Fio Votes "Not Guilty"

Let Fio make herself clear. She is not at all interested in the Conrad Murray trial. As far as she's concerned. Michael Jackson killed himself, and it was a long, slow, suicide occurring over his last twenty years.

The media is trying to make another Casey Anthony event out of it, but Conrad Murray is not Casey Anthony. He's more like a deer in the headlights, a struggling doctor who was targeted by Jackson because he'd be compliant with all Jacko's strange medical demands. And now he's the family's scapegoat, the villain who deprived them of the money-machine son who had already cut himself off from them.

Jackson is actually is more profitable dead than alive. Nostalgia sells, especially if the performer isn't showing up in supermarket headlines doing something weird every time you turn around. Especially if he isn't going on worldwide spending sprees. Especially if every one of his family members can score a TV interview out if it.

Lay off Murray. Michael Jackson's the villain, not Conrad Murray.

Questionable Snippets

Why does Michael Jackson's family keep delaying his funeral? Do they think he's gonna rise again?
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How long do you think it's gonna be till The Sun runs a story saying that Michael faked his death, that he's actually living in Nova Scotia under a different name?
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Have you noticed how the media, which previously delighted in running the most bizarre photos of Jacko they could get, are now using the ones that are more flattering? Think they're afraid he might pull a THRILLER on them?

The Children

Fiorella is not too interested in who killed Michael Jackson, that is, who slipped the final needle in his arm. As far as she's concerned, he killed himself long ago.

But what she does care about is the welfare of "his" three children. Have they had any education at all? Have they been taught to read, to write, to do basic arithmetic? Do they know anything about history or science? Can they interact with other children?

Five will get you ten that within ten years at least one of them will write a tell-all book--and it won't be pretty.

Aha!

It's come out now that Michael Jackson is not the biological father of his three children--as if anyone who had a basic knowledge of genetics ever thought they were.

But the shocker is that Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother either, just a hired surrogate.

Now we know. Pubic opinion wouldn't stand for him palling around with any more young children, so he bought some and grew them. They were his possessions, and now that their owner is dead, they will probably be discarded. I wish them well, poor lambs.

Dead Icon

Michael Jackson, who would not have wanted to be fifty years old anyway, is dead. Let the legend begin.

Now at last people can listen to his music without their consciences being bothered by his relationships with young boys. Dead musicians, like dead authors, are harmless and thus can be reborn guilt-free (unlike dead politicians, who seem to acquire ever more stink the longer they lie in the grave).

But what about "his" children? Their lives have been so bizarre. Is there any hope for them at all?