I was raised with Michael Jackson and still love his music, but my mom explained the molestation accusations and trial so I grew up knowing that he was fucked up and a terrible person. So it hurt even more to hear my dad blame the “greedy” parents who “wanted a payout”. I can feel nostalgic for Michael Jackson’s music…

The guy was a joke the day before he died and then he died and people did a 180 on him like I’ve never seen with anyone. I’m still amazed that it keeps going on today.

I used to think he was a damaged individual who may not have necessarily molested children but wanted a very inappropriate level of intimacy with them (which is not that much better) but now...ick.

I have to wonder how many who knew actually cared. A father of two once told me, “Thriller was awesome. We lost something really special when he died. I don’t care that he touched kids, nobody’s perfect.” I died a little bit when I heard him say that... :(

I’m thinking about his kids having to hear this.

Isn’t possession of child porn in itself a crime? Why wasn’t he arrested if the police found all that stuff?

Seriously. There are no words for how disgusting and inexcusable that is.

Right? I feel like I could have lived the rest of my life just not knowing that information at all. :-/

Well, holy fuck.

Small time traffic offenses can hem people up, big time. I am military and so many of our Soldiers get tickets/ suspensions/ fines, which are often sent to their home of record (not where they actually live) so if their parents don’t forward the mail they might never know they are in trouble. We have Soldiers get…

I know! They really sell this country as the land of freedom really well. I was discussing with two friends of mine, one Chinese mathematician, one Iranian PhD student how republicans have tried to silence climate change research, defunded gun violence research and now want to stop stem cell research and they were so…

The house was being monitored for drug activity, doesn’t say it was known drug activity. And, yes, they found drugs. That’s not what’s being argued. What I think is being argued is that cops shouldn’t search you just because they think you “look” like you might have drugs, there should be an actual reason. In this…

Your words are sad. Sorry our country sucks so much. There are great things about it, too, of course, but anything and everything having to do with the law, courts, judges, etc., is fucked beyond.

Leaving a house with known drug activity isn’t against the law. Guilt by association is unconstitutional.

Sotomayor is, as always, wonderful, and one of the best writers on the Court. And Breyer yet again joins the conservatives on search and seizure issues, since he is more statist than the other three liberal members of the court (reflexively siding with the government isn’t a good thing for all issues).

I have been trying to read The New Jim Crow for maybe 8 months now. Every time I pick it up, I read about 10 pages, then I get so sad and discouraged with our system I have to put it down. It’s been a huge blow to the confidence I had in the US. After coming here from Mexico, I really thought it was a fair place, but…

I always thought Obama and my dad were forehead twins, but he’s taken on my dad’s “gramps” style as well! Although my dad is a Blatino from the Midwest and thus wears a lot more patterned linen and a lot less undershirt.

Agree. I feel like he and his family deserve a huge apology from us. We should skywrite “Please forgive us” on the day he leaves DC.

Will Hill and Bill retake the white house with a lanniester-esque fury, republicans are gonna wish they had the obama’s back

There is no doubt in my mind that he IS going to be remembered as one of the best presidents we’ve had. Thank you, Mr. President.