From KWTX: One-time Mexia chicken restaurant waitress turned Playboy model turned heiress turned reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday afternoon after she was found unconscious in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., a law enforcement source told CNN. (h/t JWebb)

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And who better to wish us all season’s greetings than the late lamented Anna Nicole Smith, who gave us her very own unique take on English to learn and enjoy [originally published between 2004-2006]…?

That’s right: protein wisdom turns 10-years-old this month (Dec 17) — though it started as creatical.com, wore a pea-green backdrop, was comprised of “several” co-writers (all of them me, though I gave them loaded, tongue-in-cheek names like Dr. Ann D. Kaufmann; recall, at the time I had no readers and there was no such thing, as of yet, as a “blogosphere,” so the format for what a “respectable” political blog

Well, kids, the autopsy results are in, and here’s the final tally:

One virtually unanswerable way to respond to others’ foul pronouncements with respect to your faith is to run them over with your cab, for nothing represents the goodness of God so well as a 4-barrel 455 V-8 careening toward a fare.  It may not win you style points, but it is very effective, and if you are a member of a minority, it’s very unlikely that it will be regarded