Mel Gibson thinks his arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic tirade earlier this year was "a gift" because it made him reevaluate his life and "focus on a couple of things." Like, perhaps, not hating Jews? According to Mel:

"It's working out real positive, and hopefully in other lives that I'll touch." The "Mad Max" star also blames the media for hyping the negative. "Unfortunately I think it's become more of a trend," he said. "After all, it sells more newspapers to actually focus on and identify someone and sometimes it gets out of hand. I think the balance is way off, but that's the way it is and you can't change that. ... Everybody goofs, everybody screws up and I tell ya, if you ask everybody in the world to raise their hand if they never said something vicious, something that they regretted or something stupid, there wouldn't be many people that wouldn't be able to raise their hands."

Yeah Mel, everyone goofs up sometimes. "Oopsy, I got drunk and accidentally cussed out Jews again - My bad!" I seem to do that a lot. I think it's the whole seven days of gift giving that really sets me off. What's that? It's eight days?!? Now that's just plain cocky. Isn't controlling the Trilateral Commission enough for you guys?