Did Pills Kill Michael Jackson? [Dept. of Probably]
MJ is up in heaven now. No doubt playing a backgammon tournament with Heath Ledger and Farrah Fawcett, trading pill stories and doubling like mad. I don’t know for sure that pills killed Mike, but I feel like it’s a cultural given. More than 8,000 people will die this year from pills. Pills laid low Elvis, and delayed Eminem’s last album four years. When you’re rich and cut off from all contact with the outside world, the doctor is still allowed by your bed. He’ll give you whatever you want.
The toxicology reports on MJ will take weeks, and it’s not even clear whether it’s moral to dig into them. But it goes without saying that if you are rich and in trouble in America, it’s probably LEGAL pills that you’re chomping.
