1. It’s called ‘the law,’ you ignoramuses.  In Ohio, Miranda Smith, a true sicko, was charged with rape involving a two-year-old child, Her conviction was reversed by The Ohio Supreme Court after an appeals court had upheld the trial court. The grounds for the reversal was that her (disgusting and horrible) conduct, which she admitted to, “only” constituted gross sexual imposition under Ohio law. Gross sexual imposition is a lesser charge, and might result in less punishment, though not if the sentencing judge has his head screwed on right.

What did the woman do? Oh, Smith had her two-year-old son insert a ‘sex toy” into her vagina, took a video of the act and sent it to her boyfriend. (Now there’s something you don’t see every day.) How the trial and appeals court allowed a conviction for rape to stand, I’ll never know. The statute defines what the child was made to do as a sex act, but its should be obvious that one can’t be charged with raping oneself. Whatever it was that this mother did to her child, it wasn’t rape. “The state asks us to … conclude that Ohio law requires only an act of insertion and that it does not matter whether it is the victim or the defendant who does the inserting. In other words, the state is essentially asking us to rewrite R.C. 2907.02(A)(1)(b) to make the statute fit the facts of this case. We cannot do that, though.” Oh, I can think of at least one SCOTUS justice who would probably argue that doing exactly that is what “feels” just. Naturally, the “Think of the children! mob” went bonkers. Consider these arguments from activists:

It’s this focus on the language of the law rather than the impact the crime had on the child that troubles those who advocate for rape and sex crime survivors.

Amy Dudley is the director of the only accredited rape crisis center in Montgomery and Preble counties, the YWCA Dayton’s Center for Survivors of Sexual Violence. She said the fact that a defendant’s arguments seemed to matter more in this supreme court case than the long-term impact to the child is why laws need to change.

“If we can say that a 2-year-old was complicit in (Smith’s) sexual conduct, what does that say for older survivors?” Dudley said, after reviewing the case and watching oral arguments.

YWCA Dayton’s CSSV focuses on adult survivors, but Dudley said research supports the fact that child sex crime survivors feel effects far into adulthood, and having to relive trauma or come to terms with it later in life can cause even more issues than the initial abuse.

“They’re becoming these unhealthy adults with mental health issues and other issues that sometimes aren’t addressed,” Dudley said. “(For adult survivors) if the law wasn’t there to protect this child in this case, when will it?”

Seeing a person’s sentence minimized in a crime of this type is something that could have impacts on the entire process of helping survivors, Dudley said. That’s why it’s important that the justice system turn toward a “survivor focus” while giving everyone involved the rights they are owed.

This is the kind of “justice” the ascendant mindset of the totalitarian woke would inflict on us. The actual law doesn’t matter, what matters is giving people what they are “owed,” whether the law used to do it applies or not. Continue reading →

I saw this ridiculous article on the front page of the New York Times: “Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room/Ten years ago, psychologists proposed that a wide range of people would suffer anxiety and grief over climate. Skepticism about that idea is gone” by Ellen Barry. I wasn’t going to post on it, though I was tempted to ask, “Why is this pathetic, paranoid women made crazy by exactly the kind of climate change hysteria propagated by the Times worthy of such attention, or any attention at all?” However, I’m buried in more useful issues already. Then Ann Althouse, for some reason, blogged about it, with a long quote including “They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would remain through her lifetime and the lifetime of her children. She longed, really longed, to make less of a mark on the earth. But she had also had a baby in diapers, and a full-time job, and a 5-year-old who wanted snacks. At the age of 37, these conflicting forces were slowly closing on her, like a set of jaws…”

As she often does, Althouse just teed up the thing for her commenters to swing at. Had I written about it, I would have concentrated on how the Times, like the rest of the media, takes no responsibility for its role in driving once normal people like the woman in the story nuts. The exact same phenomenon is occurring regarding the Wuhan virus. The mindless terror the news media seeded about Donald Trump–still is seeding–is another example.

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… is the hysteria over the fact that President Trump wanted Mike Pence, his VP, to refuse to perform his ministerial role of receiving the sealed Electoral College votes, opening them, and presiding over the joint session of Congress in which they are made official and the election result is certified. Pence had no power to do what Trump wanted, and he knew it, because the VP only has a few required duties and Pence had four long years to read up on them. So he said no, because he isn’t nuts. That may be the nicest thing I’ve ever written about Mike Pence, a bland, low-profile VP in the old mold of dozens of forgettable men you never heard of or have forgotten, like Henry Wilson and Thomas Hendricks.

Trump’s idea, like a lot of his crazy ideas, was based on bad information and poor impulse control, though I’m certain some creative lawyer told him the VP has the power to halt the election count, just like John Yoo told George Bush that water-boarding wasn’t torture. Trump sincerely believed that the voting had been marred by fraud, and yes, as an official who had pledged to protect and defend the Constitution, if that were the case, a President would have good cause to try to fix the problem.

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Yes, I think I’ll just sit around among the pieces of my ruined head for the rest of my life. It will be safer that way.

There were almost three explosions.

The first, a near miss, is that “The Masked Singer,” easily the most moronic TV show in decades and perhaps ever, is still on the air and millions of human beings watch it. The idea of the show, an update of the late 50s panel show “Masquerade Party,” in which a group of B celebrities tried to guess the identity of other celebrities, almost always actors and actresses, who were wearing masks and costumes. So “The Masked Singer” isn’t even original. I have, luckily, learned to suppress TMS head eruptions, or had, until I learned that…

…in the taping of the first episode of that show’s new season, the garishly, ridiculously costumed (I know this without seeing the clip, because ALL of the show’s costumes are garish and ridiculous) performer turned out to be Rudy Giuliani. KABOOM! #1. Continue reading →