For overqualified women who have to remain calm, friendly, knowledgeable and professional in front of underqualified men ... Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

Cybercriminal Article in Sunday Print Edition

The article covering the right wing cybercriminal who toasted my Facebook account was in the print edition of the newspaper a couple days ago. I'm posting it here, because the online article is behind paywall, and I want my friends to be able to read the article.

A Right Wing Cybercriminal Got Me!

Sooo… on the 7th my Facebook account mysteriously became deactivated. Turns out it's organized crime. I found out it was a larger pattern than just my account because a friend saw that my account had evaporated, and texted me asking questions because he had another friend who was a victim of the same criminal. The criminal who has figured out how to zap Facebook accounts is Kelly Walker, the same guy who is now charged with criminal trespassing for causing a scene at an elementary school earlier this week: an elementary school his kids don't even attend! He's just a troublemaker..

Those of us who have had our accounts taken down by him don't actually think he's intelligent enough to do so without help. We know of at least one guy who is helping him with the account deletions. They have bragged about deleting "libs" Facebook accounts in online forums.

We know there are many others out there who have had their profiles deleted but there's not a way to reach them.

I filed FBI report earlier this week, others are going to as well.

As the most recent identified victim, I was interviewed for this piece in the Arizona Daily Star yesterday.

Marcus Borg and Meeting Jesus

I'm re-reading "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" by Marcus Borg, because Pastor Janet sent me a replacement for the signed copy Dad gave me, which I had lost.

I'm only just starting. He recalls childhood images of Jesus, and God, and how his early understandings began to melt away into doubt as critical thinking bootstrapped in his teens. His recollection is very similar to my own, which makes me wonder…

Do some people get stuck in the childhood understanding of Jesus and God, such that it leads to the kind of empirically false literal understanding of God as punisher, the intolerance and bigotry, and the denial of fundamentalism and conservatism in Christianity?

Penny Dreadful

Carl and I have watched the full first season of Penny Dreadful, and we are hooked! I like how doubtful and introspective all the "good" characters are. Literally every character in the series has sinister stuff going on in their introspective and extroverted activity… but the "good" characters are rather tormented souls. They experience doubt. It's quite brilliant, really.