July 2009

If you haven't seen the front page of a newspaper in the last couple of days, there was a big arrest yesterday in the state of New Jersey which included three mayors, two assemblymen, and five Orthodox rabbis. The charges were for public corruption and money laundering. I don't know the details of the case, but from what's come out so far, it doesn't look too good for these guys.

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Michael Jackson was laid to rest today, but I wonder if we slowly killed him years ago. In the two weeks since his passing, the myriad articles that have come out seem to couple any mention of his eccentricity or bizarreness with an explanation of his rough childhood or lonely adulthood. It makes me think that the media is finally done torturing the guy now that he's gone. Mocking the dead, after all, is in poor taste in almost everyone's book.