I Had No Idea

The "Troubled Teen Industry" is raking in billions.

Does everything have to be a fucking grift?

Roy Moore Pickup Lines

"Hey, girl - wanna see my little gun?"

"Want to go to dinner with me, darling? Kids eat free on Tuesdays." #RoyMoorePickupLines

— Arthur Vandelay (@Arthur_6985) November 11, 2017

Come back to my place and I'll show you a "little Moore"#RoyMoorePickUpLines pic.twitter.com/ap4jK6k6sy

— (((Paul Green))) (@bigsexy_tote) November 11, 2017

 

"On a scale from 1 to 10, how old are you?"#RoyMoorePickupLines

— Arthur Vandelay (@Arthur_6985) November 11, 2017

 

#RoyMoorePickUpLines

Don't you just love Ted Nugent?

— Doody Giuliani (@DoodyGiuliani1) November 11, 2017

 

War Is Not Healthy

Both Sides(?)

In the atmosphere of All Shutdown All The Time, it became fairly easy to overlook this one from a law professor at Liberty University:

The Christian mission field is a “magnet” for sexual abusers, Boz Tchividjian, a Liberty University law professor who investigates abuse said Thursday (Sept. 26) to a room of journalists.

While comparing evangelicals to Catholics on abuse response, ”I think we are worse,” he said at the Religion Newswriters Association conference, saying too many evangelicals had “sacrificed the souls” of young victims.

What is it with these god freaks?  If they're not invading the Middle East - or hatching plots in the Middle East to blow up the infidels - they're hanging "witches" or "honor murdering" teenaged girls for the sin of being raped; or they're preaching hellfire and brimstone about home and family while buying meth from their homosexual lovers etc etc etc.  And in this country, they get to do all that in the comfort and safety of a tax-free corporate office.

But back to the point - maybe we should be taking a much closer look at the high rate of incidence of sexual assault/sexual abuse in organizations with very top-down authoritarian power structures - like churches and the US military - and maybe we shouldn't be leaving them alone with the kids.

Penn State Update

From Michael Collins at The Agonist:

The relentless deviate, former PSU defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is accused of sexually assaulting children for years. According to the grand jury, he gained easy access to children and early adolescents through a foundation he founded in 1977, the Second Mile Foundation. He continued the assaults at his home and in the PSU showers on at least one occasion. The foundation serves over 100,000 at-risk youth. Sandusky started the foundation as a group home for "troubled boys" in 1977. Since hiring Jack Raykovitz, PhD, a licensed psychologist, as president, the foundation has grown into a multimillion (sic) enterprise serving over 100,000 children throughout the state.

I'm not advocating violence - don't kick him in the nuts and don't throw anything at him - but if you see this Sandusky guy out in public, he needs to be made to feel as small and unwelcome as it is humanly possible to feel.