14 Year Old Girl Arrested For Child Pornography

Sexting. We’ve all heard about it by now. But it doesn’t end there. Combine homo-sapiens of teenage years, a primordial soup of raging hormones, lots of extra time (because we’re not busy hunting food and making shelter), an infusion of unbelievable technology that is simple to use, and what do you get? A 14 year-old girl who took nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself and posted them on her MySpace. → source

OK, so you slap the back of her hand, give her a stern warning, ground her for a week, and maybe monitor her on-line activities. Right?

Oh, you’re so wrong. The right answer is you arrest her for possession and distribution of child pornography. So there!

Let’s review. We have laws to protect children from becoming objects of pornography. A 14 year-old girl taking nude pictures of herself is considered a child pornographer. Huh! Who’s the victim?

Don’t we have more relevant issues to consider . . . like bank bailouts?

Bonuses, Suicide, Tits: Chuck Grassley Sums It Up.

Seems like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

It all began on Monday when Sen. Grassley was steamed about AIG bonuses. He suggested that AIG executives should resign or “commit suicide.” Not surprisingly, he apologized the next day by claiming that he didn’t mean suicide literally. → source

So, how can Grassley redeem himself? Easy! He throws himself a press event and utters the following sentence: “From my standpoint, it’s irresponsible for corporations to give bonuses at this time when they’re sucking the tit of the taxpayer.”

One thing is not quite clear to me. Does the sucking tit part come before committing suicide or as a result of it?

Ponzi Scheme: 1, Insider Trading: 0

As of January 14, Bernie Madoff has managed to remain out of jail and only under house arrest in his Manhattan apartment.

I know it’s still early in the investigation of this case, and that he will likely serve some prison term. But does anyone else see the irony in all this. Madoff created a $50B ponzi scheme. Countless people lost their savings and investments. His actions negatively affected the lives of others. In contrast, Martha Stewart served a 4-month jail sentence in 2004 for improperly selling (through insider trading, as it’s claimed) 4000 shares of ImClone. That action, in contrast, did not directly harm others’ well being.

Welcome to our justice system.