Does not compute

I'm sorry, but I'm pissed by this story.

So they're once again giving movies credit for people's behaviour?

Seriously, people. Movies/music/TV or whatever might give people ideas as to how they're going to do something they were already planning to do, but it sure as fuck isn't going to make them up and do it out of the blue. I'm a huge fan of Dexter, however I'm not about to start murdering the local bogan fuckwits scattered about the deep Adelaide south because of it.

It's a tragedy that this prisoner felt that suicide was his only way out. I certainly don't have all the facts behind this man's actions, but perhaps he could have decided instead to get treatment for his alcoholism and ... you know ... stop hitting his wife. I'm not a mental health expert by any means, but I refuse to accept that you can blame a movie for this.

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They didn't. Did they?

I have been reluctant to add to the outpourings over the death of Michael Jackson, but sharing this article has proved irresistible - probably because it's so twisted.

For example:

"This week at his memorial, his brothers and sisters gathered to support and to mourn the passing of their talented sibling. In the photos of those difficult times, it is immediately apparent that whatever it was that was different about Michael, it probably wasn’t genetic. His eldest brother Jackie is a thick-set man with broad shoulders, Tito has a solid, masculine figure, Jermaine shares the manly physiques of his older brothers and combines it with a chiselled jaw, Marlon and Randy have similar builds and Marlon usually wears a thick
moustache.

The surviving images of the great castrati of history suggest that
castrati do not physically develop in the same way as other boys. The absence of testosterone as they grow not only affects their ribs, it also prevents them developing the other typical physical characteristics of grown men — body hair, broad shoulders and most significantly, a manly voice. A study in mice also found that castrating mice leads to depigmentation of their skin. Although this finding is hardly conclusive, it provides an intriguing explanation for the significant depigmentation of his skin.

The lack of women (or men) who claim to have slept with Michael Jackson seems surprising given his level of celebrity, and it appears that none of his children were naturally conceived. Michael Jackson kept his private life intensely private, which was his prerogative. But is it possible that his unusual love and s-x life was as much a result of a physical inability to engage in sexual intimacy as it was about sexual preference? He clearly enjoyed the company of children.

Could this have been the result of a preference for the simpler, more honest level at which children communicate, free of the temptations and complications of sexual desire? Perhaps children were more his physical and emotional equals than the adults in his life. They at least spoke with similar voices."

You've got to love a good conspiracy theory, especially one that seems completely implausible.

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