In the culmination of the most star-studded, avidly watched trial of the century this month, musical phenomenon and alleged pedophile Michael Jackson was completely acquitted of all counts. I hope you won't think less of me when I say I'm disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, it's not because I think he was guilty of child molestation, giving alcohol to a minor, the deliberate release of "HIStory," and the other equally heinous charges. I have absolutely no clue if he did any of it - I'm pretty sure I wasn't there, unless someone got me really drunk -- and so I have to assume the jury found sufficient reason to doubt the accusations. Fair enough.
Nor is it because this verdict was a surprising, almost unprecedented refutation of the most hallowed law of American jurisprudence, "Dude's a freakjob with a monkey, right? Of course he's guilty!" (Cited by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2002, United States v. That Guy Over There).
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I can't claim "Gangsta Pop" as my own, although I did think of it before I knew it had been used already. I found references to that term online, but not in any official or widespread way. Still, if Michael took it up...
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