Great Moments in Lawyering

Michael Jackson's attorney has announced that Jacko will end his slumber parties with young kids and their families, "because it makes him vulnerable to false charges," not to mention true ones.

Mesereau said he believes that Jackson will continue to be "a convenient target for people who want to extract money or build careers at his expense."

Good advice. The question remains, however, whether Jackson will follow it.

I watched about a half an hour of the network special interview with Michael Jackson and I was convinced that this guy's life is a tragedy, and a sickening one at that. What kind of healthy person has his face whittled to the point where he looks like it was burned off and was reconstructed by heroic surgeons. Hannibal Lecter couldn't have maimed him any more than he has done to himself. Doesn't the name of his estate, Neverland, tell you anything about his development? The fact that he invites young boys into his home for slumber parties, whether he molests them or not, suggests that he strongly identifies with Petter Pan, the boy would refused to grow up and led a gang called the Lost Boys. [Follow that link to see what I'm talking about.]

Give him time. He'll backslide.