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Hey, have you seen this news article?
<a href="http://dailymonitornews.com..."/>New details about Michael Jackson's Death Emerge</a>
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this...

To me, there was always something of a Greek tragedy to Jackson. Not in the "hubris will get you" sense (though that might be possible). But, in the "gods moving the chess pieces against you" sense. To this day, I am not sure that he ever was able to live his own life.

I thought this commentary from Bob Schieffer today on FACE THE NATION (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdo...) was exceptionally well said:

"Finally today, a society is defined by what it honors, who it chooses as its heroes.

"There is no better way to understand America than to reflect on the holidays we celebrate or, better yet, to walk among the monuments of Washington which are, after all, an index of American values. The Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial explain who we are because
they tell the world who we admire, who our heroes are. We put the World War II Memorial there so others would know we appreciate a generation willing to risk its lives for those beliefs.

"So what does the wall-to-wall commotion over the death of Michael Jackson tell us?

"Yes, we recognize his talent and that his music had an enormous impact. When he was young and I was younger, I took my children to one of his concerts. It was a fine show. But his tortured existence, his devotion to excess, celebrity, and, for want of a better word, 'weirdness' would seem most of all to be an example of how not to live one’s life.

"Down through history, those who have produced great art or accomplished great feats have not always
been great people. The artist Caravaggio was a murderer. Van Gogh was insane. Barry Bonds hit a lot of home runs.

"There is nothing new about separating art from the artist, celebrating one without necessarily approving the other. But even as I tried to think of it in that way, the events of last week still left me feeling uncomfortable about the whole thing.

"Pop icons and American heroes are not one and the same."