Oh look, it's kind, daffy Rose from Golden Girls. What's that? She's going to give her thoughts on the Republican nominee? That's so sweet!

All this financial hoo-ha and death of print media is depressing, sure. Kind of makes you wish you could crawl back under your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles covers and take out your Ecto Cooler juice box and hide until the Dow Jones magically soars up 400 points (too late).

Or, if you are anything like me, you spent this week distracting yourself with politically-themed musicals and reminiscing about the days you used to stand in line for Rent rush tickets. Hopefully everyone saw the Les MisBarack video, correct? So good.

But if you are still feeling down, here's The Daily Show's take on Streisand from Wednesday:

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It was while watching a rerun of Golden Girls just now — cable news all day long is too much — that we learned of Estelle Getty's passing, after struggling for years with dementia. Playing Sophia on The Golden Girls for seven years, Getty's bitterly sarcastic character became one of those one-liner characters that any gay could recite at least 10 quotes from. Below, one of our favorite Sophia moments.

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Rue McClanahan’s still going strong. The seventy-two year old has been working steadily since 1970, when she made a brief appearance on the soap opera Another World, then it was on to Mama’s Family and Maude and, of course, The Golden Girls.

Now, seventy-two years young, McClanahan’s lending her talents to the Logo-produced dysfunctional family miniseries Sordid Lives, based on Del Shores’ novel of the same name. Ahead of the show’s July 23rd debut, McClanahan sat down with The New York Blade and proved she’s just as opinionated as ever:

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Lifetime, not content to serve just one historically oppressed group (womyn), is now going after the gays. By stealing Project Runway from Bravo and commissioning projects like Carson Kressley's How to Look Good Naked, it's clear the channel is finally catering to the audience of homothethuals it always managed to attract. Except as the Observer points out, the channel is a bit too earnest, a bit too P.C., a bit too Middle America. Army Wives, anyone? It's everything that isn't Bravo, the sassy and smarter channel.

And as if to show they've got something to prove, Lifetime is making the biggest mistake of all: They're bailing on Golden Girls and Will & Grace – the show for those who still find Sex and the City too edgy – which is the only excuse our DVR ever had for tuning in.