Today I learned that I was the only person on earth who didn’t know who Amanda Knox was. Or at least that’s what everyone wants you to think these days, that they are up on all the latest in hot chick murder trials. But come on, can someone else please admit this is the first they heard of this person? I read the newspaper as much as the next guy (rarely) and I’m on the HuffPos and Facebook and Twitter wire (often), yet her name barely registered for me until yesterday. Then, suddenly, she’s a pop culture phenom. Much like her BFF, Casey Anthony, everyone seemed to know everything about this girl overnight. Where she gets her eyebrows done, where she buys her cutlery, how many roommates she didn’t kill, etc.
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