Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Dum-Dum

I quit smoking 2 months, 2 weeks, and 6 days ago. I still feel the need to put something in my mouth when I'm driving. I just automatically grab for my cigarettes. So, instead, I've been eating Dum-Dum lollipops. This morning...

HORROR

I realized I'd run out.

I need to go shopping.




Man kills mother, grills part of body - Yahoo! News

Just a passing thought... why is it more interesting that he tried to grill part of her body than it is that he killed her? Would baking her have been less or more interesting?

Read more at news.yahoo.com/news






Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Oh, no! Criminals on MySpace!

Puh-leeze. So, there are people who are registered sex offenders who also have a profile on MySpace. You know what? There might be people who have served time for murder on there, too. Oh, but wait... it's only sex offenders who are required to carry their crimes with them all of their lives.

Yeah, I have a problem with the whole idea of registering sex offenders. They have served their time. If they have such a huge tendency to commit similar crimes again, how about we make their sentences longer? What a crazy idea.

The article states:
Wired News ran the names of randomly selected registered sex offenders in San Francisco and neighboring Sonoma County through MySpace's user search engine, and turned up no fewer than five men whose self-reported names, photographs, ages, astrological signs, locations and (in two instances) heights matched those of profiles on the state's online sex offender registry.

and

All of their online profiles, which understandably make no mention of their crimes, were surprisingly easy to find.

Ok, so then anyone can do the same. I don't think the people at Wired News have some sort of special skills that allowed them to find these profiles.

The article also points out that these people are not breaking any laws by having profiles on the site. Of course the don't include their criminal history in their profile. Other types of criminals probably don't either. And, OMG, they MISPORTRAY (which according to Merriam-Webster isn't a word?) themselves!!! Shock! Horror! I'm sure NONE of the teens using the site do THAT!

Blech!





Monday, April 03, 2006

I guess sex really does sell.

Hi MeFites.

And hi, Mom. Mom, don't click on the links. Really. You don't want to. I mean, you can if you want to. But, you don't.

I posted a question on ask.metafilter Friday, March 31st, about some sex-related websites. I had 76 visits to this blog on March 31st. Coincidence? I think not. ;-)

Sorry it's so boring, MeFites!