I’m coming out of my normal hiding place to make a few comments. The internet is a strange place. It is often a wonderful place, a helpful place, a unifying place. But it is also alienating, cold, and is the perfect medium in which to depersonalize others. Through it, I have seen people reach out…

Mildly amusing:Glenn Beck also mocked the media coverage.To make it even more of a circus the sheriff says that he was playing the media so that he could gain the trust of the media manipulators: The sheriff, who on Friday had largely dismissed suggestions from reporters that the balloon flight might be a hoax, said…

No surprise that charges are being filed in the balloon boy incident: “We were looking at Class 3 misdemeanor, which hardly seems serious enough given the circumstances,” Alderden said. “We are talking to the district attorney, federal officials to see if perhaps there aren’t additional federal charges that are appropriate in this circumstance.” Evidently, this…

I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m so glad this story didn’t take up my evening like it did for those on Twitter and watching Fox News: The parents of the 6-year-old Colorado boy who was at one time believed to have been soaring across Colorado in a “homemade flying saucer” continue to face questions about whether…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners