RIP Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed MacMahon, So Forth

Today we were blindsided by MJ's death. Tomorrow we'll be blindsided by the details reporters dig up about his life.

It's been a tough couple weeks it's a media feeding frenzy out there, bigger sharks are feeding on smaller sharks every half hour:

MJ has died suddenly
Iran Contra(versy)
Riots everywhere
Pre-Troop Pullout Violence in Iraq
Beautiful & Courageous Neda
US Beefing up Missile Defenses "just to be safe" while N. Korea sails a ship possible laden with nuclear "magic dust" bound for an equally totalitarian Burma
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korean death camps. Godspeed on their safe release.
NY Times Reporter escapes taliban captors, NY Times asked all other media outlets to keep his capture a secret, they comply, I'm scared about what else the media is hiding
Oh in fact they are hiding more stuff: Mark Sanfords infidelity and possible abuse of power - an SC paper had the details for months, but decided not to print anything allowing him to provide the American public with a surreal press conference
Jon and Kate + 8 - Too Late... omg. But I thought reality tv strengthens couples, like when Speidi went on that bs celeb island show and got kicked off in a humid costa rican minute.
Mexico's war on drugs has killed over 8000 mexicans in the last two years (on both sides of the law)

hmmmmmmmmm kind of makes you want to write a new version of:

we didn't start the fire (billy joel)

OR

it's the end of the world as we know it (REM)

Cheers America.