It's also essentially suburb. It's on I-77 which runs from Cleveland about 40 minutes south to Akron with solid development between the two. Which basically puts this close to the geographic center of a combined metro area of about 3 million people. If she had her license she could drive about 20 minutes and be in…

The key phrase is "to the extent." That does not imply that the amount of persecution I face is comparable to that of a sex offender. It implies that I have felt some degree of it and that allows me to empathize with sex offenders.

I don't think it is. Empathy implies that I can put myself in their shoes. And to the extent that I've had my dignity and worth as a human being questioned and devalued over the years I can empathize with them.

Empathy for people who haven't committed terrible acts is easy and isn't really much of an exercise in compassion at all. Empathy for people others write off as monsters? That's much, much harder.

Cop cops cop cops.

Nothing compared to the garbage fire of glee that was the media coverage of her breakdown. The only thing this country likes more than putting pretty young women on sexualized pedestals is viciously tearing them off those pedestals when real, adult life happens to them.

You're saying Ben and Glory are connected?

Yep. I'm always convinced every region is just about to slip out of my grasp no matter the board state.

It's a brutal, slow, slog and it's gee dee brilliant. Break-out-in-a-cold-sweat-when-faced-with-impossible-decision-after-impossible-decision brilliant.