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I know, I know: Another celebrity couple bites the dust and, as one Lemondrop staffer put it, "I couldn't care less!"

But for some reason the news that Tipper and Al are calling it quits after 40 years of marriage actually gets me.

Maybe it's because, even from a distance far enough to require binoculars, you can tell that guys like Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford and Jesse James are nothing but cads. But, frankly, do-gooding, save-the-Earth Al seemed different. It seemed like Tipper had found herself a Nice Guy who, after he got the hell out of politics, kind of found his calling.

Or maybe I just need a way to mourn the oil slick that just won't quit, and the demise of the marriage of Al Gore, who poured all of his passion into "An Inconvenient Truth," seems an appropriate symbol. Besides, if a guy with a Nobel Peace Prize can't make marriage work, it does beg the question, "Who can?"

Dunno, what do you think: Does this news make you a little more depressed than the rest of the A-list catastrophes?