How did this happen? What began as the silliest gossip item of the week — irritating celebrity blogger Perez Hilton and overexposed Black-Eyed Pea will.i.am’s  brawl outside a Toronto hotel — has somehow transformed itself into an opportunity to discuss some of the biggest issues in feminism and gay rights

Gawker is reporting that Michael Jackson has died. No, this is not gadgety, other than the fact that Thriller was my first album … . OK, that’s not gadgety either. Gawker