Take a look. After years of being an online billboard for the prostitution of children and adults, Craigslist has finally dropped its adult services section. Children right here from this county have been offered for sale on that site complete with pictures and a quick and easy way to connect at a hotel or motel. All it took was money.
You can buy almost anything for money. Think about it. What could be more evil than selling innocent little children for the sexual gratification of men — most are male — with perverted ideas about sex. Some of these worms even have children of their own. I find it impossible to thank Craigslist and Craig Newmark, its founder, for dropping the practice.
That would be like thanking a torturer for agreeing to stop hurting people. Another bit of good news is that a bill authored by state Sen. Fran Pavley is on Gov. It will plug a hole in the law and stop makers of jewelry for kids to stop using dangerous cadmium as a substitute for lead, another dangerous product. Well almost. It starts Friday. Remember that loose-cannon preacher Terry Jones, who was going to start a bonfire of Korans at his church in Gainesville, Fla.
I guess saner minds put the fear of God in him. There are online items saying Jones graduated in from Cape Girardeau, Mo. But I remember one Halloween in a town not far away, when I helped winch an outhouse to the top of the two-story high school.
The outhouse, I mean. So the Terry and Rush thing is all coincidence. Just a couple of loudmouths. A while back when I wrote a column about Audie Murphy, one of the Americans I most admire, a reader called and suggested he would be a perfect candidate to be on a postage stamp.
