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So Michael Jackson is innocent again. Whatever.
And Mike Tyson is an exemplary sportsman, Bill Clinton never had sexual relations with that woman and OJ is going to find the _real_ killers.
I was discussing our personal verdicts with my wife the other day. She thinks it's best to stay away from passing those kind of judgements on anyone. That's her catholic schoolgirl upbringing I guess. It's a little disturbing that she is right _so_ often. But she does have that adorable little streak in her. The one that breeds an innocent mischeif.
She encapsulated her opinion diplomatically by saying if she were in a situation where she had a choice of whether or not to leave our children with Michael for even a few minutes, she would favor the stongest part of "no fuckin' way" without even a second thought.
Me, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. Half of me says Michael is still a child. His Peter Pan complex is severely enabled by his obscenely rich and disconnected decision making psyche. He believes he's 'loving' the children...innocently 'loving' minors. Alone. In bed and in multiple other compromising and damaging scenarios. The other half says that he is extremely ill and needs to be reeled in a little bit because even a challenged child would have the sense to avoid the types of opportunities extorting pre-teen boys are ingenius enough to exploit into multi-million dollar settlements. I admitted that I was torn.
At that moment, my 3 year old son, who had been playing with his toys on the floor in front of us, blurts out "Mommy, I know what Michael Jackson says!"
"What does he say?" We had no idea that he had been listening in but apparently he wanted to submit his knowledge on the topic.
He says "Beat it. Michael Jackson says beat it."
We laughed and agreed.
And Mike Tyson is an exemplary sportsman, Bill Clinton never had sexual relations with that woman and OJ is going to find the _real_ killers.
I was discussing our personal verdicts with my wife the other day. She thinks it's best to stay away from passing those kind of judgements on anyone. That's her catholic schoolgirl upbringing I guess. It's a little disturbing that she is right _so_ often. But she does have that adorable little streak in her. The one that breeds an innocent mischeif.
She encapsulated her opinion diplomatically by saying if she were in a situation where she had a choice of whether or not to leave our children with Michael for even a few minutes, she would favor the stongest part of "no fuckin' way" without even a second thought.
Me, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. Half of me says Michael is still a child. His Peter Pan complex is severely enabled by his obscenely rich and disconnected decision making psyche. He believes he's 'loving' the children...innocently 'loving' minors. Alone. In bed and in multiple other compromising and damaging scenarios. The other half says that he is extremely ill and needs to be reeled in a little bit because even a challenged child would have the sense to avoid the types of opportunities extorting pre-teen boys are ingenius enough to exploit into multi-million dollar settlements. I admitted that I was torn.
At that moment, my 3 year old son, who had been playing with his toys on the floor in front of us, blurts out "Mommy, I know what Michael Jackson says!"
"What does he say?" We had no idea that he had been listening in but apparently he wanted to submit his knowledge on the topic.
He says "Beat it. Michael Jackson says beat it."
We laughed and agreed.
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