vampire daddy

A friend took this shot of me biting my daughter's hand at a picnic. You see, at home, we don't like to use the paddle when kids behave badly; that's so 1950's. Here, she swiped the cap right off my head and refused to let it go. So I bit her.

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Lest you begin accusing me of being too harsh, let me say something in my defense. Do you know how many times she swiped my cap after that? A bunch of times, actually. She is just a twisted little nut and that's all there is to it. But that's not my point.

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(My original point was supposed to be that my friend can go to picasa.google.com and use that to edit and store photos.)

Anonymous

Does anyone else think “Anonymous” is misused and overdone?

Years ago, as I ran a meeting, I presented a letter to those assembled, but did not read it aloud. I simply announced that someone sent this letter, (holding it high in my left hand for all to see) but since the author did not put his or her name to it, I crumpled it up (as if I had not read it), then I just tossed it in the garbage.

I wanted to make a statement. My message was that in that group, no member would be permitted to commit a hit and run. I did in fact read the letter before bringing it to the meeting, and it was a hurtful criticism of one of the hardest working contributors of our group. I felt that its author was gutless and the cheap shot deserved a public challenge. Now, I didn’t preach on the evils of such slithery slander, instead, I acted uninterested as I tossed it aside and moved on to the next order of business. No one ever owned up to it, but we never got an anonymous letter again.

But do all anonymous letters fall in the same category? Probably not. Just last week, I came across a letter from someone who used anonymity to take a first step in confessing a sin they were struggling with. They used their letter to test the waters, to see how the church would react to their confession of sin. I can’t blame this person for the way they went about it. I mean, would you go in for surgery if you were not confident that they would anesthetize you to reduce unnecessary pain?

Does there seem to be an upsurge of anonymous comments in the blogosphere right now? …Especially as it relates to the public humiliation of a Christian leader? I found other anonymous comments from opposite sides of political agendas. What kind of guidelines should we use as pertains to anonymous writings? Certainly not all anonymity is to be despised, right? What shall we do about all those people talking through a paper-bag mask?