Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Welcome 2008. It’s obvious something is busted with us, or with you.
A Granville man was arrested last week after driving 40 hours to Spokane, Wash. and threatening to rape two girls, ages 15 and 6, police reported. Joshua R. Stetar, 20, was arrested Friday after police responded to a harassment complaint called in by the father of the 15-year-old girl, Spokane Police said.
According to the police report, Stetar said he met the girl in December of 2006 while playing Halo — an interactive X-Box 360 video game that allows players to talk to other players via a headset as they combat aliens using a variety of weapons and equipment.
At about 9:30 p.m. Friday, Stetar sent a text message to the victim stating that he was driving by her house, police said. In the message, he described his car as a gray Oldsmobile. “Her parents were outside on their porch at the time, and they confirmed the vehicle actually did drive by,” said Spokane Sgt. Isamu Yamada.
At 9:36 p.m., the victim received another text message from the suspect stating, “Tell the cops that I’m gonna rape you and your sister.” Stetar reportedly thought the victim’s 6-year-old cousin was her sister.
Gosh, I don’t mean to creep out anybody who might have gotten a fancy new inter-networking game under the tree this Christmas…but you know, if that happens, I’m not one bit sorry for it.
This is one screwed-up world.
Update: The article goes on to mention Joshua Stetar’s MySpace page is “riddled with Bible verses and religious rhetoric supporting abstinence.” It makes no mention of other things I find just as eerie if not moreso…like he’s 20, 6’2″ and 130-something pounds, is a sports fan and claims to be a Psych major. Don’t have any axe to grind against any of those, I’m just sayin’.
I wonder what axe the newspaper has to grind; they might not be real big fans of abstinence programs.
Looks like Joshua got her street address and cell phone number off Google. There’s a good thing to tighten down right there; have you played “virtual stalker” against your own kids lately, snooping around to see what comes up? It’s quick, easy and free.
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What? You can’t see thw connection? He’s a self professed Christian. That obviously means he’s an insane delusional type. The inference is obvious.
(yes, completely tongue in cheek here)
- pdwalker | 01/01/2008 @ 23:51I wonder if us older guys here really remember how messed up youthful hormones make us. I’m personally not a fan of abstinence-only programs, as we’re trying to have the schools regulate behavior outside of school. While I think teachers have an opportunity to mold by example, this kind of “don’t do this” education is better left to parents, with the school providing nothing other than objectively dispassionate technical information. Possibly some side conversation around the resultant psychology of the act, but leave it at that. Abstinence didn’t do so well for our Catholic priests in this country, and I suspect strongly that the Euro’s are simply better at burying their heads in the sand.
But I digress. I agree that the article is grinding an axe, as the Myspace page is the final of the evidence presented against the boy. However, it’s clear from his page that the man-child here has been brainwashed. He’s going to have a non-religious spiritual experience at some point in the not-too-distant future, and it’s going to wreck his world. He’s made his faith the end-all and be-all of his life, and when the cracks start to show (because let’s face it, he’s not going to get the training of logical debate a priest gets in seminary) he’ll fall to pieces. It appears that it’s already started. The fact that the paper has said axe does not detract or reduce his behavioral dissonance.
Pdwalker: I’d feel more comfortable with the “self-professed Christians” were there not so much hypocrisy (and downright criminal action) amongst the more prominent Christian leaders. Additionally, Joshua’s page smacks of “the lady doth protest too much.” I’d imagine that if one were truly secure in their faith that they’d not have to trumpet it from the highest mount.
- dcshiderly | 01/03/2008 @ 15:25