Is anyone else freaking out-

About the Austrian father who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered 7 children with her?

And he even looks CRAZY. Certainly not one of the people that you'd think, "Oh, he always seemed so normal."

But maybe after you're caught for enslaving your daughter and raping her over a lifetime, maybe that brings the crazy out.

 I've been told that I'm not "supportive" of my "co-workers"-

this was in a very positive performance review, I might add-

so here's one of my co-workers blogs.

Ch-ch-check it, oooout!

I second that emotion.

McCain unfortunately may be old enough to have a bucket list but I gotta say, I agree with this completely.

Recently, I watch When the Levees Broke and I was blown away by the misfeasance of the state and federal government. (And no, I'm not sure I'm using that word correctly either. Hmmm... I looked it up: a lawful action performed in an illegal or improper way. Not quite right...Aha! Malfeasance! That's the word I mean!)

Anyway, the old codger has a point.

Joe Scarborough is a big baby!

Apparently, Joe Scarborough can't take the heat as seen in this clip.

 

His excuse is that he's a political analyst, so his services weren't being used properly.

This is the man who does "Scarborough Country," yes? What does it take to be a political analyst anyway?

One small step for Indy car racing

As you might have figured by now, I'm a little bit of a third-wave-post-feminist which basically means I don't think feminism is dead but I wear lipstick and short skirts. (Is that the fourth wave? I've lost count.)

But I was excited to see this-

Yep, a woman finally won an Indy car race. 

And she's hot to boot.

In other news, I got a little flack for mentioning Ron Paul in the last post- that he was never taken seriously as a candidate. But I think my point was, he's still in Pennsylvania campaigning away. 

Sometimes, candidates stay in the race because, I dunno, they want their ideas to be heard? Also, perhaps Hillary thinks she owes it to history to stay in. I know I feel like in a room of men, I have to speak for my entire gender. Obviously, I like speaking for my gender. And when you've experienced sexism firsthand, you feel it's your duty.

Like the time I foiled a would be rapist by making a cell-phone call. Actually happened. A woman in plain daylight was jogging down a path in Minneapolis, a guy grabbed her and told police later that he was planning to take her under the bridge and have sex with her. (Never mind what she wanted to do that Sunday morning.)

Or less dramatic but no less scary, when I was applying for colleges, I had an interview where the interviewer actually lied to me about what the college offered (because the class I asked about was a main component of my extra-curriculars) and then said I didn't belong at his college. He then proceeded to ask me strangely personal questions (especially since he had made the executive decision I wouldn't be going to his ivy league institution.) He asked me whether my mother worked when I was young (she did) and how did I feel about it. Then he smiled and said he was doing a private survey.

This was at Columbia University, an institution that only started accepting women in 1983. I was applying in 1988.

I applied to Barnard College, got in early decision.  That way, I could go to a women's college where I wouldn't have to deal with that crap and still get a Columbia education. How do you like them apples?

My only regret is that I never reported that asshole. 

OK, OK, Hillary...

Not that I'm voting for her or anything, but a couple of days ago, I heard a co-worker refer to Hillary as a "multi-headed hydra." Would a man refer to another man using that strange mythic/evoking Medusa/serpentine language?

Also, there's this sense that she's somehow an awful human being for staying in the race so long, that this points up her flaws.

A)Ron Paul is still in the Republican race (which is hysterical!).
Hillary's down 200 delegates or so. Ron is down 1,146.

B) Oh, I don't know, endurance, stamina, strength- these are bad things? In a woman, apparently so.

Nothing's shocking....

To quote Jane's Addiction.

And yet.

This still threw me for a loop, especially the list of things he was bringing for his liaison with a FIVE YEAR OLD.

A Dora Explorer doll and petroleum jelly.

Also, that he said, to soothe the oh-so-concerned mother, that he "had done this a lot."

People like this should be castrated.
Or that's the fantasy- but is it enough? Is that hitting them where it hurts? People like this, maybe it's what they want?

What will stop things like this from happening? An end to the internet? School counseling? A big hug?

Since I have no idea what would make a grown man want to rape a FIVE YEAR OLD, I have no ideas on how to stop this. Any thoughts?

so true so true

Truth be told, I don't really know what they're talking about-

24/7?

OK, this is actually a mea culpa- been out of touch, working very hard at the station. (I might be up for a promotion!)

More later.