The big question now is who supplied Michael Jackson with his drugs all these years?  Did anyone supply Jackson with a deadly drug that may have killed him?

Did the Michael Jackson fan following have even a slight awareness of the possibility that the entertainer they worshiped had sadly become an often very tired, possibly even burned out drug victim?

A mystery element entered the puzzling picture of Jackson's untimely death when his London show backer revealed on the June 2 Anderson Cooper 360 program the following startling fact.

He explained how Michael had adamantly refused to accept the London doctor who had been chosen to stay with him.

As the New York Post chimpanzee cartoon February 18 continues to debated among the punditocracy one point needs to be made from a simple journalistic standpoint.

When I was a youngster starting in high school journalism in Los Angeles the one thing we always had, and that any journalistic enterprise of any size or significance possesses, is an editorial desk.  

Since we went over the spelling of a high school running back's name as if we were writing up the D-Day Invasion, with our editors insisting we obtain correct information, then how could the New York Post be given any kind of a pass on this one on the rationale of "No harm, no foul, we meant nothing racist"?  

It was all, as Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan labeled it, "clear parody."  

Dennis Kucinich made one of the most potentially significant comments on the current political scene in some time last week.  Citing the prospect of a possible preventive war against Iran by the Cheney-Bush neocon con Administration, Kucinich concluded that perhaps the only way to prevent such a conflict, which would contravene international law and the U.S. Constitution, would be an impeachment action.  

Kucinich further stated that he might be willing to introduce such articles of impeachment in the House.  This is significant news by any yardstick since a prominent congressman and announced candidate for president in 2008 has actually mentioned the word impeachment in direct contravention to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's previous comment about impeachment being "off the table."

How much did you read or hear about this important statement from Kucinich in the mainstream media?  Kucinich, it should be noted, did appear in the latest edition of Time.  That leading mainstream journal did not mention Kucinich in any significant context, however, instead concerning itself with trivial pursuit.  

A mention was made in the letters section that Kucinich stood at 5-7, hardly a noteworthy topic.  At that height he towered above Napoleon and Fiorello LaGuardia, as if any of this really mattered.