Miscellany...
Category: News Commentary...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 at 05:53 AM [GMT-6]

KSM rats out OBL...Coming soon to a website near you...Trouble in Islamic Paradise?

Well, that didn't take long! Either the PsyOps guys are even better at their jobs than I figured, or Mohammed is a bigger weenie than I hoped, or...he's lying. This is where the real games begin, isn't it?

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states can publish photos and other personal information about convicted sex offenders on websites. Showing great common sense, the 6-3 majority ruled that such laws are intended to inform and protect the public, not humiliate the offender (the latter being an inevitable outcome, assuming that such people are actually humiliate-able).

The Texas Department of Public Safety has long provided an online database of sex offenders. However, Ector County has plans to bring this capability into a more local setting. The Ector County Community Supervision & Corrections Department (aka Adult Probation) will soon have a section on its new website where the photos and other information about local sex offenders will be posted for public access. Even now, you can see a list of people who have skipped out on their probation ("absconders," they call them) and notify the CSCD if you know of the whereabouts of any of them. If Midland County has similar resources or plans, I couldn't locate them.

Then there's this great story about the "dialog" between Iraqi and Kuwaiti representatives at a Mideast Islamic summit. One thing you have to admit about folks in the Middle East...they have a certain flair for curses.