Friday Fish Wrap: 10 July, 2009

Can we all let Michael Jackson rest in peace, and perhaps get a little peace ourselves from the biggest, wierdest funeral of the new century. You’d have thought Elvis, the pope and a brilliant, young new president had just died by all the media driven hoopla. I felt really sorry for his kids, being tearfully paraded on stage. That was obscene.

Jackson mourners crowd the barricades in Los Angeles.

I don’t know whether to think that the world has gone so mad that this is the biggest thing in their bankrupt lives, or that they’re using this as a sick way of diverting themselves from reality. Either way, it doesn’t speak well of their mental health. Yikes! They walk among us

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