Foley

Well, I read the Foley email/instamessage exchange with the underage page. I've taken four showers since and still don't feel clean, but I knew the risk going in.

What's there to say that hasn't been said? Nothing, except maybe this: The page ain't no Bambi. He's a teenage pervert. How old was he during these email exchanges? 16? That's old enough to know right from wrong. If my 13-year-old boy said/did such things, I'd tan him. He knows better, and so did that poor, poor underage page. This page is apparently a bi-sexual (does any biped). I have a hard time believing that Foley twisted him. I'll wager $1,000 that the kid was twisted when he got to D.C., Foley recognized it, and tried to capitalize off it. It's exactly what I think happened with the majority of the priestly abuse cases: the kids were ripe for the picking, for whatever reason (often, no decent father figure in their family), and the priests capitalized off it. Foley and the priests are despicable, but I'm tired of all the explicit or implicit sympathy for the poor teenage boys. They know better.