Mock it? Ignore it? Understand it as a metaphor for our own vanity and mortality? The smart thing would be to simply refuse to touch it with a ten-foot pole ... but then how could we make sure it's really dead?
Facile jokes aside, there are times in which describing something accurately also means describing it grotesquely, and what we're left with is this: On Sunday morning, the White House senior policy advisor appeared on "Face the Nation" with a thing affixed to his normally balding head that resembled a cross between the demoralized shavings of an Etch-a-Sketch, and a rapidly disintegrating anthill.