I guess I'm failing to see the trauma. Now, if they kidnap and torture them just to get their point across, that's different, obviously.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, coming right after the break in stories. I guess it depends on whether it goes kid gets in car, driver turns around and says "now wasn't that stupid?," or if they're actually making someone think they've been kidnapped. If it's the first, then I think the lack of trauma is matched by the lack of point. If it's the second, then I stand by my outrage.

Maybe I'm also coming from too personal a place. I've had a gun to my head - being told that it was a set-up afterward wouldn't make it much less traumatic, and any residual effects would be like ongoing betrayals from whatever kind soul set it up. No thanks.

There is Tiramisu ice cream?! Guess I'm not a very kinky ice cream slut these days...must remedy. And baklava(Funny to type that and not be having a "Pelecanos likes carrots" post.)

whether it goes kid gets in car, driver turns around and says "now wasn't that stupid?,"

This is what happened. They didn't actually take them anywhere.

Hec -- I saw the Martha Stewart episode with the vintage linoleum. The chick with the lino rocked, it was a little odd seeing her next to Martha.

Okay, that's a lot better, but in that case, I'm not sure I see the effectiveness. Eh, chalk it up to Dr. Phil style reality tv I guess.

I'm back from therapy. Not to bad today. I think I am going to try and get a haircut later.

No giving away of the babies until I get to see them next month, woman!

What Nicole said.

Anne, house selling~ma.

I never heard of w2w carpeting before today. Learn something new with Bitches every day.

Tiramisu Ice cream. It's real and it's wonderful. Can only be improved by having Spike. Whole Spike, not little chopped up vampire bits like a demented cold cereal.

(moaning I don't make in public)

Dear lord would I have failed that test when I was younger. You know though, it wasn't actually the people I didn't know who caused the danger. I went to FE's house the first night I met him, and I went with another guy to his friends' house to watch Monty Python. FE became, well, FE and the other guy wound up being a really good friend. It wound up being the guy I did know.

ETA: I should say that regardless of how lucky I was and how well things turned out when I did go off with guys I didn't know, I still look back on that and realize just how D.U.M.B. that was.

stats: women who are attacked - 85% know who attacks them in some way. for kids it is about 95% ( this may be for sexual attacks ) Why yes - I have my self defense class in about an hour and 15.