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The fellow's talent and regrettable mistakes stemmed from traumatic abuse. If anything, people should view him as a pivotal example as to why we need a better understanding of the effects of emotional abuse on children, and the sometimes awful...
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Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
What I find more deplorable than pedophilia itself ( not that I believe this fellow to be a pedophile, as that is contingent with the above ethical debate concerning the connection between art and real harm) is the fact that...
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(Somehow this got in the Jesus thread) I assume alkaline batteries are still permitted? How will this affect medical devices, such as glucose monitors for diabetics?...
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WalterBillington commented on RIP Michael Jackson
@114 ... erm, is there an insider thing going on here? I'd hate that, it would look geeky. Otherwise, your abstraction is one or two levels beyond my capacities or cultural knowledge. I'd love you to clarify. ... It might be this - I didn't say racist, I said bigot. And bigotry means adherence to a belief, or rejection of other persepectives, based on some or other prejudice, prediliction or desire. That is to say, in the absence of evidence. Ahhhh .... evidence. Nasty little fact of life there. Evidence. Not suspician, "ideas", media proof, gossip, chat, boasting, braggard's words,...
dd528 commented on RIP Michael Jackson
@ 121: But he was enormously overrated. He sold lots of records. To junior-high-school kids. He already got way more praise during his lifetime than was warranted by his actual artistic output, much less his offstage behavior. I think you fail to understand the importance of Michael Jackson's art to R&B and dance music, and to the music industry in general, let alone to his millions of fans. Before Michael Jackson, black artists didn't get played on MTV. Before Michael Jackson, they didn't put black artists on the cover of Rolling Stone. Before Michael Jackson, the notion of an artist...
Antinous / Moderator commented on RIP Michael Jackson
Before Michael Jackson, black artists didn't get played on MTV. Michael Jackson, born August 29, 1958, started performing 1967. MTV, born August 1, 1981. Huh?...
Sea Daddy commented on RIP Michael Jackson
Why is this news? He was a pedophile that bought his way out of prosecution. Many people died today that were far better persons than him, perhaps not famous, but then again, they didn't rape little boys. I simply say good riddance. He now has to answer to THE highest authority, and He can't be bought....
joanna commented on RIP Michael Jackson
@#129 et al: I sing in several projects (though never a choir); I am a musician in several bands; I think I have some respect from musician colleagues and decent tastes (Bach, sushi and Weird Al counted highly among them); I live and work in NYC. MJ is one of my favorite performers, truly the last of the great song and dance men who rose to fame in such a specific moment in rock history that will never come around again, and his death has impacted me profoundly because his life and work did. He meant a lot to many,...

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