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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:00 AM

Michael Jackson's death means little to me

Who's mourning the dead in Afghanistan? Our hearts should go out to the innocent victims of our wars
By Thomas M. Engelhardt

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  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009 08:41 PM

    Edit Feature, please

    I'd like to believe that we, as humans, are capable of feeling sorrow for any one person's or group's deaths as close to equally as possible. Mr. Engelhardt's headline was enough to discourage me from reading this article. Why read through something that condemns people for actually acknowledging the life of a legendary artist, using the plight of a people halfway across the globe as a foil?

    Mental note: type more carefully late at night.

    —V.B. from MN Read V.B. from MN's other letters

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