Paedophile to challenge Facebook over NI monitoring page
A convicted sex offender is due to challenge Facebook Ireland over a page set up by users to monitor convicted paedophiles. The BBC has the story here.
Kelley was kind enough to send me a link to a St. Petersburg (FL) Times special report about an all boys reform school. For Their Own Good They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — that’d straighten them out….
A sex offender who wanted to conceal his history and then-current child sexual abuse accusation from his wife at the end of last year, murdered her last January. Today, he was sentenced at Preston Court to life, serving just under 20 years separately to the abuse charges which he admitted. Read the story at The…
This is not good news for the mental health advocates who want us to believe that things “happen for a reason”, and that we grow from our pain. It’s really just not true. “In 2003, before the natural disasters, none of the studied Chileans displayed any signs of PTSD or depression. But, by 2011, 9.1%…
“3,961 people from 29 different studies were included in the analysis. Depression is more than a mental disorder, it affects the body’s ability to detoxify itself. It should be seen as a systematic disease that affects the whole body, argues a new study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.” And yet, there are still far…
PC Stephen Mitchell was a corrupt English police officer who raped or assaulted up to 16 girls and women between 17 and 48. He was jailed for life for these attacks at the start of the year, plus the associated coercion and in one case, passing drugs on to one of the victims as the…
My first thought, obviously, was about the workplace and the culture we have created there that rewards being “always-on” but I think so much of this pressure permeates beyond work. As technology has become commonplace we all live with this pressure and this expectation. Think about it, how many times in a given week are you apologizing to friends and family because you couldn’t get back to them right away?
I do it all the time.
Heck, I’ve gotten text messages while having lunch or dinner with a friend, catching up with someone I haven’t gotten to see much for the last couple of years, and then apologized for doing that and being unavailable. Why? That makes no sense but we live in a culture where being connected to technology all the time also means that we should be responsive all the time. Or at least we feel like we should. Frankly, that’s a lot of pressure.