Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Engagement Confirmed (What the Heck?)

This comes to us direct from the Columbus Dispatch, whose editors apparently think their readers give a crap about this.

Bollywood Stars to Marry Later This Year

The article states that: "Bollywood movie stars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are engaged and will marry later this year, the former Miss World's manager confirmed Monday, ending months of speculation about their relationship."

I am glad that has been cleared up, because the "months of speculation" were driving me crazy. Why, everywhere I turned throughout Columbus people were talking about Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai and the status of their relationship. Not to mention all the buzz on the Internet. Hell, thinking about it was keeping me up at night.

Seriously, though, does anybody in the Western hemisphere, much less the capital of Ohio, give a crap about this. I certainly don't. So why is the Dispatch wasting space in its paper and on its web-site with this crap when there are really important issues they could be covering, like the fact that the new season of American Idol starts tomorrow.