Human Interest

A  US judge who ordered a deputy to remotely shock a defendant with a 50,000-volt charge, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor civil rights violation in federal court Monday. A man representing himself in a Maryland court in 2014 was shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity because he continued to speak when the judge ordered to him stop. Maryland Judge Robert Nalley pleaded guilty on Monday to depriving the defendant of his civil right and faces a maximum of one year in prison when sentenced later this year.

“Mom, I think we have Peak Dad,” said my son Matthew, spying the scene above, where I had been working. Too true. I’m very deep down the Benedict Option book research rabbit hole.

Some South Koreans consider dogs as food items and include them in their diets. While others rescue them from cruelty and ignorance and form a bond with them. NBC News reports: For 26 years, Jung Myoung Sook has saved hundreds of dogs from being cooked in South Korea, where they are considered a delicacy. Dogs are kept in crowded cages and are then sometimes strung up and given a good beating by their humans to tenderize their meat before slaughter, while the pooches innocently look death and their supposed masters in the face till the last moment.

Donald John Trump, the president and chairman of The Trump Organization and a Republican presidential candidate, has been nominated for the prestigious 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. It is not clear who might have submitted the nomination for the billionaire businessman but do they really have faith in Trumps efforts towards strengthening and promoting world peace…it must be a joke, right?

.@roddreher The sexual revisionists are starting earlier than this! In the lib in my conservative, rural locale: https://t.co/iJXOmEFibT

— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) February 2, 2016

The Kirkus review of this book:

Austrian and Curato turn the simple wedding of two worms into a three-ring circus that slyly turns the whole controversy over same-sex versus heterosexual marriage on its head.