Monday Musings

Lots of ground to cover today...

Let's start with the twenty-nine year old who was pretending to be twelve.

This whole situation is fucked up on about a dozen levels. First of all, the guy, Neil Havens Rodreick II, doesn't look twelve. Even being EXTREMELY generous, he looks like he's in his late teens.

Now I realize that the idea of people in their twenties and thirties playing high school students on TV was popularized by 90210, but come ON. There has to be a limit somewhere. Even Dylan McKay wasn't stupid enough to still be in the seventh grade when he was 29.

Not to mention, the pedo-pervs he was living with Lonnie Stiffler and Robert James Snow, were 61 and 49 years old respectively. That's kinda robbing the cradle even if he copped to his real age. But they believed he was twelve, which, if he had been, would have been a pretty icky case of child molestation.

Those dudes seriously need to market the beer goggles that let then delude themselves into thinking that ol' Neil was twelve. For they are the BEST BEER GOGGLES EVER!!!

The ickiest thing of all about the case, however, is that these twisted geezers were UPSET when they found out the twelve year old they'd been tag-teaming was 29. Uh, guys? If he had actually been twelve, you wouldn't have gotten out of prison until he was 112. Count your blessings.

God DAMN people are strange.

In other legal news, O.J. is pissing people off again. A judge has told him in a stern voice to stop spending so fucking much money.

Of course he won't comply, and Fred Goldman will never ever get the money awarded to him for The Juice whacking his son.

OJ, Dude, I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Don't antagonize that Goldman fellow, or he WILL scrag your murdering ass. But hey, maybe that's what you want.

Next, we have two announcements of Presidential candidacy: Sam Brownback and Hillary Clinton.

Or in other words, a "Who?" and a Hillary. I'm wondering how many more "Who?"s are going to announce their candidacy in the coming months. And sure, we knew Hillary was going to run. This just makes it official. The only reason I mention it is, it brings two thoughts to mind:

A picture paints a thousand words, and sometimes a little nudge is all it takes to change history.



On to two very different killers, with two very different outcomes. Our first criminal, Nathaniel Abraham, committed murder in cold blood at age eleven. He is now twenty-one, and is a free man. Our second case involves a beautician, Martha Mata Vasquez, who injected corn oil into a woman's buttocks as a beauty treatment. The woman died, and the beautician is being sent up for fifteen years.

Can I get a hearty "What in the FUCK?!?!"? A misguided beautician is going to serve half again as much time as someone who did the premeditated murder thing? Okay, that's just wrong. I get that the poor, misunderstood killer in the first case was only eleven when he shotgunned some poor bastard to death. But I REALLY think it takes more than ten years to "fix" a kid that fucked up.

Any bets as to how long it'll be before Nathaniel Abraham is behind bars again?

And finally, in two completely unrelated stories, we have a true football fan in Chicago, and a village for homeless people in Florida.

--Chicago school teacher Colleen Pavelka knows how much her husband loves the Bears. Apparently, she loves him even more.

Colleen chose to have the birth of their second child induced a few days early so Mark Pavelka could attend Sunday's NFC Championship showdown between the Bears and the New Orleans Saints.--

Uh, okay. Seems like kind of a frivolous reason to pull the bun out of the oven early. But what do I know? Maybe it's totally okay to start a natural process in an unnatural way so your old man can go see Da Bears play.

At least the kid's okay, and the Bears won the game. Otherwise, I'm sure they'd both feel quite silly.

And,

--A controversial proposal in Daytona Beach, Fla., would create a special village to house hundreds of the county's homeless people, Local 6 News has learned.

Volusia County Council members are expected to consider a plan to build the Tiger Bay Village and treatment facility for the area's 2,500 homeless community.--

There those Florida folks go, surprising me again. First I learned that they have trailer parks in Palm Beach, and now you tell me they have homeless people in Daytona Beach.

Don't people like that know that low-lifes and swanky Florida coastal towns DO NOT MIX?

Seriously, though, I don't really see a problem with building a facility to house the homeless folks. It's better than tripping over them while they sleep on the streets in a puddle of their own piss.

I'm not totally convinced that all the homeless people will go for it, though. They have been known to be hostile to the idea of being rounded up and sent to warm, clean places where they can get three squares a day, and treatment for their "issues."

No, I don't get it either. There must be some allure to sleeping outside in a puddle of piss that I'm just not aware of.

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