Dear citizens of the world:

Yesterday, I attended a Houston Astros game. During the seventh inning stretch, Miguel Tejada was interviewed on the Jumbotron with wacky music and graphics. Who do you most want to meet, Miguel Tejada? The response: I would like to meet Michael Jackson, followed by the appearance of a picture of Michael Jackson standing next to Miguel Tejada bouncing back and forth.

Hilarious! The in-stadium clip editor put this together before he died, and nobody caught it!

Nope. Immediately after this, the image changed to Michael Jackon's picture from the album cover to "Thriller" while the title track played over the loudspeaker.  The caption? Thank you Michael!! 25,000 people stood and applauded for a full thirty seconds.

They were, like the rest of the world, standing and applauding for a man who used his wealth and fame to molest children and manipulate the children's parents and the legal system.

This is not a footnote, or an asterisk to the career of a musical genius. While acknowledging that there are times that it is unfair to define a man by the worst thing he ever did, there is a threshold over which this must become the case. Serial child molestation, in my humble opinion, meets this threshold. The music career in the asterisk. So please excuse me, society, if while you stand and applaud for this man, I sit on my hands. It's a habit I got into as a child when I heard Jackson's name.