Nuts. I broke the board.

Sorry.

I have a 9 am date with the neighbors. I should to bed go.

OK, a little behind in Dateline here and if the ::gasp:: secret turns out to be that the step mother killed the guy and buried him in the back yard I'm going to be deeply annoyed. TOTALLY not worth 20 minutes of spooky-voice from whassisname the white-haired Dateline guy.

Going back a bit, I LOVE Roomba Cat. If the batteries in my roomba weren't dead, I'd love to get Loki riding it.

OK, its looking like the shitty thing is that psycho step-mother had her poor 12 year old daughter help her quite a bit. The kid bought the sleeping pills, watched while her mother shoot him, helped get rid of the body, cleaned up the blood. That poor baby. Still not worth that much spooky-voice.

I typed without thinking. I meant I doubt that the prevalence of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church is confined just to the developed nations of the West. I'd wager that there is just as much abuse (and perhaps more) in Central and South America and Africa as there has been in the US and Europe. But it's possible that those abuses won't come to light for decades or centuries.

I think the entire hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church enables abuse of all sorts to happen. And when you run around and claim papal infallibility (with the extension of that some type of infallibility of clergy in general) then you create a system where victimization is easier to cover up.

Pics, Dana!
 
Oh, I forgot! I bought shoes! They are super cute; I need to post a pic. I buy shoes so rarely. But these should see me through the slightly dressier events. I wore them with Perkins` dress!

We need Pictures, Liese!

The coverup is what is, um, "special". That it went on so long and thoroughly at so many levels, that it's so elaborate, that they're so indignant about it. That law enforcement rarely? Never? Start getting warrants and kicking in doors.

When you'd think, or at least you'd hope, that they'd be simply HORRIFIED and rush to help the people that were hurt.

Which, actually, is what the Hare Krishnas did. When ISKCON found out there were abusers in their residential schools they shut the frikkin schools, they hired an outside investigator, they set up a fund for the victims, they bankrupted themselves cleaning out that cancer.

Predators are going to make efforts to get near vulnerable children. It is going to happen in religious institutions too. Sometimes its prosecuted, sometimes its hushed-up... but Rome's hush-up is special in its hugeness.

Now I'm watching clips from The Music Man on YouTube. That show has a whole lot of songs with really fun rhythms.