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:: Cover your face and DO NOT dangle your baby in public!
I don't understand the hulla-ballou over Michael Jackson-- his "face" and the baby-dangling. Almost uniformly the announcers have "reported" on the unveiling of his face during his recent court appearance, and the widely-publicized "baby dangling" in Berlin, with an shocked and affronted tone. With I-Would-Know-Better smirkes, they sound like a gaggle of curtain-twitchers atwitter with a fresh morsel to suck dry. I am not a Michael Jackson champion. That is not the point. Part of our human-ness is the ability to inflict ourselves with real and imaginary "enhancements", to our body, mind, and soul. Our frailty is to not see the folly we create. So much for his "face". What to say of another's choice? Better to examine your own choices. As to the baby-dangling-- clearly it was not particularly good judgement, but how many parents have tossed their infants in the air, risking not catching them? Or swung them by their wee arms, round and round? I read that people actually called the California State child protection agency to register their outrage at what they considered his inability to properly "parent" this child. Better to not go down that road. It leads to a whole 'nuther area of discussion in which Michael Jackson dangling his child would be far far down the list of egregious actions commited by people who consider themselves worthy to parent. So much easier to judge others than to look at ourselves.