After the television show, Inside Edition, telephoned me for comment about the David G. Ludwig and Kara Beth Borden story, I decided to delve into it a bit deeper. Apparently Ludwig might be the suspect who allegedly killed Kara Beth Borden’s parents, Michael F. and Cathryn Lee Borden, early Sunday after they and their daughter argued about her curfew. The shootings took place at the family’s home in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
So here’s the CNN story on the latest.
Far more interesting to me, however, are the kids’ blogs:
Ludwig’s:
http://www.xanga.com/Haydren
http://www.myspace.com/haydren
Ludwig Photos
Borden’s:
http://www.xanga.com/karebear000
http://www.myspace.com/meantxtoxlive
Wow, you never would’ve thought these normal-looking folks (normal for online, anyway) would be involved in something like this in the middle of Pennsylvania Amish country. What a world!
So Inside Edition was calling because these teens happened to keep blogs, so there’s this “blog angle” to the story. I’m not sure I “get it,” but I do get that nowadays, most teens probably have a blog or website they visit and write on regularly. It’s funny how the media will focus on one small aspect of a person’s life and turn that in a sub-plot of some sort. I imagined if they had hung out at McDonald’s everyday and ate their french fries, they would’ve found a way to implicate McDonald’s as well.
Why do people do things that seem to make no sense? (That’s a self-answering question.) Why do teens use blogs to communicate with one another and to express their feelings? Because it’s as normal and natural as picking up the phone is to the rest of us. It is what the next generation uses as a simple outlet for their needs.
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Ron Franscell at 3:47 pm on
November 14th, 2005
The Borden incident had eerie similarities to the Charlie Starkweather/Caril Fugate case in 1958. Their murderous rampage ened only after nearly a dozen people died, and the question of Fugate’s “abduction” has never been settled definitively. Fortunately, this whole new chapter has ended without more bloodshed, and we’ll see justice unfold as more questions are answered.
friend at 12:18 pm on
November 22nd, 2005
why does kara want married david for after her killed her mom and dad for
Justice is a word just like love; it has no easily defined meaning. But what isn’t justice is what the jury says. They don’t know right and wrong. You might as well call in a panel of political science professors (such excellent alliteration there)to analyze The Wasteland.
Right and wrong is what makes sense, and no one can make sense of everything. Why should Ludwig be deprived of 60-odd future years of life while only taking away some 30 years combined? Dead people aren’t coming back, and neither do I think they care all that much. But the person left alive cares and feels it very much. Call me insane, but you’re the lunatics to me.
[…]I noticed that the other day. I don’t know what happened to them. I’d recommend going with CamStudio, which is essentially the same program.[…]
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The Borden incident had eerie similarities to the Charlie Starkweather/Caril Fugate case in 1958. Their murderous rampage ened only after nearly a dozen people died, and the question of Fugate’s “abduction” has never been settled definitively. Fortunately, this whole new chapter has ended without more bloodshed, and we’ll see justice unfold as more questions are answered.
why does kara want married david for after her killed her mom and dad for
Justice is a word just like love; it has no easily defined meaning. But what isn’t justice is what the jury says. They don’t know right and wrong. You might as well call in a panel of political science professors (such excellent alliteration there)to analyze The Wasteland.
Right and wrong is what makes sense, and no one can make sense of everything. Why should Ludwig be deprived of 60-odd future years of life while only taking away some 30 years combined? Dead people aren’t coming back, and neither do I think they care all that much. But the person left alive cares and feels it very much. Call me insane, but you’re the lunatics to me.
[…]I noticed that the other day. I don’t know what happened to them. I’d recommend going with CamStudio, which is essentially the same program.[…]
