Extreme distaste

Good on you, Geoff. Quite correct and the majority view. What is even more distasteful is the so called "lying in state", a sort of Irish wake without the whiskey. It has even been compared with the death of Princess Di.

This whole episode with the followers, the groupies and the ululating, demonstrates just how the Christ myth became the word. Fortunately, Michael Jackson will not even rate a footnote in history, not even musical history.