I used to be the only one who did this. Now I’m not, and now, there are many, many people who do it better.
I’m not in competition with anyone, but I have to consider, seriously, whether I can do it well at all.
For me, it was never a race to see who could get the most shocking news about right-wingers up first — it was about dig-down-deep research, and presenting the most comprehensive, easily-digestible view out there, by which I mean: major snark softening the most horrible stories so that you could read them without throwing up, in order to make a point, that point being: the people who want to control and restrict your very life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, are the biggest hypocrites of all.
But in the eight years I’ve been doing this (and it has been eight years — where has the time gone?), a lot of other people have taken up the mantle and have been doing the same thing.
I want to say that I don’t harbor any resentment (although, truth be told, I think I do)… that, as I have been telling myself for the better part of a decade: it’s not who gets the credit — it’s that these stories get out there, in order to make the public aware, because we’re all on the same side… right?
Samuel Curtis Johnson III, a.k.a. Curt Johnson, is the great-great grandson of Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr., founder of cleaning-products (Pledge, Windex, Ziploc, etc.) empire SC Johnson & Son, and himself chairman of SC Johnson spinoff Diversey, Inc. — at least until February, 2011, when he took a leave of absence “for personal reasons,” then “retired” altogether (at age 55) in March. He’s also a billionaire, making the #182 spot on the 2010 Forbes 400 list of richest people in the world, with a net worth of $2 billion. 
Bail denied: Stephen Douglas Berry, 38, former associate pastor, New Life Baptist Church, Union County, South Carolina, who has been charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct — specifically, sexual intercourse — with a 15-year-old girl between May and November, 2010. Per WSPA: “According to the church and the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Berry was the subject of a prior criminal investigation involving sexual misconduct allegations from an adult female. Sheriff David Taylor said the woman decided not to pursue charges, so the investigation was closed.” Nevertheless, a 
Not guilty plea: Sean Feltman, 24, former youth pastor, Willamette Community Church, Albany, Oregon, to the charge of attempting to “lure” a 14-year-old girl who belonged to the church youth group led by Feltman. Per KPTV, “Police say they began to investigate Feltman on Jan. 9, when the parents of a 14-year-old girl who attends the church youth group reported their daughter received sexually explicit text messages and online messages from the man. The church says Feltman resigned one week later. Officers arrested Feltman [March 4, 2011].” Story: 
We thought the case of Dwight Bullock, former youth pastor at Moore Chapel CME (Christian Methodist Episcopal), Jasper, Texas, was all wrapped up when he was 
Charged: Anthony Dale Newton, a.k.a. Tony Newton, 51, former pastor, H2O Church, Lexington, Tennessee, with aggravated statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure after reportedly having a 16-year-old girl give him oral sex during a New Year’s Eve church “lock-in” (an overnight — or longer — slumber party that literally involves “locking in” youth at the church for the duration of the festivities). Police say Newton (who is free on bond pending his next hearing) has admitted to the crime. 
Confessed: Robert L. Stoner, 38, youth minister, Miracle Temple Holy Church, Wilmington, Delaware, to having sex with a 15-year-old female member of his church, “several times in his home ‘in the living room on the couch while his son was asleep,’” according to police. Stoner faces six counts of third-degree rape. Story: 
Charged: Edward Fairley, 59, pastor, Koinonia and Christian Ministries, Paterson, New Jersey, with the attempted murder of associate pastor Simone Shields, 52, with whom, police say, the married Fairley was “in a relationship.” NewJersey.com reports that “authorities and a witness say, the Rev. Edward Fairley stormed into an Eastside home and, without a word, stabbed the Rev. Simone Shields several times in the face and torso, leaving her to lie in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.” Police found a strangely calm Fairley “staggering through the streets soaked in blood and carrying a knife.” In 1983, Fairley broke into his estranged wife’s home and stabbed her, for which he served six years in prison. Story: 
Sentenced: Lucy Adeniji Williams, 44, Nigerian-born pastor of “TLCCMINISTRIES (Where the Lord Cares),” London, U.K., to 11-1/2 years in prison after her conviction on 17 charges related to smuggling two African children and one 21-year-old woman into the U.K. to use them as domestic slaves in her East London home. “An illegal immigrant herself,” reports the BBC, Adeniji “had told the victims’ parents they would have a better life in the UK, but instead viciously beat them if they failed to please her.” 
Out on bond: Brent Girouex, 31, former elder & youth pastor, Victory Fellowship Church (
Charged: Marc L. Neal, 48, senior pastor, Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, Akron, Ohio; Dominion Family Worship Center, Atlanta, Georgia; presiding prelate, Come Alive Ministry International Fellowship; with felony assault, kidnapping and abduction after a repo man tried to repossess his Lexus. Neal reportedly hit the gas and peeled out with Ken Falzini clinging to the hood of the car, hitting speeds up of to 60mph as he raced through the streets, zig-zagging widly as he tried to throw the repo man to the ground — and reportedly laughing when he threatened to take Falzini out on the interstate. In Neal’s defense, his attorney said it was “disrespectful” to try to repossess Neal’s car at the church on a Sunday morning. (Falzini said he had no other address for Neal.) Neal has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Story: