I remember back in 2001 in the wake of the WTC disaster, when pretty much all of us were shell shocked, I said "I miss the time when ridiculous things like Michael Jackson's activities made first page news".

So here I am today, rather bored and home (not because I'm sick but off) watching mindless tv and my show gets interrupted to tell me that a warrant has been filed because M.Jackson has not shown for court. I groan and say "you've got to be kidding me!". But then I sit back, smile, and am glad for this kind of Hollywood stupidity. I'd much rather this then something blowing up, somebody being killed etc etc etc. We've all seen too many etc's in our day.

When Michael Jackson is all they can scrounge up as "news" we're all doing okay for the moment. I guess we should enjoy it while it lasts.