While waiting for my discharge papers, I couldn’t help but hear the story of a woman adjacent to me in the emergency room.

Severe headaches, halucinations… the cause? Her husband slamming her repeatedly in the head with the butt of his rifle. This happened on Sunday. She was there that night with the State Police for evidence, to be treated, and to issue an arrest warrant for the husband.

She came back yesterday. Whatever they gave her wasn’t strong enough. AND her husband is still on the loose. He seems to “get away” every time they decide to get off their asses to look for him.

Think the Poconos are bad on New Yorkers? Try being a woman.

They’re very slow to arrest an abusive husband… and yes, this is sadly a fact of life all over the country. When a husband seeks to kill someone they once loved, orders of protection are totally useless. That’s another sad fact in the United States.

But ladies… miss a child support payment in the Poconos, and they will throw the fucking books at you. It doesn’t matter. Monroe County Correctional Facility is filled to the brim with women who don’t pay child support… doesn’t matter how many kids are in that house as you’re hauled away.

One such case was a woman who had four children, two were with her, two were with him. He never gave her a dime of child support, she wanted very little to do with him.

But that’s irrelevant. He filed charges and she didn’t. She did three months.

Another amazing tale was Linda Fogle. Her husband, James Proctor… unemployed, in a trailer filled with garbage & cat shit, beat his 3-month old baby to death because she wouldn’t stop crying.

Well, a life sentence for Proctor wasn’t enough for the Monroe County legal system, was it? Why not go after the mother who worked two jobs to keep the family afloat?

“‘Linda was out busting her ass, and now this,’ said Donna Fogle, referring to the fact that her daughter worked while Proctor stayed in the trailer. ‘He trashed the place, not Linda,’ she said.”

Well goddamn it… Linda should have been the “happy homemaker”, as well as the breadwinner and bill payer. Proctor was the “man of the house”, he shouldn’t have to do sissy & menial stuff like clean & babysit his own kids. That was *HER* job too.

At least that’s what the judge thought.

“Glaring directly at Fogle, [President Judge] Vican asked rhetorically, ‘Why would you allow these children to live under such deplorable conditions ?’…”
“Calling Fogle ‘lazy, stupid and unconcerned’ for the welfare of her children, Vican told her, ‘You had no right to impose that (squalor) on your children.’..”

Actually, his exact words were “irresponsible bitch”, according to the reporter.

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Ahhhh… I love the smell of Napalm in the morning….

Percudani, companies sue newspaper again

“STROUDSBURG - A new defamation suit against the Pocono Record and reporter Matt Birkbeck, focusing on the newspaper’s Web site, was filed this month by Gene P. Percudani and his companies, Raintree Homes and Chapel Creek Mortgage Banker, Inc.”

More specifically, he’s annoyed at my running the Pocono Record Special Report: A price TOO HIGH.

While the report focuses quite a bit on Raintree Homes (aka “Y-Rent“), it hardly (in my PERSONAL opinion) singles Raintree out as the “only” builder doing this. The website version is no different. I have to half wonder if he plans on going after WABC (N.Y.C.) and the New York Daily News too.

Bring it on, Percudani.

“OMG!!! She was so ugly, she looked like she was just hit with a hot bag of ‘ What the Fuck ‘…!!!!!!”

Well, my first day as a Mutated Self-Aware Computer Virus didn’t go as well as I had hoped. The first thing I learned is that you can’t expect to wipe out 120,000 hard drives when you pass yourself along in an email with the subject: “I’M A VIRUS!!!! CLICK ME, YOU ASSHOLE!!!”.

Ok. Three people on AOL fell for it.

The Next trip was trying to cheer up poor, sickly, KittyBat, who had her first BatChat last night. The instructions were really hard for moronspeople to follow, so I made a loverly graphic, with even more specific instructions. (LinkMeister did the same on the Z-List Blog)

Problem is it took me so damn long, that by the time I was done posting it, everyone went home.
But it was a pretty nice turn out. Even if they were all nervous because, well, a virus was in the chat room flirting with them.

Then next stop was The SickSider’s new home…

I didn’t mean to do it…
Everyone was having fun with the Microsoft-proprietary “Marquee” tag. So I did it. ‘cept I forgot to close my tag, and poor Kimberly’s entire page was whizzing all over the place and no one else could comment!

I wasn’t even worth a writeup on SARC.

All the other trojans & worms were teasing me and calling me a “hoax”…. :0(

It was more like “Night of the Idiot”.
Gonna be a better virus tonight. Watch.

Secundum Quid - Latin for “according to something”. If you’ve taken Logic in college, it’s also the concept of “Drawing a conclusion based on insufficient information”.

For example:
Fact #1 Mad people belong in an institution.
Fact #2 The flat tire made Mr. Jones mad.
Conclusion: Mr. Jones belongs in an institution.

Or from the IQ test:
“If some quips are quods, and all quos are quods…
Then some quips are quos?”
Makes sense to assume so, doesn’t it?

Unless you replace the words with:
“If some fish are mammals, and all dogs are mammals…
Then some fish are dogs?”

Once you grasp the concept of “Secundum Quid” you can alter the very fabric of reality… using your enemy’s own flawed thinking *against* them.

So now I pose to you… is the web fake?
Is everyone on the web a phony?

Do you have enough information to draw that conclusion?
Do you have enough information to draw that conclusion with those you know in real life?

There’s three sides to every story. One side, the other side (both using secundum quid, based solely on their perspective.), and somewhere in the middle is a thin, grey line called “the PURE truth”.

Rarely (if ever) do you see that side of the story. Even in real life “the history books are written by the winners”.

Weblogs are one-sided accounts based on the perspective of ONE person. You will know *only* what they want you to know. See *only* what they want you to see.

• Conclusion #1: The web is as real, or as fake, as you want it to be.
• Conclusion #2: Your entire LIFE, as you know it, is a LIE, based on your finite & limited point of view.
  How many times in your life were you “the last to know”?
• Conclusion #3: Eric didn’t write this to clarify anything… he just wanted to fuck you up for the rest of your life with this little tidbit of knowledge.

Everything you know, is because someone told you it is so…
Think about it.
Pleasant dreams! :0)

Sheeesh… you would think on this… the HOLIEST of all days, the gOdOfMiScHiEf would be planning something pretty damn spectacular right about now.

Too busy… maybe next year.

So you will have to settle for reruns here on Enemy of the State…

You see, before there was a gOdOfMiScHiEf… there was Rik Havyk.

Rik was a wild woman, the “girl of your wet dreams“. She’d be free to chat with you on AOL, cyber any guy who caught her profile, she knew what you wanted, and you can trust her your deepest, darkest secrets… just so she can post it on a web page for all to see!

Here’s something for you guys to, uh, think about…. Rik Havyk was really a GUY.
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