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Wacko Jacko's Baby Blanket: It's been a year to the day, since Michael Jackson dangled one of his sons named Prince Michael (he has two sons named Prince Michael) over the balcony of a hotel. To avoid the confusion he created with identical names for his boys, the dangled child is officially Prince Michael II and Wacko Jacko calls him Blanket. The boys aren't alone with their naming problems. Michael Jackson named his only daughter Paris long before anyone had a clue that name for a girl would be synonymous with an incredibly rich, overexposed, screwed up, heiress and worse.

In the year since the infamous Blanket baby dangling incident, the King of Pop has been trying to keep what's left of his nose clean. But, again he is under investigation by police and district attorneys in the jurisdiction of his spread in California. As we speak, authorities are executing a search warrant at Neverland Ranch. Neverland is a name taken from the children's novel Peter Pan, from which a Peter Pan Syndrome has been coined in pop psychology affecting men who never grow up. According to reports, the search warrant has something to do with more allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with a pubescent young boy.

Over many years and in connection with several allegations, Michael Jackson has asserted in his statements that he has never, and would never, treat a child inappropriately or expose them to any harm and totally refutes any suggestions to the contrary. He maintains that he would never betray the trust that a child, or their parents, might place in him.

But, it's really difficult for any of us to know the true nature of Michael Jackson's relationships: his mysterious relationships with the women in his life, his bizarre relationships with his children by some of those women, and his anonymous relationships with a seemingly neverending roster of young boys who overnight at Neverland. What to make of Michael Jackson's personal relationships? According to Michael, all these relationships have something to do with love.

Well, you gotta love this. A commentary concerning the current allegations against Michael Jackson on the MSNBC website features typical banner ads that load randomly. Such ads can be keyed to words in the text on the page to associate appropriate content for the advertiser. Often, words are complicated and have subtle meanings (relationship) and, sometimes, the adverts associated with the words on a web page strain credulity. In very rare cases, one sees a fleeting banner ad that suits perfectly the subject matter of the article, with unintended associations. On this anniversary of the Michael Jackson baby dangling incident, and in the context of the MSNBC article commenting on the most recent allegations of sexual abuse of a 12 year old boy, we saw this Citibank ad:


But it's always good to be reminded that, "Relationships are based on trust."

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