This Week in the News

Six days on, the death of the fanatically eccentric Michael Jackson continues to dominate news around the globe. It seems the tabloids can’t stop till they get enough juicy fallout gossip, and the legacy of the stars own peccadilloes ensures they won’t have to.

It has emerged that the man in the mirror’s daily drug regime reads longer than Lemmy’s Sunday brunch rider. This has cast aspersions on a clique of private medical personnel responsible for administering such a smorgasbord of good vibrations. On that many man-made chemicals even I could think I’d manage fifty dates at the O2.

Looks like the inheritance and custody struggle is all going to get a bit nasty though, a bit like Brewster’s Millions but without the kind and reassuring chubby face of John Candy.

But hey, when all’s said and done, a great song and dance man should be remembered as such, with neither the personal denigration nor the over-inflated hysterical hyperbole we are currently embroiled by.

On a lighter note, research by fertility doctors in Australia shows that daily sex helps to keep sperm spry.

Dr David Greening of Wollongong, Sydney, claims that regular intercourse helps flush out old damaged sperm. Sounds kind of like Logan’s Run meets When Harry Met Sally to me, but hey, who are we to argue with the experts?