OK Michael Jackson

So what happened to all those mean people who hated Michael Jackson because they saw him as betraying everything he used to represent? They are all mourning his death now, it would seem.

I burned out on Thriller and stopped paying attention twenty years ago, and then suddenly last Spring I downloaded the same album for a party mix. Behold middle age.

But seriously there has been such a massive turn around about Michael Jackson, it cannot only be about speaking well of the dead, or even not realizing how excellent someone was until he died.

There has to be more going on here, some of it has to do with the way in which we are all trained to convulse through media, some of it has to do with a general realization that public opinion was harsh on Michael. The machismo that hammered him in the 1980s has worn off. Perhaps