The unending focus on the loss of Michael Jackson has reached epic proportions. He died. His children are fatherless. This is sad but it is no more sad than the 50,000 families that lose someone to colorectal cancer every year. It is no more sad than the over 400,000 people dead in the conflict in the Sudan.
Michael Jackson had wealth and fame and we in America, apparently, have decided that makes this tale worthy of non-stop media coverage. Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve this sort of attention NOT someone who appears to have finally taken enough drugs to die. Health care reform deserves some honest discussion.
I think Mark Sanford is probably the only person in America relieved to see another Michael Jackson story. It means that no one is talking about his reversal of political fortune.