Slog - Comments on Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father, Headline of the Day, There Is No Morality Without Religion, Etc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56 Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks in Wis. Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday. The children—a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy—cried hysterically Wednesday after a deputy who came to their Necedah home looking for Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth ordered them out because of the stench from her body.... When Deputy Leigh Neville-Neil arrived at the house, she encountered Lewis,... Copyright 2008 Sat, 10 May 2008 13:35:02 -0800 Mon, 12 May 2008 02:52:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ryan When the deputy opened the last closed door, she smelled “decaying matter” and noticed something piled on what appeared to be a toilet.

When you gotta go, you gotta go. She went, and never came back.

Meanwhile, God released a statement: "They believed that prayer would reanimate the corpse? Good me, that's just stupid."

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021952 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 13:56:29 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Trust me, I speak from experience when I tell you that once they've been dead for a few weeks, you don't want them coming back to life.

Werd.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021953 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 13:57:41 -0800 Comment by yucca flower @2,

Clearly these people have never watched a zombie/mummy slasher flick.

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021959 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021959 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 14:24:53 -0800 Comment by Wolf Y'know, much as I miss him, I don't think I'd want my Terry coming back now. I think he'd smell pretty bad.

Dan, is there a link to the full news story available? And in case you missed it in the other post, thanks for the condolences. It means a lot.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021961 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021961 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 14:27:45 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two- Eighty I blame the Chinese.

]]> Fifty-Two- Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021964 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 14:34:18 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell Muedede should write the script, and PLEASE cast Karen Black as the mother of the teenagers!

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021969 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 14:54:50 -0800 Comment by David K. Remember that great quote from Alfred Hitchcock:

"If the dead were to come back,
What would you do with them?"

I do!

]]> David K. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021975 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021975 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 15:40:04 -0800 Comment by Bob So, there's no father here just an insane mother ... hmmm ... is that the real point(lessness) of the Every Child posts ... mother hate? That JUST DADS are the way to go?

How insidious and what obviously wrong timing.

Hope ma likes the orange rose bush I got her.

]]> Bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021980 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 16:04:09 -0800 Comment by Jade No no, Sheriff, she just really got a problem with her bowels, she'll be up and about in no time!

I would have run away from home, and trust me, I would have NO intention of letting my mother handle the "funeral" plans. Urk.

]]> Jade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1021985 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 16:20:34 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Needs more pitbull.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022006 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022006 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 19:24:03 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave HAHA, needs more pitbull

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022008 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 20:15:17 -0800 Comment by ellarosa corpse piled on top of the toilet of their home's only bathroom? where was everybody doing their business--in the bushes?

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022017 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022017 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 21:13:04 -0800 Comment by bob Speaking of religion, I can't wait to hear Hagee explain how the tornadoes were God's punishment against the people of Missouri and Oklahoma. Funny how it never works that way though.

]]> bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022041 Hetero Sat, 10 May 2008 23:48:45 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark @13, Touche...Fuck all the preachers who declare that natural disasters are caused by sinners. They should be struck down by God.

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022062 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 05:45:34 -0800 Comment by Vince Isn't it funny how some of these religious types give up their common sense whenever "God" is mentioned. There must be an explanation for this like it's some sort of adaptation for survival of the species. It would seem counter to that, but a kind of hypnosis that people fall under.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022063 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 06:01:34 -0800 Comment by Elvis If there really was a God, He sure as shit would have smitten Savage years ago.

]]> Elvis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022076 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 08:43:16 -0800 Comment by meh @15 The mechanism you describe can convince people to stop behaving in their own self interest, which can be good in situations where what's best for the individual conflicts with what's best for the society. So there's your survival-of-the-fittest-ideology explanation.

Of course, it can also convince people to do batshit insane things that are in nobody's best interest, as this article attests.

]]> meh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022090 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022090 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 10:39:27 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Elvis wrote "If there really was a God, He sure as shit would have smitten Savage years ago."

Possibly, assuming that God is young, hairless, and fairly androgynous.

Angry, Old Testament God would have just smote him.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022155 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022155 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 14:45:20 -0800 Comment by shaneingreenlake Shes just sleepin.

Should be noted that Bushey is a "self-proclaimed bishop".

]]> shaneingreenlake http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022245 Hetero Sun, 11 May 2008 22:43:13 -0800 Comment by count d20 I guess she wasn't high enough level, that or she didn't have 2,000 gold worth of diamonds.

]]> count d20 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_56#c1022256 Hetero Mon, 12 May 2008 02:52:53 -0800