The Sheila Variations

Still no cable from the taxi driver?

I saw part of it, and I don't think he was helped. He still comes across as a creepy pedophile who doesn't understand he's doing anything wrong.

That said, I officially still don't care about this story. Nope, not one bit.

My interest in it is ghoulish, as I freely admit.

It is a "slow down to get a better look at the accident" story.

Exactly. A garish spectacle of awful-ness.

This doesn't mean that I don't feel awful for the little kids who have been molested by him ...

This ALSO doesn't mean that I don't think those little kids have idiots for parents.

I blame the parents too, they have to have heard the previous allegations and they still let their kids stay overnight? Are they just stupid, or is this a "molest my kid and I hit the jackpot, baby!" thing?

If his sleeping in the same room as children is purely innocent, why doesn't he ever have any girls over?

I never saw it, but he's made claims of police brutality...whatever, Mike.

I heard too that he was making claims of racism towards the cops who arrested him.

I read someone - I think it was a blogger - who said, "Last time I checked, Mike, molesting a kid was wrong for white people too."

As you say: Whatever, Mike.

If he's already playing the race card, it's a bad sign for him.

I love his claims of "mistreatment". Like the police are going to mistreat a rich and famous suspect while his high-powered lawyer is in the same room.

He got far better treatment than any other accused child molestor. If it had been me, they'd have had the Las Vegas police pick me up. Then I would have been in a holding cell awaiting extradition, with 15 others guys who know what I'm in there for. Then I would have been hauled back here and tossed in county until my arraignment.

I wouldn't have walked out of the police station 90 minutes after surrendering.

Sorry, but I can't jump on the bandwagon on this one.

MJ is a freak, but being a freak is not yet illegal.

He may well have had a reason to settle the first case, either he did it or he could not prove that he had not done it.

From what I have seen of this one so far, the case stinks on ice.

And, MJ was very stupid if he put himself in a position where he could be plausibly accused of another molestation case. In other words, if he is guilty, he is dealing with a compulsion that overrides not just right and wrong but also self-preservation.

Ted K.

Frankly, Jackson should have been arrested again for whatever it was he was wearing during the interview. And what's with the hair and makeup? If he winds up going to jail, looking like a white woman is not going to work out well.

but SER, Michael said it himself years ago in one of his songs:

"It doesn't matter if you're black or white..." :)

but somehow - i think it DOES matter to him.

I do have questions about the prosecution's case, seems to me the family of the accuser isn't very stable to say the least. Although that can be looked at from the perspective that often an abuser targets unstable children who are easily victimized. "If" Michael isn't guilty, he's not helping himself any by continuing to sleep with (well in the same room as he puts it, not in the bed itself) children, and openly admitting it, putting himself as a target for more accusations. I really don't think he has any real world common sense, and it shows immensely through his behavior.