NBC has these To Catch a Predator segments on their Dateline NBC. They work with an organization that acts as children in chat rooms (or other ways) and wait for someone to arrange for sex. Obviously with a minor.

Now I am all for stings to catch people who want to have sex with kids, but making this into an entertainment sensation?

This just makes me want to find these people, arrange meetings with them, and when they jump out of the bushes pull out a t-shirt that says “Hello Dateline!”

Another busy weekend. At noon I start my way to the College Democrats of Wisconsin convention. That goes until I get back tomorrow night.

I decided to forgo French this morning. I was ready for it, but I have some more stuff I would like to get done (posting this was not one of them)

Here is a wonderful write up about interning/working for Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo.

I always wanted to work for Google doing something. Maybe someday.

[ From Slashdot ]

So the war is costing money. A lot of money…

I have a proposal.

War Tax!

A flat tax where everyone in America is required to submit a check every single month to deal with the war on terror. No war bonds, nothing like that… a tax that every single American has to pay to fund this war.

In fact, your employer has to tell you every single paycheck exactly how much of your paycheck is going to the “Iraq War Fund.” They have to call it that too.

I like the idea. You voted for this idiot and his policies, you get to fucking pay for it! That way, I’m not stuck with the debt to China for the next 100 years.

I was talking last Friday with a guy who went to high school with me who became a born again Christian. Having just come from a Philosophy of Religion class (which I have in a half hour) I got into a discussion about Christianity with him. I told him that I was somewhat agnostic (questioning my belief in a higher power) but I grew up catholic and thought that the catholic way of life was reasonable (although I disagree with quite a bit of it.)

I brought up how there is no way you can know that there is a god. He said that god will show himself to you. He made the claim that satin exists and that the actions we do on earth, especially the ones that democrats support (abortion, gay marriage) will prevent me from ascending to heaven.

Wow. OK. So I’m destined to hell.

So of course I picked up the South Park defense of heaven and hell. I told him that he is going to hell because he wasn’t baptized into the one true church, the Catholic church. Then I said that we were both going to hell because we do not pray to the prophet Muhammad, and that we will never be reincarnated, or become one with the earth, or have our theatens saved from Xenu, or whatever.

Arug.