PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney I don't know how many of you caught 20/20's two-hour special about revenge last night, which devoted an entire hour to the new movie Cult Killer , a documentary about Rick Rodriguez , but it was amazing. And it's beyond sad when people pervert the Word of God and turn it into something weird that serves their own demonic doings. That's what a group dubbed both "The Family" and "Children of God" did, led by David Berg. That's David Berg in this photo with his "foster" son, Ricky Rodriguez , a little boy who suffered untold sexual abuse. Ricky Rodriguez is the focal point of the new documentary Cult Killer: The Rick Rodriguez Story . Unfortunately, the abuse Rick Rodriguez suffered -- part of it chronicled in Cult Killer -- drove him to kill and commit suicide and turned him against the real King of kings, Christ. Watch a preview of Cult Killer: The Rick Rodriguez Story here, but be warned, it contains cursing --...

That's what my 85-year-old father asked me in an emailed titled "Go, go, Paula!" Ah...there's the rub, as Shakespeare would say. This is what happens when you break down and give your dad your blog address. I'm 37 , I figured, not 17. I shouldn't be afraid of him knowing me. (Though there are a couple of posts I hope he doesn't find.) Anyhoo, I don't expect some kind of big Dooce deal with this, whose father didn't speak to her for three months after her brother read her blog posts to her computer illiterate parents. Fortunately, my daddy knows his way around a PC, and is probably smarting to read this and see these pics of him as a little boy sitting on his mommy's lap. (Now you see where I get my "high yellowedness" from. Daddy says his mom was part black and Swedish. How I wish she'd looked up into the camera lens for this one, seeing as though this is the only pic I remember seeing of her.) And this is the man I think is hi...

Both TWit and Engadget and Crave are reporting that James Kim , CNET's senior editor of digital audio, and his family have gone missing. They look like a beautiful family...I pray for their safe return home. Here is the official missing persons' report. The San Francisco Police Department is asking the public’s help in locating the Kim family. Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts should contact the following numbers: SFPD Missing Persons Unit: 415-558-5508 Operations Center: 415-553-1071 Tags: james , kim , family , missing , persons , report , kati , penelope , sabine , saab , cnet , editor