He is a young kid, and however talented he may be as a singer, he is no different from any other semi-educated 20-year-old would be if he was given all kinds of adulation and money.

Hopefully, if he is a fan of Michael Jackson, he will have noticed that Jackson's biggest problem was that he was surrounded by sycophants drawn by his money,and that no-one ever said to him No, Michael, that is not a good idea!

The interview probably didn't reflect his true feelings on the matter in any way. He looked like he was coached by his attorney to say nothing. Like Reagan over Iran-contra, he was to say that he was sorry for what happened, but he remembered nothing.

If I was King, questions I would have liked to ask were whether alcohol or drugs like cocaine had played any part in these violent incidents, but you can be sure that such questions would never be answered truthfully.

Still, I am sure that King was able to sell lots of high-value commercial time based on the appearance of young master Brown in his baby blue sweater. About par for the course for commercial TV.

What is an INTERSECT? I don't think I have one.

... for a business degree.

Would someone like Joe Biden, for example, really write to Cary if he thought that Rahm Emanuel was putting him in the shade?

... will be increasingly expensive to extract as they will be deep and far away. The huge recent offshore Brazilian finds are a case in point.

It won't be long before gasoline costs as much as bottled drinking water.

... used this word in reference to his wife. Of course the word also comes up in Lady Chatterley's Lover, though the gamekeeper Mellors subsequently also refers to his aristocratic lover's lady parts as Lady Jane and to his own organ as John Thomas. We don't know, as far as I know what Cindy McCain calls her husband, but mostly likely she uses the affectionate terms prick or asshole.

In my experience the word cunt is invariably prefixed by an adjective such as stupid and refers to a man. Alternatively dickhead may be used, but cunt conveys greater disapprobation and is more euphonious.

I like it, but if only he could work in the story I heard from a prison nurse this week about how they are seeing a distinct increase in older men who have been released coming back into prison simply because they find they cannot get their health care needs properly taken care of outside so they commit new crimes because actually they prefer life in prison where they get prompt medical attention and all the medications they need for the various ailments that afflict men in late middle age.

... and I guess he has not got far with his counseling yet, but one has to say to him you better believe it kiddo, yes, this is what you did and it was the real you.

Interesting to note that although he avoided jail time, if he ever does get locked up he has all the patter I often hear from inmates down pat already. For those who have never had the pleasure of spending time in prisons, let it be known that our prisons are full of innocent men who were being impersonated by doppelgangers at the time of the index offense.

...but you are not that much of a musician, and haven't really worked at your career. Now your voice is shot and perhaps you are thinking that you can make it back as a kind of last-days Billie Holliday singing in a world-weary fashion.

No doubt if you croak out some of those old anthems like I Will Survive there will always be a few five-to-nine workers who will buy your albums and attend the tour dates that are no doubt forthcoming for the sake of nostalgia and admiration at you life story and the fact that you have survived marriage to Bobby Brown, but I personally will Walk On By as your auntie Dionne Warwick would have it.

... is to facilitate the theft of passenger property by airport staff and to encourage passengers to buy vastly overpriced items sold by the stores located "behind the barricades" in the airports.

Question is, is every item of stock for airport stores subjected to the same level of search before it gets onto the concourse? How can one be certain that a carton of duty free cigarettes does not contain a box-cutter or a bomb?

When will you realize that the only true satisfaction in life comes from helping others, not from seeking control?

... because Brown appears to be more someone who is the victim of an uncontrollable temper than a calculating criminal. Certainly breaking car windows is something that a normal person does not do on the spur of the moment, even if very angry.

The sentence is probably enough to make him realize that if he does this shit again he will really be for the high jump, and from that point of view it seems reasonable.