He’s Really Sick

Michael Jackson “Really Was Sick” Judge Says [Reuters.com]. It’s a good thing juries decide these cases, because Jacko’s “flu-like symptoms” hardly justify a week-long delay in jury selection in his child abuse trial. It’s also probably a really stupid defense tactic, as it allowed the jury pool to watch ABC’s “Michael Jackson’s Secret World” last Thursday night, with all its pedophelia overtones and weird behaviors, filmed and otherwise, about the pop music legend. And remember, the child by his side at that 2002 interview — where Jackson unabashedly spoke about sharing his bed with young boys — is the same boy who is now the centerpiece of this criminal trial.

Maybe the judge got the tense wrong. It’s not that Jackson was really sick last week, it’s that he is really sick.