Rant: Michael Jackson

I'm sorry, but I do not get it. 17,000 people for the funeral of a pop singer, and one who hasn't recorded anything in years, busy molesting kids when he wasn't screwing himself up in a plastic surgeon's office? Ridiculous, don't you think? Only Elvis probably got something on the same scale, and unlike Jackson, he almost deserved it. Frank Sinatra didn't get 17,000 at his funeral -- and that was a pop singer! What is that? Sinatra wasn't innovative? Well, neither was Jackson, but fine -- how about Miles Davis? He didn't get 17,000. And Sinatra wasn't Black? Miles was, as was James Brown, who didn't get 17,000 either. Messed up childhood and adolescence? Try Billie Holiday. She didn't get 17,000. So what gives?