Michael Jackson’s sick baby-dangling stunt is front-page tabloid news in New York today (see here and here). It occurs to me that this odious freak probably rarely handles his children (which is a good thing). Nobody who has kids holds babies like that going down the stairs, much less standing at the edge of a balcony. You learn quickly that little bitties wriggle so much that they could easily slip such a casual grip. Only a man with little experience holding babies would make such a stupid mistake. Another thought: if Jackson had held a puppy out over the crowd like that, it would have been an even bigger scandal. A third thought: why was a handkerchief hiding the kid’s face? What kind of grotesque experimentation is Jackson’s team of mad cosmetic surgeons performing on the child?