Frank Campbell, the prosecutor, refused to prosecute the rape of a seventeen-year-old girl but did show the pictures of the assault to the families of the perpetrators and the witnesses. His excuse? There was alcohol involved.

For years, Phil Kline was the State AG and he used his position to relentlessly harass and hound Dr. George Tiller, using underage rape victims as an excuse for his panty-sniffing. Now we have this guy.

The girl and her family are suing. Seriously I'm just aghast. The perps took pictures of the rape in progress, which should have made prosecuting the rape a slam dunk, but instead the prosecutor re-violated the victim for God only knows what reason. He got six months punishment for something or other, but he should be disbarred and criminally prosecuted.

The girl and her family are suing. I hope they bankrupt the shitheel and somehow he goes to jail.

I really don't understand why women don't just rise up one day and revolt.

For further shits and giggles, once again the issue of "But what aobut the men?!" has arise on Jezebel, with the usual whining about what if men didn't want to have kids and did use BC? Pretty big what ifs, and they're always there, giving men the benefit of a doubt they haven't earned. The standard form of this debate always takes the form of people assuming the poor guy is innocent, the women is careless, and ignores reality, in which men lie, change their minds, lie some more, want biology to change to their benefit, and want to re-assert the ability to abandon women and kids like so many used condoms.

MTV has a show on about teenage mothers that illustrates this. Older men prey on younger girls, then abandon them. Teenage fathers beg girls to have babies, then change their mind too late. In real life, this is waht men do. Men want to turn every situation to their benefit, and whine that it's unfair when they don't get their way. Fact is, shit happens. Deal with it or be responsible. I've seen plenty of proof that men lie, sabotage BC, change their minds, lie some, and abandon women. Being responsible does not mean---as so many assholes have tried to twist it---that men can't have sex. In fact, they can't have plenty of sex, as long as they avoid PIV sex, or use BC all the time, or talk to their partners, or have a vasectomy, or exclusively date sterile women. Even so, there's always the risk of pregnancy. Sucks, but it's part of being a grownup. Guys want to have it all their way; condom-free PIV sex, no conversations about what if, and then being able to dump everytihng on women because OMG they didn't want to be a father. Try oral or anal sex, dudes. Hell, you might even consider being on the receiving end of some anal yourselves. Instead it's all about the vaginal penetration and condom-free ejaculation. If a guy walks drives a rattletrap car without seat belts after drinking and he runs a red light and gets smashed, it's really unfair for him to blame the woman who was abiding by the laws (of nature) and had the misfortune to run into him.

Men want to act recklessly and then skip off and once again leave women cleaning up their messes. Nope. This is just an argument for re-instating the good old days--if you were a man, that is---when men could skip off and leave women and children in poverty. I've heard cases where men lined up all their work buddies to testify that the wife they were divorcing was a whore, leaving her with nothing. What I want to know, is why do we never consider that men lie? It's always the assumption that women do all the lying. At the very least, the reality is that men have way more to gain by it, and are given the benefit of the doubt way too often. Let them prove their case. I bet most of them can't.

And no thanks, I'm not interested in yet another round of 'my best friend's nephew's girlfriend oopsed him.' Yeah, I'm sure the girl admitted it. Uh huh. When guys have every reason to lie, and society believes them, they have to prove it to me. Until then, tit for tat. They wanted equality? Let's let them walk a few miles in womens' high heels for a change.