Grunting and groaning like an old woman as I seemed to have used muscles I didn’t know I had laying the floor, I slowly bent over to pick up the paper to be greeted with more details regarding the John Karr arrest in the JonBenet Ramsey case. As details have trickled out, it’s becoming murkier and murkier as to whether he had two of the critical components of a criminal case—means and opportunity. His ex-wife swears he was in Alabama that day and a number of other rather suspicious discrepancies make it appear on the surface he is just a totally delusional, gender conflicted pedophile who may have had a fantasy relationship with JBR, but had no real connection to her. The tests of DNA will reveal all or nothing. This should fill our front pages for months to come. Which makes me think this might be another of those evil machinations of Karl Rove’s right wing conspiracy—keep the real news off the front page—the publication of which might at last allow it to sink in to all those who may actually still believe the Bush administration has a clue, that they don’t.
With instructions to wake them at 6, the kidlings rose this morning with that dazed expression that reminds me it’s good they are going back to school after being zombified for the summer on their computers/television/video games. They got it together though, strapped on the new backpacks, sharpened the pencils, and headed for the bus stop. Can’t wait to get their first day report.
Check out the new icon in “Blogs I Like” called One Mother’s Story. It was particularly moving and just one in a million stories like it.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
Published on: Aug 22, 2006
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