Troublesome '06

Surely some cultural milestone has been crossed, with the news that Tupac Shakur will now be joining the ranks or the luminaries and infamous who inhabit Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas.

In which category does he belong?

Tupac was waxed ten years ago, in another sense. But now legions of families from Tulsa on a break from running up credit debt at the tables can try and find the unifying theme between this headbanded innovator of West Coast rap, Princess Di, and Dracula. History is brimming with bad guys who might have been good guys. And Tussaud's features these folks, frozen in time. But somehow I don't think this new display will capture that fatal moment when the bullets tore through the limo door as Messrs. Shakur and Knight cruised the strip after the Tyson fight.

God bless the dead.