Culture Archive

3.20.2007 - THE BORROWERS: A naïve analysis would insist that sexually abusing a five year old is worse than spanking that same five year old, but this ignores the complexity that is mother’s milk to bad ideas. It is possible, in the complex world of the cultural sophisticate, to see the molester as a victim and the spanking parent as an aggressor, and from this nuanced view of life emerge new priorities and new punishments...  |

1.16.2007 - HANG 'EM HIGH: Murder, treason and desertion are deserving of capital punishment, but another crime is the most deserving of all: child molestation. No behavior is more reprehensible that an adult who sexually abuses a child.  It is depravity beyond measure and a fit punishment that every child molester be executed without exception. One can envision legitimate mitigating circumstances for murderers and traitors – a crime of passion, a patriot on the wrong side of victory.  No one anywhere can identify valid mitigating circumstances for a child molester.  It is the one crime for which there is no conceivable excuse... |