A life is a terrible thing to waste ... yet 24 Tibetans (many of them monks) have self-immolated in the last year to protest the Chinese government's repressive treatment of the Tibetan people, (See: LA Times Story ... please read it to the end).
These protests have gotten scant coverage in the Western media and, thus, these grisly deaths have achieved little purpose in this country. Why is this? Obviously, Justin Bieber's mooning over Selena Gomez is much, much more important ...
