July 1, 2009    2:26 p.m.

I know she hasn't said anything about it and maybe I'm jumping the gun.

But... I've noticed these stories popping up about Michelle Obama ordering her staff to get with the President's staff and find some issues in which she (Michelle) can take a leading role in shaping policy.

Methinks... uh oh... here we go again.

Hillary tried this. And by the time she ran for President I had become convinced that she was as qualified as anybody else. She did go to school in the U.S. Senate, and she probably had a reasonable amount of exposure to foreign policy types around the (Bill) Clinton administration.

And the first evidence of her ambitions, of course, was trying to take over a health care initiative that her husband, the president, wanted to see pass into law.

So here we have Michelle Obama, flush with the historic first of her husband's election, butting into serious policy inside the White House, and pardon me, but I smell presidential ambitions.

Am I so wrong to be suspicious?

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June 30, 2009    2:58 p.m.

Foxnews.com has those pictures from Michael Jackson's last rehearsal.

I must say he did look emaciated but not bad. And the reports from the photographer and others at the rehearsal were that he still had all his old moves and looked like he was going to do the show of his life. Or 50 shows of his life or whatever number he could get through.

And there is the news of his estate. Record sales are probably going to wipe out his debts, and his family will have about $200 million to split up. Michael could blow though that pretty fast, but maybe his family members will be a little more sensible.

And I think I'm seeing the Michael Jackson Grand Plan. His body will lie in state at Neverland Ranch, and my guess is that he always wanted his own Graceland, so now he's got it.

The picturesque Santa Ynez Valley just north of Santa Barbara in California will now be the gathering place for disconsolate Jackson fans just as Memphis was for bereaved Elvis fans.

It will be a tourist destination. You'll be able to buy a keepsake. You'll see Michael dance, and you will hear him sing.

It will be a place where millions will go every year to remember the great Michael Jackson.

He died young. Come see his beloved Neverland.

That's how he will be remembered.

Choreographed, you might say, by the dancer himself.

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June 29, 2009  2:54 p.m.

Why am I getting hammered on this one?

I've got a lot of angry women calling today saying I'm all wrong. What could I be wrong about? Sanford abandoned his job, his wife, and his kids. He might as well resign as governor, husband and father, and just go to Argentina. His girlfriend is there, and nobody cares about him there.

So what's wrong with that? Can someone tell me?

The women calling seem to think he's committed such a heinous crime he shouldn't get anything he wants, least of all his girlfriend. So is this just about revenge?

By the way, his wife Jenny seems to be fine with him gone. She's got the kids. She doesn't have financial concerns. She seems to be glad not to have to look at him everyday.

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June 26, 2009  2:55 p.m.

But I liked him. As a music business veteran I listened to the records closely, and there was somebody making those records that were very very good.

And I can't believe it was just the producer. I must give MJ credit for driving the producer and the musicians.

I'm old school music biz, I guess. It's fun to chase these people around for the goofy things they do, but ultimately the only reason to be interested in them is that they are good or great artists.

If Michael Jackson were a lousy singer, who would care about the other things he did? He would be just another miscreant... or accused miscreant... we wouldn't feel much about him one way or another.

The fact that he was a great artist is the reason people care about him, and are interested in whatever he does, the good and the bad.

I've seen this happen a lot.

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June 25, 2009  2:49 p.m.

I guess he did have to come out and say something.

But it was too much. I could have done with less.

I expect to hear people talking about "the heart" in movies. Not under the rotunda in the state house.

I expect to see a story about a governor going awol to visit his girlfriend in Buenos Aires. In the movies. Not under the rotunda in the state house.

I expect to read squirm inducing love emails on the big screen in the movies, in a fictional story where the hero gets caught doing something stupid but he's real and authentic as well as vulnerable and devastated. In the movies. Not under the rotunda in the state house.

This is a very painful situation, obviously, for the people involved. But when it is so painful for the people watching that they can't bring themselves to behave in the usual manner--mocking and deriding the people caught red handed--it's obviously too much.

Sanford screwed up. He's a politician so he has to own up. But this is one of those situations where I almost wish he would do what we normally consider to be the wrong thing--refuse to talk about it.

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June 25, 2009  2:31 p.m.

Bad deal.

I think sixty two is fairly young.

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