The Washington Post published Five things to know about Delaware’s election, noting that there are no Bidens on the ballot and noting that Beau Biden has gotten large contributions from Peter Angelos and the Buccini Brothers. They also note that Brenda Mayrack seems to be cruising in this primary and that Kevin Wade might be tilting at windmills. Smink has a COD endorsement? Yikes.
What is it with conservatives rallying around their worst elements? The conservative culture tolerates a great deal of dysfunction, especially the kind of dysfunction that preys on children. If Biden’s office can make this case, they damn well better bring it.
Friends and supporters of Eric Bodenweiser are mounting a public campaign to dissuade prosecutors from re-trying his sex abuse case after the first trial ended in a hung jury.
The backers launched a website, freebodie.com, which reviews the trial’s testimony in a light favorable to Bodenweiser, 55, of Georgetown. The site allows visitors to sign a digital petition calling on Attorney General Beau Biden to halt work towards a second trial. Prosecutors announced on July 15 that they would re-try him.
This has got to count as one of the biggest overreactions ever:
Early last week the school board was alerted that one of its eighth grade language arts teachers at Mace’s Lane Middle School had several aliases. Police said that under those names, he wrote two fictional books about the largest school shooting in the country’s history set in the future. Now, Patrick McLaw is placed on leave.
Dr. K.S. Voltaer is better known by some in Dorchester County as Patrick McLaw, or even Patrick Beale. Not only was he a teacher at Mace’s Lane Middle School in Cambridge, but according to Dorchester Sheriff James Phillips, McLaw is also the author of two books: “The Insurrectionist” and its sequel, “Lillith’s Heir.”
Those books are what caught the attention of police and school board officials in Dorchester County. “The Insurrectionist” is about two school shootings set in the future, the largest in the country’s history.
Phillips said McLaw was taken in for an emergency medical evaluation. The sheriff would not disclose where McLaw is now, but he did say that he is not on the Eastern Shore. The same day that McLaw was taken in for an evaluation, police swept Mace’s Lane Middle School for bombs and guns, coming up empty.
The teacher here has not been arrested or charged with anything — yet according to this, law enforcement will be at this school for the near future. Still, there’s got to be a difference between writing about a school shooting because you are indulging in a fantasy you want to live out vs. writing fiction as Art. I mean, there are plenty of movies that take school violence as their subject and most of them are not 400 years in the future. How many of the creators of these are under surveillance from law enforcement? There may be more to this story, but I really hope this man has a Very Good Lawyer.
I’m just going to put this out here:
