How about a little good news: It looks like South Dakota lawmakers are working to undo a terrible wrong. The South Dakota House of Representatives is considering a bill that will abolish the civil statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. If passed, the law will be in direct rebuttal to a 2010 law that…Continue reading Are South Dakota Lawmakers Seeing the Light?
From the Office of Keep Your Trap Shut, You Pesky Victims’ Activists: Pope Benedict yesterday espoused the virtues of silence: By remaining silent, we allow the other person to speak, to express him or herself, and we avoid being tied simply to our own words and ideas without them being adequately tested. Ah, the irony.…Continue reading Well, at least Pope Benedict is sticking to the company line
Joe Paterno’s death last weekend came as a bit of a shock and a huge disappointment. I knew he was sick, but my disappointment did not come from grief. My upset was quite different: The man at the center of the biggest child sex abuse scandal of 2011 is gone, and we will never know…Continue reading Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain: Joe Paterno and the Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis
… or go and see in theaters six months from now if you are terminally unhip like me. I have not one—but TWO—friends with documentaries at Sundance this year. Apparently, I am the perfect random, non-movie-industry person to know if you are a filmmaker. (I like to pretend I actually had something to do with…Continue reading Two Movies You Should See At Sundance
From the latest in San Diego—where a modern-day lynch mob has started to intimidate victims and their family members—click here