What, the guy who was a has-been and a laughing stock yesterday is suddenly a demi-God because he croaked? Are you kidding me, are we at this again? I was a teen when Elvis died and the same thing happened -- are we seriously looking at another Elvisian deification?

As it was for Elvis, it appears that death was a great career move for Michael Jackson.

thing last night. The only justification for deifying Elvis was that he WAS NOT a child molester and he did invent the fried banana desert. Michael Jackson? What desert did HE invent? Well perhaps the wingding.

All of this is simple ridiculousness from people who are simply ridiculous.

I could not agree more.

Michael Jackson had left "eccentric" behind decades ago and dove head first into batshit crazy. If he hadn't been a millionaire pop star, he'd have been in prison a long time ago or at least committed to an institution. The guy had admitted that he liked to share his bed with young boys.

BTW, his music sucked, too.

across the board on something. I know that the world is not coming to an end, but just for a second there I thought I felt it tremble. Well said . . . and you will probably never hear that from me again.

Gatewood:

thing last night. The only justification for deifying Elvis was that he WAS NOT a child molester and he did invent the fried banana desert. Michael Jackson? What desert did HE invent? Well perhaps the wingding.

All of this is simple ridiculousness from people who are simply ridiculous.

Neither man created a desert. Only Montgomery Burns could pull off that level of environmental havoc.