What Happened to the 80's?

My previous two posts got me thinking about the 1980's. It was a really awesome, fun, over-the-top decade, but what happened to it? A disproportionate number of stars from the day are gone, recluses, tragedy stricken, or straight-up crazy!

Let's just take a look at some of the 80's icons (seriously, I don't even have to write punchlines for these people; their names say it all):

Madonna

Mike Tyson

Tom Cruise

Michael J. Fox

Sylvester Stallone

Eddie Murphy

Cher

Farrah Fawcett

Van Halen (EVERYBODY in the band)

and the biggest star of them all Michael Jackson.

That's not even counting big, but not quite life-altering stars:

Patrick Swayze

Hulk Hogan

Mr. T

Kirk Cameron

David Hasselhoff

Nell Carter

Entire cast of Diff'rent Strokes

Isiah Thomas

Christopher Reeves

Bo Jackson

Sam Kinison

Andrew "Dice" Clay

Dudley Moore

Paul Ruebens a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman

Whitney Houston

Mel Gibson

It's clear Magic Johnson made a deal with the devil. If he allowed Earvin to continue living and become a business king, he would strike down all other stars from the 80's.

Is there one person who thought Prince would be the most normal guy from the 80's in the year 2009?

Headlines are here:

Kevin Jonas is engaged. First MJ, now this! I can only take so much heartbreak.

Kevin Jonas is getting married. Luckily it makes good business sense--his fiancee is Minny Mouse.

Don't worry, even though Kevin Jonas is getting married, he'll still make crappy music and star as a 14 year old in Disney Channel original movies.

GM told it's investors today to not buy their stock. Yeah, I think they probably got that message about 6 months ago.

GM says to not buy it's stock. Hey GM, if you're just realizing this NOW, it's no wonder you are bankrupt.

GM says "Don't buy our stock... Instead please, PLEASE buy our cars!"

And now a little video that I can't get out of my head:

Tomorrow: Health Care: What should we do? Leave a comment today, and I'll talk about it tomorrow.