Greg Laden alerted me to a surprising message that I then found in my spam mail: Amazon has unilaterally terminated their contract with associates in Minnesota. They have a program called Amazon Associates which bloggers could take advantage of: we registered with Amazon, they gave us a little personal code to imbed in links to …
Category Archive: Crime
Jun 10 2013
Do you have kids?
Then do not read this story about grief and loss. If you don’t have kids, but you have a heart, don’t read it either. OK, that covers most people. Republicans and members of the NRA, you can go ahead.
Jun 10 2013
Atheism has no desire for martyrs, so please stop creating them
In Syria, you aren’t free to argue in even the mildest terms about gods. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the boy had been arguing with someone about the existence of God, and was heard to say: "Even if the Prophet Mohammad returns, I will not become a believer." But other sources suggested that …
Jun 08 2013
Gun control now
How many more stupid tragedies will it take? Authorities in northern Arizona say a 4-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his father at a Prescott Valley home. Prescott Valley police say the shooting occurred just after noon Friday. The 35-year-old man and his young son were visiting from Phoenix and were at a friend’s …
Jun 07 2013
Only rapists are allowed privacy now
The hacker who exposed the rot in the Steubenville rape case has been arrested by the FBI and faces serious jail time. At first, he thought the FBI agent at the door was with FedEx. "As I open the door to greet the driver, approximately 12 FBI SWAT team agents jumped out of the truck, …
May 30 2013
This is what hate gets you
Nigeria has just passed a vicious anti-gay bill. It not only forbids gay marriage, it criminalizes organizing or lobbying to allow gay marriage, helping gays marry, having a gay club, and public demonstrations of affection by couples in public. Lawmakers in Nigeria passed a bill Thursday banning gay marriage and outlawing anyone from forming organizations …
May 27 2013
Pell indicts the Australian Catholic Church
Whoa, my twitter feed is on fire with all these angry Australians. It seems Cardinal George Pell is getting grilled about child abuse within the Australian Catholic Church, and he’s being his usual callous, dogmatic self. “Some of the victims themselves aren’t entirely blameless,” indeed. The Age has an article summarizing the inquiry so far, …
May 21 2013
So…that’s rape culture, all right
The normalization of rape continues apace. Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said. Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held in lieu of $900,000 bail in a hearing today …
May 12 2013
If they use guns, it’s not terrorism
One or a few people shot up a Mothers’ Day Parade in New Orleans — nobody was killed, but 17 were injured. It’s strangely quiet out there. The news has been non-stop “Boston terrorism!”, “Lone wolf terrorism!”, “Oh, woe, what shall we do about terrorism?” for the last few weeks, but guns blasting a parade, …
May 08 2013
If the air force wants to recruit rapists, they’re off to a great start
A man, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who was in charge of a branch of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, was arrested after groping and assaulting a woman in a parking lot. How can that be? Didn’t he read his own specialty’s literature on sexual assault? Maybe he did. You should take …
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