A former top official of the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with downloading child pornography from the Internet after federal investigators found images of children engaging in sex acts on his computer.

Apparently, their plan to keep out the pedophiles by keeping out homosexuals isn't working.

Apparently, their plan to keep out the pedophiles by keeping out homosexuals isn't working.

Neither is their plan to keep out nonreligious people.

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish.

"I think it's amusing," said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant. "I think it's absolutely classic America. Everything is for sale in America, every type of personal information."

Oof. We get the country we deserve.

He came out of Phoenix. IIRC he has a twin whose name is pronounced Shawn. Erika can probably confirm. He is also adorable.

Silly, if you'd quoted my whole post you'd have seen that that was my gripe!

It's not merely that they've warped one name, it's that they had to go and get cute about it.

Yes, they are from here...I told you we're the Nobody capital. Mea Culpa, Seanie. But I watch a different station than the brother. I do hate the man's name, so it's not just you.

Well, I'm off. Next stop--Dallas, Texas, where I'll get to meet Heather in a couple of days. Yay!

Be excellent to each other.

2 hours formatting a spreadsheet to merge it and then cleaning up the merged letters. ugh. the person I need to get them approved by is not in though, so I'll print another day.

Mail merging is fun! Okay not a great deal of fun.

Revised thread title though? Aces.

I'm still at work on the technical document that I've been writing all. day. Happily, I only have a half hour to go. Even more happily, tomorrow is my virtual Friday, as I'm off to Connexions (slash con) for a Thursday through Monday weekend.

Now to get this damn document done so that I can go.

Hivemind question - can you get Lyme disease from non-deer ticks?