Why pay the carnival hawker to see the Freak Show when there are those that will show it for free?

Please, could we take a moment to think of his children? At least now they have a shot at normality.

There was nothing more to see, but I doubt anyone really got back to work.

Sort of like when the lunatic put a shotgun slug through my Escort when he passed me on his way to the freeway. After dealing with the police, and then getting a six pack, and then finally sleeping; getting to work was...okay, I was there, but only until I completed a hearing and few other things; and then I got my car back from the police, and called insurance, and took it to the dealership, and went home.

And had a few more beers before going to sleep. I mostly don't think about it, until someone talks about 'heads split open' and I recall the slug passed about a foot behind my head. Then I think about it.

I don't hate the shooter because he IS a lunatic, so loony they called in the state police and university psych docs, and many opinions agreed - completely loony, and now in one of the few state mental hospital/prisons left here.

It was nothing about me - I was just there, and almost not there.

But it was nothing about me.

A few years ago I was at the gym working out with my then trainer, a middle aged black man. Michael Jackson was on the television when the trainer came over to check out my readiness. It was a news channel and they were reporting on some one of Jackson's shenanigans, maybe it was the dangling the baby out the window incident.

My trainer put it all in perspective. He looked up at a picture of Jackson, shook his head, and said: "That dude has issues."

Sorry Bob, his kids will never be "normal". Not now, not ever.

The fight over the estate will be going on years from now.

The tabloids will be milking this for years.

I haven't watched one second of it or read anything other than the headlines I can't avoid.

I'm glad he's dead. He was a raper of children, what's to grieve?

As I just commented at Rachel Lucas' site, I mourn Neda Soltan much, much more. And I never even heard of her before she died.

I'll miss you. I grew up listening to his songs, watching his dance. I hope, your songs will live in our generation.. You will be remembered through your music forever. Everybody loves him from all over the world! Rest in peace...

Bob. Wow. That's positive thinking! The children will be raised by the same people who raised their father. You decide how good a job they did.