MJ

(sigh)

You either love him or you hate him. You either believe that his own childlike persona and naivete perpetuated his questionable behavior around children not his own or you believe he was a truly sick puppy. Either way, Michael Jackson's legacy will forever be a cloudy one.

There's no doubt he was an entertainer with no equal. You couldn't help but be mesmerized by his incredible moves and his stick-in-your-head tunes. But his "eccentricities" raised eyebrows, and the "where there's smoke there's fire" questions surrounding his acquittal on child molestation charges forever dogged him.

I watched some of the memorial service for him yesterday, and I was moved by some of it and disgusted by some. Al Sharpton's five-minute rant about Jackson's civil rights contributions had to have offended Martin Luther King, Jr.'s children, since Sharpton pretty much credited Jackson with everything King had done in the sixties. It was ridiculous. Sharpton's such a pimp anyway. He was over-the-top and downright distasteful.

"BAD."

(sigh)