PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney By now nearly everybody has heard the plight of Genarlow Wilson , a 17-year-old honor student who should've been acing his SATs the day he was arrested on charges of rape, stemming from consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as well as intercourse with another girl. And now David McDade has released the videotape of Genarlow Wilson receiving oral sex at a party, claiming he was required to by law. The unfairness of Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence even has Barack Obama championing his cause. Heck, I just might vote for that man yet... I believe rape is wrong. I believe child molestation is wrong. I believe this is not why Genarlow Wilson is in prison. Laws like this were designed to protect children from older scuzballs taking advantage of them, not to send a good kid to prison for what's been reported as consensual oral sex with a girl two years his junior. There's such a thing as the letter of the law, and then there's the spirit of t...

by Paula Neal Mooney Good lookin' out (or whatever 23-year-olds say) to Cheynne , the Nerd With Swag , for hipping me to Brandon Fletcher and his YouTube videos . Brandon Fletcher is a 20-year-old kid -- forgive the "kid" moniker, but seriously, at 38, I coulda had a son your age -- who chronicled his journey to the California office of YouTube in a clever series of videos posted on the just-as-cleverly titled site Can YouTube Hear Me ? With amazing chutzpah and spirit, Brandon went to Cali armed with episodes of his internet dating reality series called " Date: Unknown ," a very well-edited and scored show. Though the YouTube security guard wouldn't let him off the elevator, Brandon did get to meet with a couple of YouTube employees. And now Brandon Fletcher is one of the few to have inked a revenue-sharing deal with YouTube . I don't know how much he makes, but watching Brandon's YouTube video journey and his never-say-quit spirit, I can tell he...