Right Or Left
I find it quite amusing, actually saddening, to see the "Reverends" Sharpton and Jackson jockeying for position in the Michael Jackson saga. First, before "MJ's" body had begun to cool, Sharpton has a press conference saying that he wants to bring Michael back to the Apollo to be memorialized. Do you really think the press wanted to know what he was doing and sought him out. I don't think so, I would bet, if I were a betting man, that he called the press to his side. Then a day or two later, "OLE" Jesse shows up in front of the camera. It really would be comical if it weren't really sad that these two make their living this way. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, did something quite similar. Mark 35 records them asking Jesus a favor to allow one to sit at his right hand and the other on his left. Obviously they understood the importance of the position. They knew it put them above the others. But they did not understand the cost associated to...