The old folk saying about “it happens in threes” often gets applied to celebrity deaths. Well, today it’s true. After Ed McMahon’s death a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/23/MNCR18C4UR.DTL"earlier this week/a, then Farah Fawcett’s a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/23/MNCR18C4UR.DT"expected passing/abr /and a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-06-25-jackson-obit_N.htm"Michael Jackson’s surprise death/a is the third.br /br /All three mean something.br /br /First, with Farrah, I’m the right age that she was pin-up material when I was in junior high school. And Charlie’s Angels was definitely watchable.br /br /Michael Jackson? Thriller broke out when I was in college; that part of Jackson, before he plunged into the drained shallow end of the pool of weirdness, means nostalgia.br /br /So, too, does Ed. Nostalgia for the “simpler time” of America, the time of my parents more than myself.br /br /At the same time, per my own self and people like Bob Carroll at a href="http://www.skepdic.com"Skeptic’s Dictionary/a, the “this happens in threes” is nothing more than an illustration of the bulls-eye fallacy.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-1520075393580569125?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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