Found Art: From the The Other America

Question:

One can never start instilling the concept of "winners" and "losers" too soon, can one?

Answer:

Nope.

Tremonton City Days: Royal Babies

Not to mention instilling the serial notion, 1, 2, 3, and so on. An early appreciation of one's place in the hierarchy is crucial to child development and misplaced parental sense of self.



Hat-tip to Jesus' General' and his hometown paper.

Child Abuse Du Jour: Say More About How Kids Need Mommies & Daddies, K?

This five year old kid's mommy punished him by locking him up alone in a sweltering attic, naked, covered in feces. Did his mommy like being a mommy, you think?

The worst part was listening to the TV talking heads interviewing two adult males, the mommy's own daddy and her uncle, who seemed to think that mommy was doing a swell job of mommying, and that this tortured kid really was a handful who just needed some control.

The police report said that when officers unlocked a door at the top of the stairs leading to the attic they found the boy "completely naked, covered in feces from head-to-toe crying to "go downstairs.''

The room was covered in human feces and there were several children's finger markings along the wall, made with feces, that appeared to have been there for a considerable amount of time, the report said.

When interviewed on TV, the kid's grandfather and uncle were complaining about all this negative attention, insisting that this treatment is not child abuse, and that the mommy had been trying to get help, but nobody would help her, boo hoo, which is patently false. This happened in Lowell, MA, home of MassHealth, and home of child protective services that are available on a voluntary basis--overwhelmed parents need only pick up the phone.

But you know, so much for the postborn, let's save our worry for the feti, shall we?

Child Abuse Du Jour: List Incomplete

1. How about a little boy beaten to death in California, where they just cut funding for child protective services?

Really, screw the damn six-year-old tattletales. Kids should fend for themselves.

2. How about a daddy belt-beating his two-year old (with the metal end of the belt -- I always ask 'which end?') so hard the kid had a seizure?

3. How about a 23-year-old Omaha man charged with beating a 4 month old infant till she was critically injured?

It takes me about one google to come up with a passel of cases. But, you know, once the innocent preborns turn into postborns, who gives a shit?

Dirty-Diaper Fetishist Vitter Defends Southern Values

"Southern values"?

Is that what they call it these days?

[coughcough].

Virtue Is Its Own Reward But Pays No Pottersville Bills

Exemplary blogger JurassicPork of Welcome Back to Pottersville could benefit from a deeper appreciation of his work. Quickly.


Do do what you can.

Child Abuse/Neglect No Priority for GOP Gov Ahnold

I don't know if Arnold is a fetus-firster. I do know that he has just slashed funding for the department charged with dealing with child abuse and neglect.

I continue to be horrified by the upsurge in fetal sentimentalism, while the job of actually protecting actual kids from abuse and neglect remains so, well, neglected.

Feh.

Lindsey Graham Complains That Sotomayor Asks "Tough Questions"

I never said that playing the shrew card, calling a female temperamental, argumentative, and tough was sexist.

I never said that Lindsey Graham was a pussy, either.

Waterboarding Without Permission

Sure we tortured in 2002 well before we cooked up some lame excuse to justify doing it.

Whut's yer frickin' problem, pussies?

Via BBC interview: former CIA Agent John Kirakou pinpoints use of torture as early as the end of May/beginning of June 2002, well before the notorious Bybee memo.

All the Lonely People -- David Brooks' Groper Edition

So, here's an adult male who is being groped in the general genital area by a lonely male Republican politician who is so powerful that columnist David Brooks does not dare to tell the Senator to take his hand off Brooks' inner thigh, but allows the Senator to leave his hand on said inner thigh all during a dinner?



Which Senator might it be? Nominations?

Blast from Past. Deja Vu All Over Again, Again, Again

On Bush and the Agony of Mirror Neuron Retardation.

Real Torture Yields Fake Facts

Force-Feeding at Gitmo.

Preznit Toad-Exploder Spreads His Culture of Sadism

Torturz "R" U.S.

While We Weep Over Frozen Feti, Real Cruelty Marches On

America the beautiful.

More of the Same

Sounds like Sarah Palin and her gang of Pro-Life Killas, but -- it's not. No caribou were harmed. Not like in that picture, anyhow. That one was harmed. You know, as in, like, killed. Not living anymore. Deaded. Deprived of life. Anyhow.

It's just as bad, but different.

It's someone else hurting animals and children.

Because why not?

Teen Charged With Cat Mutilation

Cruelty to animals -- not a happy symptom.

The Vicious Mrs, (Palin) Calls It Quits. For Now?

I dunno why.

I dunno why Sarah Palin is throwing in the towel.

Affair with Sanford?

ADD restlessness?

Consciousness of guilt?

Unexpected pregnancy?

Seeking a Senate seat?

Wanting to earn money to pay to process all those rape kits?

Belatedly discovering concept of cruelty to animals, becoming Preznit of PETA?

Desire to found a charity brain trust to provide the underprivileged with idiosyncratic babynames?

Wishing to devote her heart and soul to a new socio-political movement to enrich the universe by means of tough laws enforcing compulsory winking?

NETROOTS NATION IN SECOND LIFE -- BE THERE OR BE SQUARE DUDES LIKE CLUELESS JOHN MCCAIN WHO CAN'T EVEN DO HIS OWN EMAIL OMIGOD

Well, but it's true. The be there or be square part. It's good to be an early adopter of virtual reality. Really.

Sure, you've heard that Second Life is just a game. And you've heard that life is just a dream. And that all the world's a stage. And that life is like a rainbow, a bubble in water, a dewdrop, a flash of lightning, a magician's apparition. All of which has nothing to do with the fact that likeminded persons who otherwise would not have the chance to meet have that chance by means of Indra's interNet. Start now, because why not, eh?

Start here. Or start here, at Virtually Speaking.

RIP Pina Bausch

Brilliant work.

Devout Christian Incests Step-daughter

Mom says she had no clue her husband was raping her daughter.

But let's get all worked up about snowflakes rather than incest, shall we?

Child -Abuse-Porn Industry Kingpin Caught

Kingpin Arthur Lelland Sayers caught.

Four million images of children.

For a widespread, profit-making industry.

HufPo: Another Sexist Article on a Prominent US Politician

HuffPo is supposed to be a liberal site?

Well, guess what. It isn't.

Regarding females primarily as sex objects is uh -- duh -- sexist. And that's uh -- duh -- bad.

This is maybe the fifth article from HuffPo in the past month that is openly, overtly sexist. Call for others to get their panties in a twist, plse.

Maria Cantwell Voted Sexiest Senator.

Michael Jackson Dies, Denial About MJ's Hx of Childhood Abuse Lives On

So there was a thread recently on a liberal blog I admire, mourning Michael Jackson.

When MJ's history of being an adult survivor of childhood abuse was mentioned, it was first minimized ("45 years ago many parents used corporeal (sic) punishment") and then all mention was banned, having been framed as if mentioning an innocent child's victimization by his own father were "speaking ill of the dead."

When we cannot speak honestly of what actually happens in families, we become complicit in allowing abuse to go on, unseen.

Dad "Disciplines" Son to Death -- on Father's Day.

No, I'm not making this up. I don't have to. I never have to.

Father beats seven-year-old son to death.,

Heard about the "discipline" part on the news last night, don't have a link yet.

The Baseline Scenario

Oh.

This could be fun: The Baseline Scenario


Hat-tip to Corrente.

Lest We Forget

The inimitable Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Let it be a lesson to us all.

Iran Blames West for Deaths Caused by Neo-SAVAK Basij Murderers

Yuh. The swine claim it's all our fault.

Apparently the Iranian people didn't know they were being repressed by a brutal regime till we all twittered them.

Robert Aitken Roshi Needs Help

Zen master Robert Aitken Roshi is 91 now, and in frail health; he lives in the USA, a country where health care is a luxury. 'Nuff said.