And, hey, Perkins! I so very much owe you an e-mail and a date. I'm'a get on that before the end of the day, I swear.

I'm'a get on that before the end of the day, I swear.

Cool. That way, I can keep being lazy and not email you.

I'd think after a certain critical mass point of abandoned children, prematurely ended educations, and child brides being wed to bigamists, Social Services should be able to do a big investigation/raid and place some of those "defiant" kids with families that actually know how to parent.

From the story:

In 1953, Arizona state police swarmed into Short Creek, now Colorado City. They arrested the men and transported crying women and children to detention camps. The result was a public outpouring of sympathy for the families — and scorn for state political leaders. The governor, Howard Pyle, lost the next election

Today, law enforcement officials are going after the FLDS by targeting child sexual abuse, welfare fraud and tax evasion rather than polygamy. The Arizona attorney general's office has opened a branch in Colorado City, where an investigator looks into alleged illegalities.

Basically, don't abuse the kids and we'll leave you in peace. You'd think cults would learn but nooooo, someone always starts bedding jr. high students. You wouldn't think "don't be a freaking pervert" would be too big a guideline follow and yet it always seems to be.

My students ripped Gasolina on to my computer at school. Bless their souls.

It is very good music for to make with the lewd and inappropriate dancing.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is true.

Is an hour and a quarter before show time early enough to get to Batman tonight?

You crazy New Yorkers. I'm planning on getting to my theater maybe 30 minutes early.

And if I post later tonight lamenting how I couldn't get in, you may feel free to mock my Ohio ass.

place some of those "defiant" kids with families that actually know how to parent.

A lot of them are going to good homes, but the prosecution of polygamy is a *very* touchy issue in this neck of the woods. Some top-rank state politicians are descended--sometimes recently--from polygamist families, and they get yelled at by both sides for insinuating that polygamy is more than just misguided and against orthodox LDS teaching.

Yes, it's very well known that kids are suffering in this situation. Kids are a dime a dozen around here, though. I'm trying to remember if a mandatory seat belt law managed to get passed here, because there were several people saying such a law was biased against large families that didn't have enough seat belts in the car for all the kids and it would force big families to get another car or leave some kids home.

I am thinking that those FLDS folks didn't do much in the way of advance planning when they started getting rid of their boys. Because, like, if they'd gone ahead and murdered them and hid the bodies, at least you wouldn't have cherubic, traumatized youths talking to the press, you know?

I suppose they could have arrested all these kids, and put them in the town/county jail for eternity, but I am sure if they did that lawyers would swoop in with vast glee, appealing and suing till the cows came home.

The first stop for many boys is Hurricane or St. George, where a network for exiles exists. They often share apartments or sleep on couches while trying to find work. Some end up in Las Vegas or Salt Lake City.

Oh dear. Vegas freaked me out and I'm a freakin' New Yorker. They must get there and think the rest of the planet IS a den of sin.

I am thinking that those FLDS folks didn't do much in the way of advance planning when they started getting rid of their boys. Because, like, if they'd gone ahead and murdered them and hid the bodies, at least you wouldn't have cherubic, traumatized youths talking to the press, you know?

There has been some buzz that they brace yourself for the "shock" think the end is imminent. And they're probably convinced the outside world doesn't care about children anyway.