Dominic Holden

I’m a Michael Jackson fan.  There, I said it. Now, as a fan — and therefore a lightweight authority on the man — I can insist that Michael Jackson is endearingly the weirdest person on earth. As such, the chronicles of his life make for a good read.

I set up a “Michael Jackson” news alert so Google would email me “news” in daily digest form with respect to his activity — which mostly amount to exploitive speculation. But good reading.

Journalist Jamie Foster Brown, was left stunned by Michael Jackson’s well-behaved kids during a recent trip to Japan with the pop superstar, who’s currently being tipped to play at Scotland’s ‘retro fest’ music concerts

The Sister 2 Sister boss was invited to “observe” Michael Jackson and his family during their recent stay in Tokyo and came away feeling very impressed with his polite kids Prince Michael, 10, Paris, nine, and his youngest: five ear-old Prince Michael II.

You’ll notice the African American man in the photo below.

Here are his children, recently, as claimed by said exploitive speculator…

Oh, they look like angels. Little. Blond. Angels. Of course they’re well behaved, they aren’t related to the weirdest man in the world. But can they sing and dance?

From today’s New York Times:

The unexpected outcry about the proposed construction of a wall around a Sunni Arab neighborhood has revealed the depths of Iraqi frustration with the petty humiliations created by the new security plan intended to protect them.

“My view of Maliki has changed since I heard of this news, and we hope he would be able to carry out this decision,” to stop the wall’s construction, said Um Mohammed, a teacher in Adhamiya.

Good Lord, haven’t we already been through this? The last time a wall divided a war-torn city only one good thing came of it.

I’ve always harbored a warm affection for the Dominican Republic. The name–there’s a ring to it somehow. But all travel plans are off…

National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) director Rafael Ramirez said he agrees with firing against suspicious aircraft that violate Dominican airspace as a preventive measure against drug trafficking and terrorism, as the Presidency’s Adviser on Drugs Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) recommends.

Holy fucking shit. You mean, a plane with a broken transponder flies toward their little island they just start shooting? This can’t help tourism.

The official said that thanks to the anti-drugs summit held recently in the country, with international cooperation and coordination, the amount of drugs that enter Dominican territory fell by as much as 90%.

The number of people that enter the Dominican Territory probably fell by 90%, too. And what do we call them? Visitors, survivors, swimmers?

Look, everybody, I’m a cowboy!