Sunday, September 26, 2004

Jacko 101

The fabled Yale University held a conference...attended, we're told, by 18 scholars from various U.S. Universities...to discuss the "sexual, racial and artistic aspects of Michael Jackson's life and music".

Don't know about you but me I'm glad to know that our institutions of higher learning are putting time and effort towards exploring the important figures and issues of our day. This might, to some more cynical that I, seem like a frivolous waste of time and resources...an intellectual junket disguised as a serious conference on an important topic...but I ask you what could more important that breaking down the multi-faceted life and cultural impact of a sexually-ambiguous, racially-morphing accused pedophile and self-proclaimed "King of Pop"? Get with the program, people!

Hopefully once they finish this investigation hopefully they can move on the sociological impact of the colorful life and...um..."music" of Britney Spears. Thank whatever intellectual gods there be that Yale is on the cutting edge of the educational frontier.

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