Except that there was no 14-year-old girl on the other end. Just a profile on a legitimate dating website and a lot of emails that tended to be:

But did your friend set up dating profiles on legitimate dating websites? Did she repeatedly send emails saying things like (paraphrasing off of memory):

I mention the looks of the computer rendered "girl" because the images didn't look like any 14-year-old girl I know.

Yes, but would he have solicited a teen if there hadn't been a detective on a legit website with a very tempting profile and fake image? (I only note the image because the photo didn't look like any 14-year-olds I know.) And when the cops seized his laptop (and every other devise with digital media storage in the…

Haha! Thanks.

Perhaps you missed the part where I clearly noted his untreated mental health issues? I just don't see how taking limited police resources to create criminals out of those actually needing mental health services then ensuring as a society that those individuals will never be able to complete their education; get a…

Oh, I agree, however:

I would rather the U.S. criminal justice system concentrate on testing rape kits; stop downgrading charges from sexual assault to something lesser so the numbers look good; stopped overcharging defendants to coerce plea deals; and probably more I am thinking of offhand.

It's very American is overdo everything.

I'm just not in favor of making things unnecessarily difficult for people to get jobs.

I don't think we should use credit scores as a condition of hiring, though. The GardenMarvel Family was hit hard for the Great Recession. My credit rating, once sterling, is now shit. Thankfully for both me and my current employer, they didn't even think to ask about that. Which is good for everyone, because I do a…

As someone who has an acquaintance on the sex offenders registry, I couldn't agree more. Some details: Young man with no insurance and untreated mental health issues answers ad online at a dating website (PoF). Teen girl looking for older man to show her the ropes! She's super duper sexy, looks like Britney Spears…

Well said.

I haven't seen the current season, but I have always liked Archer and find it fits right in line with my feminist sensibilities. Lana, Mallory and Pam are all great characters. If anything, it's the men who are weak and/or incompetent.

I recall hearing a male casting director just a few years ago describe roles for women in Hollywood thusly:

Thank you! Yes, I will include a helpful screenshot like that from now on.

I will! I will come by next Saturday and ask for Cagefreehen and you can recommend something delish.

You can dismiss assholes looking for attention, like the jack ass downthread.

I've decided they would "win" if I delete them on Facebook

Yeah, there are great things happening in Orlando, although as I've said to friends, I feel like it's still a bit hard to find sometimes. As if you have to have the secret code or something. Really, it's about following the right blogs to crack the code, then the whole cultural underground unfurls. I can find…