In response to Mark, I'd like to tell you that the line you speak of in the Smooth Criminal cover by Alien Ant Farm is, Eddie are you okay...

I think that most of your thoughts are right on, and wondered what the difference of the name and sex of the object of song would mean to you?

I completely agree with you about the influence of music and it's Icons. Anyone can see that music has become little more than a soundtrack for whatever mind control they are dishing out this week. I believe poor Mariah Carey can attest to that.

Now I have another question for you. What do you suppose is the link between Michael and Mariah and their obvious confusion when it comes to their race?

Both want to claim to be Black, while they do their level best to appear White. Poor Mariah wouldn't even admit to being of color at all at the beginning of her career. It took her fullblooded sister outing her on nationwide television for her to come out of the closet on that one.

We have as a nation witnessed Michael transform from a Black male to a nearly White, " Not so sure what sex I want to be." So perhaps you might have a theory on this as well?

Please understand I do not wish to engage you in any sort of a verbal battle, but I do believe you have struck upon something and I think if we continue to share thoughts and ideas we might just come up with something.

Also as of now we can add the actor Ben Affleck to the list of artists in Rehab for a supposed drinking problem. I find it odd, this recent rash of rehab inductee's don't you? Even little Danny Bonaducee is trying to get into the $1000 a day treatment center Ben is in.

Now definite irony... Danny, who is now, little more than a glorified talk show "Poster Boy" for child stars gone bad, has the cash laying around for a $1000 a day rehab center when he hasn't done any real film work for years? I just don't think he is on par with the likes of Howard Stern or Don Imus when the gravy train rolls around.

Ben Affleck can't wrap on a film fast enough, due to his busy schedule and high demand. What's wrong with this picture? How can the one afford the same level of care that an Oscar winner easily slips into? I may be really wrong, but I find it curious to say the least.

I also find it odd that Mariah's body guards didn't have the sense to take her directly to a hospital when she was opened up and bleeding badly enough to soak all of the towels in her room at the hotel she freaked out in.

Instead, they take her from her room at the hotel, to her mothers house in the middle of the night, and apparently almost naked. Her mother had enough sense and powers of observation to call 911 and tell them her daughter was having some sort of breakdown and was bleeding profusely. Remind me to not hire those Einstein's when I need my body guarded okay?

Now, for the closer... What exactly is going on with the "stars"? Are they going in for "re-education" or what? What will they be afterward that they weren't already, and what will their next assignments be when they return to us?

It makes one wonder what poor Robert Downey Jr. did to make the powers that be so angry that they had to set him up this last time? Nearly everyone of his close friends seemed shocked when this last incident happened because they all say he was clean.

Who was it that actually called the police and alerted them to his whereabouts that particular evening, and why? Hardly the act of a friend, don't you think? David Kelly was very quick to dismiss Robert from Ally McBeal, he hadn't even been formally charged. So what gives? Maybe Mister Downey was wide awake and possibly able to cause some real trouble.

So many possibilities and so little time, gauging by the hyper-activity of those in the shadows.