Alberto Gonzales should be proud - little torturers in training.

Psychologists say, I recall, that children frequently repeat the abuse visited on them on their own children. Keeping that in mind, look what I came across today: some of our right-wing-fundamentalist-reality-challenged-biblebanging brothers and sisters in Oklahoma are marketing something called “The Rod,” as in spare the rod and spoil the child.

This piece of crap is essentially a whip for your kid. The purveyors of this abomination - and it really is an abomination, unlike gays and shrimp - advertise that it has a “cushioned vinyl grip” and is “durable for years of use.” Isn’t that special?

I personally had to lower my trousers and be beaten on my bare butt with a belt when I was little. Presumably that scarred me psychologically for life. Perhaps, but I don’t have another life to compare, so I’m not sure. I know that I didn’t want to have children, because I didn’t want to risk treating them as I was treated - in a number of ways…

You can read more about “The Rod” here. It's worth a visit so you can see a picture of this thing. Any "Godly" parent who would use this on their child deserves to be in jail.