I just noticed a couple news stories in Google news that I thought had weird headlines.

Lawyer: Mother would kill man in Las Vegas child rape video case

Dude molests little girl, captures it on video, gets caught and identified, and this is the headline?

Are we supposed to be surprised that the mom would kill the perpetrator? Are we supposed to be disgusted with her proposed vigilante justice?

There might be some other motive, but read the first line of the story.

"The mother of a 3-year-old girl raped in an explicit homemade videotape is so angry that she would kill her daughter's assailant if she could."

Wow, that does sound angry.

So I guess out of all this, we're supposed to take away that the lady is unstable or irrational or something. Although, I'm pretty sure 99% of mothers in the same situation would say the same thing. I mean, I'd probably kill the guy given the chance, and I haven't even been effected by the case.

There are a couple other things to learn from this story as well.

Child molesters are dumb. This may seem obvious - I mean, they are child molesters after all, but why video tape yourself? Hey, I'm going to do something really illegal and make sure I create tons of evidence that points back to me!

And it's not just this Las Vegas guy - look at this guy:

Too dumb to use photoshop properly. I guess he never stopped to think that if he twirled the face in his child-molestation vacation photos, someone could simply come along and untwirl it. You don't even have to do anything special - I mean, it's an actual feature in photoshop.

Another sentence from the story caught my eye: "Stiles was about to have been named one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives before he was apprehended..."

That reminds me of Brian Adler, a kid in my high school debate class from many years ago, who used to debate that the FBI's "most wanted" program was really a list of the criminals who were "most likely to be caught." You know, inspire confidence in the FBI by catching all of the top criminals.