on the dotted line for that?