In Canada a judge has ordered a man not to have a girlfriend for three years as a result of the man’s abuse towards his former girlfriends. Here’s the story:

Judge Orders Man Not to Have Girlfriend
AP
PETERBOROUGH, Ontario (June 14) - A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years.

The ruling came after Steven Cranley pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges stemming from an assault on a former girlfriend.

Cranley, who has been diagnosed with a dependent personality disorder, attacked his girlfriend in an argument after their breakup.

He tried to prevent her from phoning the police by cutting her phone cord and punched and kicked her. He finally stabbed himself with a butcher knife when police did arrive, puncturing his aorta.

Doctors say Cranley has difficulty coping with rejection and runs a high risk to re-offend if he becomes involved in another intimate relationship.

Justice Rhys Morgan said Cranley “cannot form a romantic relationship of an intimate nature with a female person.

“That is the only way I can see the protection of the public is in place until you get the counseling you need.”

Cranley had already served 146 days in pre-trail custody, which Morgan said was enough jail time in this case.

His lawyer says the no girlfriend order is the first of its kind that he has encountered.

OMG, I’ve had a boyfriend or two who could have used a few minutes in THAT judge’s courtroom. I remember a guy in high school who wouldn’t let me leave a swimming pool. He kept pulling me back in and trying to get a feel. Finally some other friends came to the pool, and I was able to leave. Then the guy called me incessantly. Even as an adult, I’ve had a stalker-esque boyfriend. Once I recognized his tendencies, I dropped him, but he made it difficult.

I think the judge made a mistake, Hazel. He said the man couldn’t have an intimate relationship with a “female person.” Now the guy will just go gay for three years. What do you think?

Hiya Hazel,

You know when we were talking about blogging the other day, we mentioned looking at some of the big blogs and seeing what they’re up to. Studying people who are successful might help us be better bloggers.

So I looked in the TTLB ecosystem and checked out some of the biggies. I’ll do a series of posts on them. The first is the Daily Kos. He’s right at the top of the ecosystem.

First of all, you can quickly see that the writers lean to the left in their politics. They REALLY don’t have much use for old GW. Here are a couple quotes from today’s posts:

. . . get back to retaking our country from the neanderthals running it into the ground.

The insular nature of the Bush administration is such that we’ve become amazed when they are forced to concede that the sky is blue (for now). We all live with such lowered expectations, that an agreement to talk, with no real concessions at all, is “a big success

Political blogging apparently is popular because Daily Kos has a high volume of traffic and comments along with an abundance of ads, too.

Plus, the Daily Kos folks are prolific writers. So far today there have been eight different posts. I wonder if that’s typical. Of course they have a group of writers. So it’s not like one person is cranking out all that rhetoric alone.

Parts of it were interesting, but the overall tone of the Daily Kos seemed a bit strident and angry - which is too bad. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. But you know there’s another old saying that misery loves company. Maybe that accounts for the traffic and number of comments. But personally, I wasn’t very impressed.

I’ll check out a few more of the top blogs in the TTLB Ecosystem and let you know what I think about them. Check back later.

See ya,

I have spent today working on the computer and getting almost NOTHING done. It’s been one of those frustrating days when there is an extra space, or an extra bracket, or not a bracket, or an extra dot, or some piece of code either there or not there that has the whole thing not working.

Very frustrating!

I worked on it until I was ready to throw the computer off my back porch right smack dab into the middle of my pool. Then I would walk away for a while and do something else. But I just couldn’t stay away, I kept coming back trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to get the code all working properly.

I still don’t know what was wrong. The little bug finder thing kept telling me that it couldn’t read embedded code. I kept taking code out and putting it back in. Finally, I took the Technorati code out and it worked!!! Hooray! But then, how will the dadgume page ranking gizmos read the 10 or so links that link here? So I put Technorati back in, held my breath, and it still worked.

It’s dumbfounding. Really.

So now my eyes are all hazy and my brain is in a daze.

The upside is that I watched Baby Lisa nab a bad guy on Dog the Bounty Hunter while I was doing and undoing blog code. I wonder how the bad guys don’t notice all the cameras following her while she’s lurking around the airport incognito?? It’s a mystery, I guess.

Dammit, Hazel! Did you realize that beer bottles are dangerous. So I was standing in the kitchen awhile ago - barefoot - and I opened the refrigerator to get some lettuce and carrots for a salad - and the bag of lettuce bumped against a bottle of beer that was on the top shelf. Suddenly there was a crash, I felt a stab of pain in my big toe - and there was beer, foam and glass all over the floor. MSSO (My Sexy Significant Other) was sitting in the recliner watching TV. He jumped up and asked if I was all right.

“I’m fine,” I assured him. But then I noticed some streaks of red trailing on the floor. My toe was bleeding — blood flowing steadily out of my foot. Not a trickle - a flow. I grabbed a paper towel and held it against the cut, but as soon as I would take away the paper towel, blood would immediately start flowing down my foot again. Seriously - after about 15 minutes I was afraid I’d have to go to the emergency room for stitches. I couldn’t get it to stop. Finally it did - as long as I kept pressure on it. I wrapped a white gauze bandage around it - tightly wrapping it around my foot and tying it in a bow at my ankle. Even a bandage can be a little glamorous…right?

But the thing is, I think MSSO felt a little guilty. He commented that if it had happened just 30 seconds later, the beer bottle wouldn’t have been there because he was about to get up to get it. He was in the mood for a beer (but then he is ALWAYS in the mood for a beer). I asked him if he was more upset over losing the only beer left in the fridge or upset that I was injured. Of course he was concerned about me, but come to think of it, he never answered my question.

I’m no fool. I milked the sympathy I was getting from MSSO for all it was worth. Those bloody paper towels were quite impressive. He cleaned up the entire mess - insisting that I sit in the recliner, and then propped my foot up on two pillows. He then finished dinner and served me. Brought me a popsicle for dessert, too. It was only my due. But was it guilt or love?

Adieu,
Adeline

Adeline! I left you a message here a while ago and just noticed it’s gone. Anyway, I hate that you hurt your foot!! I’m glad your SSO is taking good care of you. Who knew that making a salad could almost kill you!!! That’s just terrible!

I’m glad you are using it to its full advantage. Guilt or love??? Is there much difference?? lol The ankle bow with the gauze is a very nice touch!!