Actually, I think they quoted his next door neighbor as saying he seemed like a nice guy and that she's doubting the story or can't believe it or somesuch.

She's definitely an outlier. Everyone else is saying, Yup, creep, weird, wrong, all the parents are saying they'd checked the same list Ginger did and they knew he was a sex offender, and all the neighborhood kids called him "Creepy Phil."

I can't even comprehend that story. It's freaking me right out.

When she checked in to follow up, they basically told her they didn't see anything and didn't have a warrant, so that was the end of it.

you know, it occurs to me that in some states, a parole officer has the right to search the premises of a parolee without a warrant. Where was his parole officer?

Apparently...

A warrant would not have been needed to search a paroled sex offender's property.

Also...

Police investigating the serial killings of 10 prostitutes in the 1990s near where Phillip Garrido lived and worked conducted a new search today of the home outside Antioch where police say he held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

Vortex, I'm quite out of touch with how black America views hair politics these days. Is this article on point?

According to TMZ, DJ AM is your next celebrity decedent.

I think so. Basically, the article says that it's still a controversy. I've had women tell me that I was selling out for straightening my hair, whatever. I do wonder about this:

Oddly, Patricia Gaines, the founder of Nappturality.com, a pro-natural Web site, points out that dyeing one’s Afro puffs or double-strand twists blond isn’t viewed as conforming to a Euro-centric look.

I don't see why it's okay to be blond, but not to straighten your hair. Whatev.

I don't see why it's okay to be blond, but not to straighten your hair.

I don't think that blonde kinky hair looks particularly white, but I may be personally biased there. I was always startled at people who thought my hair colour could be natural, whereas sometimes you can't tell with hair texture--some people do try to pass it off as good hair.

I believe most people who say that straightening their hair isn't an aspiration to a white ideal of beauty, but I do know women who've been lying to my face when they said it too.

Bon Bon, looks like everywhere else has confirmed it.

I don't think that blonde kinky hair looks particularly white, but I may be personally biased there.

My mom had blond kinky hair as a kid, but it turned brown as a teenager. And now she dyes it blond, but also straightens it (or, at least, tries to), so it mostly just looks processed.