This month did not bode well for the entertainment industry with the untimely death of David Carradine. Then this week, Ed McMahon passed away, but today was a tragedy with the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and of course, Michael Jackson. The radio waves are bombarded with similar reports of his death and I can see the headlines tomorrow. Front page news, local section, entertainment section, calendar section...and so it will go.
Okay I guess I'm not seeing the intense impact of this. Call me a cynic. I mean yeah, it is Michael Jackson, who is probably the Elvis of our generation, but it still riles me up a bit that this trumps global events in terms of coverage. But I suppose with all the chaos going on locally, nationally, and globally, it's a reprieve from the impending doom of our planet.
Anyway, in other news:
> Iranian opposition leader Mir Houssein Mousavi continued to urge supporters to protest and will continue to challenge the elections that took place earlier this month.
> North Korea warns of retaliation if the US leads an attack. "Let's crush them," was the chant of hundreds of thousands at an anti-US rally.
> The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the strip search of an Arizona middle school student was illegal
(un)Intellectual examinations of everything
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