8565 - Hump-day dump-day, sat on a wall.

I've discovered that the bus can have so much background noise that I can't hear my episodes of House or old time radio (Boston Blackie, or the Naked City, currently) on the ride back home. I don't notice the excessive sound until I try to listen to something on the cell phone or ear buds.

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Not to be too snarky, but I'd like next year to be "talk like a ninja day", and for everyone to not say *anything* meme related for a day. (Myself included.)

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Moment of Lyric

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Some entertaining John Byrne Quotes. Some I'd never seen before.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife. ( Read more... )

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Thanks to Beaucoupkevin for his pointing me to Brandon Bragg's Armed Gorilla Week, and Chris Sims's gorilla with guns. Also that Harlan Ellison is suing Fantagraphics. Poor grumpy old dude. Groovy writer, lame human being.

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1 year ago - rita - schools closed, buses don't run, caramel creams, hamster ball gun, cork soakers, political test, poopdeck, hurricane news, browardnoaa, beauty products made from executed chinese prisoners, lj interests meme, big bunny

2 years ago - sema photo, Prisoner / Columbo, Brazil / slavery, mirrors, sneaky work pic

3 years ago - Button Men, Cully, on the bridge, jeb, weight loss, scampi, ready for 'ween

4 years ago - mst, ipod, hubzilla, cancer research, newton screen saver, cool paper models, riker vs riaa, palm doodle

5 years ago - annus mirabilis, phoons, nice weather, burger king, WHAT IS GRIMACE poll

6 years ago - UAS, Hodey-ohten-doten-day, 7 deadly sins

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8567 - Stats

Registered Sex Offender Counts by State

This list contains the actual number of offenders that are publicly viewable in the official state registries.

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The sad facts about sex offenses and those that perpetrate them.


* 1 of 5 girls will be sexually molested before her 18th birthday.
* 1 of 6 boys will be sexually molested before his 18th birthday.
* 1 of 5 children have been propositioned for sex over the Internet.
* 2 of 3 sexual abuses are perpetrated against teenagers or younger children.
* 90% of sexual assaults are committed against someone the perpetrator knows.
* The median age for male molestation victims under 18 is 9.8 years old.
* The median age for female molestation victims under 18 is 9.6 years old.
* There are new 400,000 victims of sexual assault every year.
* There are over 550,000 registered sex offenders in the US.
* There are over 100,000 sex offenders that fail to register in the US.
* 76% of serial rapists claim they were molested as children.
* Over 40% of male juvenile delinquents were molested as children.
* The typical sexual predator will assault 117 times before being caught.
* The re-arrest rate for convicted child molesters is 52%.

Sources:

Russell, D.E.H. and Bolen, R.M., 2000. The Epidemic of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in the United States. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications.

Snyder, H.N., U. S. Department of Justice Statistics, 2000. Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics.

Center for Sex Offender Management, (2001). Recidivism of Sex Offenders, Full Report and Statistics.

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