For God’s Sake, Can’t We Say Goodbye?

Am I the only one that finds this whole Michael Jackson business creepy?
What else, maybe a tad more important is happening?
How’s that stimulus coming along?
“The U.S. should consider drafting a second stimulus package focusing on infrastructure projects because the $787 billion approved in February was “a bit too small,” said Laura Tyson, an outside adviser to President Barack Obama.”
Could man-made disasters be in our future?
“Last week, German authorities discovered that groups of terrorists may have been dispatched from training bases in Pakistan to launch crippling attacks.”
I feel safe that we are speaking with one voice in our support of Israel.
“Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions whether the United States agrees or not, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview on Sunday.”
“US President Barack Obama on Tuesday strongly denied that the United States had given Israel an approval to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. Asked by CNN whether Washington had given Israel a green light for such an attack, Obama answered: ‘Absolutely not.’”
I left the house when the Michael Jackson funeral started. It is now 2:45 and Brooke Shields is bemoaning the loss of her buddy.
Look, I liked Jackson’s music. I thought “Black and White” was the last good thing he did, though. When was that… early ‘90s?
Then the child stuff started. I thought that the whole Neverland thing was just grotesque. The final straw was the interview in which he thought sleeping naked with a pre-pubescent boy was perfectly natural.
Yet the world doesn’t share my disdain. Indeed better folks than I, including Larry King and Wesley Snipes (is he out already?) are among dozens of B-list celebrities basking in the light of the gold casket behind them, their slide toward obscurity halted by the worldwide exposure of this funeral.
I don’t know. The King of Pop with all of his extreme weirdness is being canonized while our soldiers die for our freedom, children die for incomprehensible reasons.
Michael Jackson was tortured. God rest his soul.
The whole world is enthralled by the funeral of a man with a totally tragic life. At three hours later, Sheila Jackson Lee is preaching.
Michael had a remarkable life. He died young. It’s heartrending. In the end, though, he was a talented, twisted man. He might be worthy of adoration, but not four hours of non-stop coverage on every “news” channel.
It all boils down to the Onion headline in October of 2001: “A Mournful Nation Yearns to Care about Useless Bull…, Again.”
At a time when “…a minimum of 12 al-Qaida operatives who were trained in the tribal region of Pakistan have left the training camps and are headed back to their home countries. Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Egypt are just some of those countries,” Geraldo just told us we just can’t say goodbye to the King of Pop.
Well, let’s give it a try. So Long, Farewell, auf Weidersen, Good-Bye.