Objectivity is the Objective

This is an article that shouldn’t need to be written, but sadly, in our country today, it does. Remember, the good old days, when everybody – right, left, middle, Republican, Democrat, Independent, liberal, conservative, you name it – could all agree on this one thing – pedophilia was wrong; it was not only wrong, it was evil. Pedophiles were the lowest form of life. Pedophiles were so bad, so evil that in prison, the most violent, hardened criminals, viewed their actions tow

In the 1921 movie, The Kid, Charlie Chaplin plays a “Tramp” who is working in-cahoots with a “Kid” who walks around town throwing stones at houses and businesses shattering their windows. Shortly thereafter, The Tramp, working as a window-repairman, shows up and fixes the window for a price. The Kid creates the problem, Charlie Chaplin fixes it, and the homeowner pays. There is a criminology theory called the “broken window theory” which asserts that visible signs of crime an

No one in the media seemed to care. In fact, the people and the politicians who tried to get the media to care, who tried to get justice for his victims, were vilified, and even ruined. We were told his illegal behavior was “just sex”, “boys being boys”, “it didn’t rise to the level of impeachment”, or “a vast right-wing conspiracy”. Nothing to see here. Move on. The media did not treat 1988 Democratic Presidential hopeful Gary Hart that way when it was revealed that he was h