joyfulchristian

Anonymity?

Apparently several Rutgers students were horribly beaten in a sorority hazing. One student says she was beaten with a paddle 201 times over the course of a few days. She was hospitalized.

The store contained this odd comment:

The pledge who spoke to The Star-Ledger did so on condition of anonymity, saying she feared retaliation. Her cousin, Khalilh Anthony, accompanied her to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, along with the pledge’s mother, saying she was appalled when she saw the injuries caused by the repeated beatings.

There were apparently only 7 pledges so it's probably not that hard to find out who's talking anyway. What sense does it make though to conceal the victim's name to protect her identity while telling the whole world who her cousin is in the next sentence?

Return to sanity for Tingles?

In a comment at Hot Air, "Skyfox" uses a unique turn of phrase to promise us that Chris Matthews seeming return to reality since the MA special election last Tuesday is short lived.

I actually hope not. There was a time when Chris Matthews was a fairly incisive liberal commentator. I certainly didn't agree with him, but there was a time that he seemed to have a fairly good understanding of the issues and could defend the liberal point of view quite intelligently. It's quite infuriating to see how he's fallen.

Our Republic needs people on both sides who can adequately defend their views to the other side. I haven't seen a lot of persuasive ability coming from the other side since Obama came along.

So apparently ...

23% of the population hasn't been paying attention.

An R in MA?

Scott Brown wins in MA! Awesome. I'm sure there will be times that us red-staters will find Brown frustrating. However, that we were able to put an R in MA is remarkable. BTW, Scott Brown is the first political candidate I've ever contributed to.

Surprise!

So my parents got us a Wii. Now I need tons of games and a bigger house!