You can argue how our society is messed up for not allowing sexual relations with teenagers and youths all you want, but until the majority of people in this country agree with you it's going to remain against the law. That's where the line is drawn and if you cross over that line you need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The point of this article is that there is very little being done to investigate these crimes.

It's a bit disturbing how fervently some people on here argue about how kids under 18 should be able to have sexual relations with those 18 and over. It's pretty sad actually because we aren't talking about high schoolers with one year between them. We're talking about 30 and 40 year old men soliciting the services of under 18 children. I'm surprised that someone has tried to portray the viewers of underage pornography as the victims in this process. That's ludicrous. They made their choice to break the law and they have to live with it. Why should Berry should cover up their crimes? So that they can go on to the next underage porn site and create new demand there? These people have to realize that they are doing something illegal and stop doing it and the only way that is going to happen is if there are consequences for that illegality.

Cry to the heavens about how the morals of America are backward and the Sambia of New Guinea allow oral sex with underage boys so we should too, but don't expect people to actually take you seriously.

What steroids and growth hormone and other performance enhancing drugs gave to Bonds is time. Barry received time in that there is no 40 year old who can perform at the level of a 20 year old with a comparable amount of skill. Barry has a lot of skill, but in the end the body starts to break down as you age and you aren't able to recover from training and exertion as quickly. That is mostly what Bonds got from steroids. In addition he was able to pack on muscle even quicker than a 20 year old would be able to which gave him more power.

None of that equates to skill in baseball. There are plenty of strong guys in baseball, but not a lot of them can hit the long ball consistently.

That said, using steroids is prohibited by the MLB and Bonds could have been banned had he tested positive for them. Kaufman's reply quoting the specific prohibition of the use of illegal drugs by baseball players is very interesting.

The question that I find myself asking after reading that is, if steroids were legal would it still have been cheating? If Andro was all that McGwire used is he still a cheater? It wasn't illegal at the time (I'm not even sure it is now, didn't it need to be specifically prohibitied by the MLB).

Kevin, you ask, "Do you honestly think that 13 yos can't distinguish right and wrong?"

Yes they definitely cannot if they haven't been guided properly. And every piece on this subject indicates that the parents were completely negligent during the time that this occurred. It doesn't seem unlikely that Justin received no proper guidance on the subject of right and wrong. Morality isn't something that is received at birth, it's instilled in the mentality of the individual by the people that raise him or her.

I don't think you're out of bounds calling the kid a whore because that is what the adults guiding him made him into, but I don't think your reasoning on why he was a whore is particularly sound. Putting all the responsibility on his shoulders is incorrect and whether you see it or not is in some way excusing what the adults in this equation did to the kid.

"But Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich suggests that the retired generals are now simply looking for someone to blame for a war gone badly."

This is bullcrap. The military has been saying that Rumsfeld is incompetent from the very beginning of this fiasco. Rumsfeld's handling of the war and the deployment of personnel and his treatment of the military in general has been terrible all around. If anything the military is making it public at this point because they see that nothing is changing. They've been waiting for Bush/Cheney to dump Rumsfeld, but now that they see it isn't happening and we are in deep in Iraq they are making public waves to get Rumsfeld out.