Oh. My. God.

Taken from a (non-adoring) article about Michael Jackson's death:

"Hang on a minute. I'm not the kind of person to start Paedogeddon-style witch-hunts gratuitously, but ..."

PAEDOGEDDON!

Chris Hanson has to use this, I'm serious.

Chris: Tonight, on Dateline: Operation Paedogeddon. (strategically placed zoom and pan...)

On that note, what crime are these pervs supposed to have committed? The police do, after all, show up after Chris Hanson has worked them over. I mean, you can't lock someone up for WANTING to have sex with children, right? The people they talk with online are adults and everything... Imagine if you were arrested for saying "You know, I'd like to try pot sometime" to a police officer. Then again, I don't suppose it's the same thing. They're actively trying to commit a crime, the same way you can get arrested for soliciting an undercover cop, thinking she's a prostitute, and that seems to be pretty common practice. Then again AGAIN, I think that whole solicitation of prostitution thing is complete BS, ridiculous puritanical laws regarding prostitution notwithstanding.

And yes, I DO think that prostitution should be legal! Just like marijuana, all the arguments against it would essentially be solved by legalization (and regulation and taxation). Given a legal option, would any sane person frequent a brothel which might involve human trafficking, coercion, venereal disease or any number of other nasty things? I think not.

But yeah. paedogeddon. I imagine all these creepy dudes running from a mushroom cloud. "It's the end of days!"