Conor Friedersdorf has a thoughtful post up at The Daily Dish about the angry reaction to that awful story of Shellie Ross, the Florida blogger who tweeted the drowning death of her two-year-old son just 34 minutes after it happened.

A writer named Lisa Warren wrote a story yesterday afternoon on the Huffington Post. It was headlined "Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris." One of those two "Black Role Models" was the president. (The other one was some athlete.) "It is tragic when an icon falls. When a black icon stumbles the tragedy seems doubly problematic," she wrote. The responses are apparently not quite what she expected! (Somehow!) Fortunately, she has her Twitter to keep her warm.