Harriet Walker: You can keep your sanitised poppets – give us some real pop stars
Tiny musical poppet Justin Bieber – whose singing voice is so high we oldies can barely hear that either – has fathered a child, claims US gossip mag Star.
Although denied by his people (and by Bieber himself on Twitter), the scandal will cling to Bieber's "boy next door" image like a spurned adolescent does to their lonely crush, especially given the singer's supposed words during this immaculate conception. Less the "I skip a beat when I see her on the playground" lyrics of his hit "Baby", and something altogether more direct, if the mother is to be beliebed, sorry, believed.
Oh, Justin. What a rude awakening for us, and for him. Of course, Bieber wants to work his way round that army of screaming fans he has – he's a teenage boy. The way he has been held up as a sexless, animatronic role model is absurd, given the amount of hormones being hurled at him by stadium audiences as well as by his own incubating lust drive. His own manager announced recently that Bieber's "balls have dropped"; you have to pity the little pet for having his puberty played out on every screen in Christendom.
North Newton man guilty in baby's death
NEWTON — Some reporters' questions to Richard Hill on Thursday focused on whether he was satisfied with the 20-year sentence that Chad Carr could get.
Hill spoke to reporters after Carr pleaded guilty, under a plea agreement, to second-degree murder and other crimes in the death of Hill's 19-month old son, Vincent. Carr was the live-in boyfriend of Vincent's mother.
It really doesn't matter whether the sentence is 20 years or 50 years, Hill answered. What matters to him, he said, is his son is gone.
"I'm still not going to be able to watch my boy grow up ... go to prom ... throw his first baseball," said Hill, 24.
One thing should come from the tragedy, Hill said.
"I want his life — it was short ... I want it to mean more," he said of his son.
Hill said he hopes to help make people aware of child abuse and how common it is. It seems like there is more awareness of other issues, like animal abuse, he said, which has its own commercial spots.
