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.

The community in question was in the process of shifting operations to El Paso, Texas. Their leader is missing and may be hiding at the compound they're building. (I always get nervous when religious groups start building compounds.) The state of Utah froze the FLDS' assets for fear that the chosen few were in the process of abandoning the "excess" members of the community while the faithful scarpered for texas.

people saying such a law was biased against large families

It would get a tricky once you get past five kids.

It would get a tricky once you get past five kids.

So does keeping them clothed or sending them to school or getting them medical attention. More kids requires more money.

FUCK.

No car until tomorrow.

The shipment came in late.

Mandatory seat belts also runs into "How dare you infringe on my freedom to die messily!" thing around here. I'm thinking somebody intelligent pointed out that five-year-olds aren't old enough to decide they want to die messily in car wrecks.