Sorry Vincent,but the Jackson family MOST DEFINITELY can keep secrets! Hints, police reports, media items and have leaked most things.

But, in hindsight, I was giving allowances for MJ that I wouldn’t give to any other person in this world.

Watched most of the doc last night and it’s pretty chilling. I have complicated feelings about it, but I believe these victims’ stories. More to your point, this morning I remembered the Chappelle’s Show skit that, especially in retrospect, highlighted (intentionally, I think) the general public’s willful ignorance/…

The issue of MJ and the current movement of calling out abusers is so difficult, personally. Young people do not understand how impactful Michael was to us old folks and how his music transcends time.

It’s so hard because he’s been in our lives for so much... but that presence is how he’s been able to get away with the shit he did. I think the parallels between R Kelly and him are apt - what makes one easier than the other? R Kelly basically singing about the shit he was doing? R Kelly not having as big a…

I think the sad truth is that a lot of his defenders are also victims of sexual abuse in their own lives. They have to call it a lie otherwise they have to come to terms with what was done to them.

Same. Also, we had childhood sexual abuse in my family. (Not my predator, the predator of my aunts and a cousin.) The aunts, to this very day, speak in glowing terms about their father, who raped them as children. The cousin, when she spoke out, was essentially turned into persona non grata. It wasn’t any of their…

We all saw Michael with them kids and knew it was creepy and problematic AF.

It is terrifying.

Maybe because I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, but for some reason I have always believed he was guilty. Always. I loved Michael as a musician; grew up on the Jackson 5; had a total crush on him; was in total breathtaking awe when Thriller came out, and I saw the video; and still to this day talk about his…

I can’t argue with any of what you said. She makes me less informed; fills me with self-loathing and shame. Still, she entertains, and is thus the definition of a guilty pleasure. So sentence me (no don’t - I live in a prison of my own making, evidently).

She’s a gossip monger who got a show because she has an audience that likes gossip.

I wish her the best, but that story had more holes than Swiss cheese.

Quite honestly, I was reading this and thinking that that old saying that people get more conservative as they age might just be wrong. It might simply be that their cognitive function declines to the point that anything more complex than “We must all recognize the Islam is a dangerous element in our society due to…

Joe Ricketts, a self-made billionaire, has the internal computing power and exact political views of my ex-neighbor George, an alcoholic carpet installer who started smoking cigarettes in his 40's and has 5 DUI’s and a set of trucknutz.

This is my Trumper uncle’s emails. Imagine the stuff he could ruin and race wars he could start if he only had access to billions of dollars.

Being a racist asshole sure seems exhausting.

To clarify, I don’t find it offensive to refer to any news site or outlet as African American or Jewish if that is indeed what they are and how they describe themselves (and I wasn’t trying to imply that one should find that offensive), but I find it inappropriate to have a double standard in regards to which outlets…

I disagree, Maiysha. While you may have attempted to provide an even handed view, it seems there is a bias/ double standard that you exhibit. You mentioned several media outlets in your article - Elle, News One, USA Today, NYT, Daily Beast, Tablet, The Forward - yet you only felt the need to inform your readers of the…

A certain privilege comes when you are married to someone, that in turn absolves you of having absolute guilt by association. Furthermore, Hillary DID face accusations of hypocrisy (mostly from the right) off of Bill’s actions.