The third Alabama church arsonist has been nabbed. And it's official: it was drunk teenagers all along. Not supremacists (only one church was black, much to the surprise of everyone I've talk to about this), not Satanists, nor atheists with an agenda. Drunk, shaggy-haired, frat boys on a tear.

Even more interesting is that white church arson is, by a large margin, the most prevalent kind of church arson: according to the Christian Science Monitor, the black churches, synagogues, and mosques that make the headlines as targets of arson and vandalism are actually the exception to the rule, whereas white churches constitute most of the 20-odd cases of church arson a year.

Then there's this annoying crap. Fine, churches are private property, whatever. But what "victims" is this article referring to who need outreach? Nevermind, don't answer me. I don't want to waste another second thinking about it.

I get so much shit for my views on the troops, but one cannot ignore the menace that masses of returning troops present to civilized society. There are plenty of stories of Iraq vets coming home and killing their wives, each other, robbing and raping -- and the war is still going on. It's not just Iraqis and Americans who are suffering at the hands of these animals, as they are also stationed all around the world in US bases. From Tuesday's Washington Post:

A U.S. soldier who raped a Nigerian woman in Italy was given a lighter sentence because the court deemed his tour of duty in Iraq had made him less sensitive to the suffering of others.

The crime would have earned him an eight-year sentence, but the judges reduced the penalty due to the "extenuating circumstances" of the psychological effects of Brown's year of service in Iraq, the document said.

He beat her and raped her in every orifice she had and then dumped her to wander the streets of Italy, a black woman, completely naked. I understand the reason to feel sorry...possibly...for this disgusting creature, probably some kind of borderline-inbred piece of trailer trash shoved into the military by the lethal combination of patriotism and a sharp recruiter, but I certainly don't see a reason to return him to the streets. If he can't be remanded into a psychiatric ward for the rest of his life, I plead to the Italian authorities, on the basis of the acute danger this person poses to the innocent inhabitants of this world, to summarily execute James Michael Brown. Thank you.