Jacko Innocent After All?

DECEMBER 9--A confidential investigation by Los Angeles police and child welfare officials concluded earlier this year that allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused a cancer-stricken boy were "unfounded," according to an internal government memo obtained by The Smoking Gun. ( Read more... )

Go ahead and throw stuff at me, but I can't help hoping that he really is innocent. Though even if he is publicly exonerated, a great many people will believe he got away with it.

Bad, Bad News from the Eastern Front

Conclusive Proof Discovered That C.S. Lewis Was Anglican

Oxford, England, UK -- In a move that has bummed Orthodox converts all over the English-speaking world, researchers at Oxford University have conclusively proved that famed author and philologist C(live) S(taples) Lewis was, in fact, Anglican and not Orthodox, in spite of the fact that his closest friends called him "Jack." ( Read more... )

Sincerest condolences to many here on LJ.

Squealing? Squealing?

"In a 1994 interview with a Milwaukee Journal reporter, Weakland discussed his belief that true pedophilia among priests was rare. Instead, most of the priests who had trouble were attracted to teenage boys, he said -- relationships he referred to as ‘affairs.’ ‘What happens so often in those cases is that they go on for a few years and then the boy gets a little older and the perpetrator loses interest,’ Weakland told a reporter. ‘Then is when the squealing comes in....’"