TTLA failed to find many think tanks posting about the life and death of Michael Jackson.
The best local bet figured to be the pop-culture-interested, Jay-Z quoting lads at the Prometheus Institute, which is headquartered downtown, a few blocks from Staples Center. No luck.
Nothing apparent from Reason. Same for Ayn Rand. (Although, the ARI homepage does link to this Farrah Fawcet-related piece.)
Not unexpectedly, RAND and Milken are also seemingly silent.
Nationally, the San Francisco Chronicle quotes one tanker bemoaning the King of Pop media focus shunting health care debate.
And one more deep reach from the Internets...
Here's a six-or-so-year-old post from a Hamilton (New York) College lecture series that includes an MJ-Martha Stewart comparison.
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It must be frustrating for the tanks to have the most important healthcare debate in our nation's history be muted by the death of a celebrity, but Krugman and RAND will have their day again soon.