What jumped out at me? In a word: money. That's what the vicitims really have in common here. They had some, and the system the state maintains to process children of divorcing parents allowed this sadist to extract it from them in the most disgusting way. Predatory State indeed.

Wow. That's really all I can say. And: "Keep pushin', English.*" There is going to be a reckoning. And it's going to come from people like me. Believe me when I say, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. Reading shit like this makes me go into "burn it all down" mode. Hat tip to Kelley B.

Channeling that scene from Princess Bride here. The alternate title for this post is, "Stupid and Ugly is no way to go through life, kids. Have sex, but hold off on the marriage thing until you get some schooling, a job, and a clue." Facts:

The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates.

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.