When is an answer not an answer? When it is “It is what it is”. Confused yet? That’s exactly how George Bush, Britney Spears, Al Gore, Brad Pitt and countless football coaches want you to feel.

triple j's latest listener-voted "Hottest 100 Of All Time" reveals an embarrassing lack of female musicians. What does this sausagefest say about sexism in radio programming and among today's yoof?

At one crazy stage in the recent celebrity carnage, Jeff Goldblum and a host of other stars were reported to have died too. What does our response to deaths – real and fake – say about the cult of celebrity?