When I market my services, I often quote this line: “For every imaginable topic, hobby, or profession, there are blogs.”

But the statement is incomplete. The line should read: “For every imaginable topic, hobby, profession, or peversion, there are blogs.

Blogs can be used for hobbies or business, or to share your faith or opinions on hot issues of the day. Blogs can also be used for perverted reasons. Joseph Duncan, the child molester and murderer who killed 8-year-old Shasta Groene’s mother and brothers and abducted her, blogs about his “demons.” By the grace of God, Shasta still lives, but Duncan is still at large:

Despite law enforcement’s hopes, the 42-year-old computer programmer’s sporadic postings did not give away his location. Instead, the last entries took a disturbed and ominous tone. In a May 11 posting titled “The Demons Have Taken Over,” Duncan hinted of violence in his past and future. “I am scared, alone and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society,” Duncan wrote. “My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die.” (Source)

If he’s not caught soon, he’ll probably strike again, killing and hurting innocent children. I hope he resumes blogging, and I pray his blog will lead the police directly to his hideout.

Update: I was way off about Duncan. He was captured last Saturday! Excellent. The article I cited said as much, but I missed it. A commenter corrected my error, an example of the immediacy of blogs.