Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

Down Time

Well, I finally have some time off – and I’m having surgery. I have no idea how long I’ll be laid up, or how out of it I’ll be. I am reasonably certain I won’t be posting for a few days. John left a comment on the harsh punishment we have here for people caught […]

That Does It!

Those pesky Israeli’s derailing the peace process again: JERUSALEM – A Palestinian gunman broke into a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Friday and opened fire in a home where a family was marking the Jewish New Year, killing a man and a toddler and shattering Israel’s efforts to maintain calm over the holiday […]

Another Good One Gone

One of my favorite actors from one of my favorite movies died yesterday. Donald O’Connor 1925-2003 ✏

Yeah, so?

From Chuck Shepherd: Arizona law treats selling, downloading, trading or buying child pornography as the equivalent of actually molesting a child, with a penalty of 10 to 24 years per count, with multiple counts to run consecutively, and two high school teachers (convicted of photos-only, no child interaction) are now serving 200 and 408 years […]

Additional Victims

The Alameda County coroner’s office is investigating the case of an 18- year-old East Bay woman who died Wednesday, days after reportedly taking the abortion pill RU-486. The victim’s father told The Chronicle that his 18-year-old daughter had gotten a prescription for RU-486 at a Planned Parenthood office in Hayward on Sept. 10 to end […]

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