Forgive Me

My personal preoccupations of the early 80s apparently left me permanently out of sync with the rest of the world in some ways, and I never fell under the spell of the Thriller album. The most recent Michael Jackson song I really enjoy listening to these days is Never Can Say Goodbye, though the love song to the homicidal rat Ben always gets a laugh. For at least the last decade, Michael Jackson has seemed like an amazingly tragic and pathetic spectacle, and I have a tendency to think it rude to gawk at such people.

Cable news obviously thinks differently.

If there is anything I'd want less than another evening of repeating loops of Michael Jackson videos, news footage from the trial, and random vigils in LA, Gary, or Paris, it's got to be Deepak frickin' Chopra talking about Michael Jackson in a split-screen with repeating loops of Michael Jackson videos and news footage. Any minute now they'll be asking the people at the wildlife sanctuary about how Bubbles is reacting to the news.

No cable news for me tonight, I guess.

Just in case you don't know, the House passed the global warming bill, and things are deteriorating in both Iran and Iraq. I'm just sayin'.