'King of Pop' goes all Diana on us...

Well, that's going to spark several days of national mourning, more's the pity.

I have sympathy for Jackson's family and friends - at this point in time the world will just have fallen away from beneath their feet. The coming days and weeks will be full of pain for them.

For the rest of us, though (that's the vast majority of the world who have never even met the guy), we have no right at all to show such overblown levels of 'me too', self pitying grief. Oh, poor us, some bloke who sang a few good songs died. So what?

You know what I'll be mourning today? The death of proportionate and appropriate response.