France’s culture minister had this to say about the arrest of Roman Polanski:

Mr Mitterrand said the US’ behaviour, in seeking his extradition, was callous and “horrifying”.

And this is what Mitterrand said in a book he published several years ago:

In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: “I got into the habit of paying for boys,” saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing “the sordid details of this traffic”.

“All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously… the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire.”

I thought it was pretty funny that Woody Allen was a Polanski supporter, but this…

Hat Tip: Althouse

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In the blogging community the only “lifeform” lower than a troll is the infamous sockpuppet.  For those unfamiliar with the term, Wiki defines it this way:

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community. In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks with or about himself or herself, pretending to be a different person,^[1] like a ventriloquist manipulating a hand puppet.

There are many real world examples of people caught engaging in sockpuppetry to the detriment of their professional careers.

I welcome any and all comments and points of view.  I expect people to be respectful of each other and I trust anyone commenting here is more than capable of defending themselves and their opinions.

I will not tolerate sockpuppets at LTG.  I sign my name to what I write here, because I decided from day one that if I was not willing to stand behind my words, my words were meaningless.  I respect the fact that some folks use pseudonyms as a matter of comfort or necessity, and that is fine.

But creating a sockpuppet identity to support your own arguments or to personally attack another commenter is in my opinion a chickenshit thing to do.

So it stops now.

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