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A few stories that may interest you, from the sad to a wacky scam that only the wacky would fall for:

    Shaini Goodwin lies like a lover, and people pay to listen.

    Her whispers promise the irresistible: peace, wealth and forgiven credit card debt.

    She is a star only the Internet could create – queen of a cybercult, architect of a conspiracy theory built on the ruins of deceit. Every day, typing at a computer or speaking on the phone, she lures disciples to a bewitching creed, and pumps new life into a dead scam that suckered thousands.

    Just sad:

      In the eyes of her stepfather, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was an out-of-control troublemaker. She stole money from her parents and broke her siblings’ toys, she stole milk from a younger sibling and broke their computer printer, he said.

      And when he found that she had gone into the refrigerator and taken a cup of yogurt she wasn’t supposed to have, he flew into a rage.

      Police say Cesar Rodriguez beat the little girl to death, then tossed her on the floor of what was known in the family’s apartment as the “dirty room,” a rodent-infested room where she had been tied up and left with only a litter box as a toilet.

      During a jail interview with newspaper reporters, Rodriguez did not admit fatally beating his stepdaughter but said: “I have a lot of guilt.”

      This is a case where a guilty man did what was right, for once in his life.

        CROWN POINT, Indiana- A man sentenced to life in prison for murdering three teens and burying their bodies in a basement died Friday, a day after he was found hanging from a twisted bed sheet in his jail cell, a hospital spokesman said.

        Jail guards found David Maust, 51, hanging in his cell early Thursday, about 10 minutes after they told him that he was going to transferred to a state prison later that day, sheriff’s Cpl. Mike Higgins said.

        Higgins said Maust used a bed sheet braided into a rope to hang himself.

        He was taken to a hospital, where he died Friday morning, said St. Anthony Hospital spokesman Joe Dejanovic.

        In a note found by the guards, Maust admitted to five killings.

        “Maybe with my death the families and the people can go on with their lives and not waste energy wondering why I was still alive,” he wrote in the seven-page note, released by the county prosecutor’s office.

        Maust pleaded guilty last fall to killing Michael Dennis, 13, James Raganyi, 16, and Nicholas James, 19, whose bodies were found buried in his basement, and was sentenced to three consecutive life terms without the chance for parole in exchange for the state withdrawing all death penalty requests.

        He also served time in an Illinois prison for the 1981 murder of a 15-year-old boy before being released in 1999, and he was convicted of manslaughter while serving in the Army for the killing of a teenager in Germany.

        Notice how he did 18 years for killing a 15 year old boy? And some people wonder why we have the death penalty.

        Do not go to this hospital for a cold:

          ORLANDO, Fla. — A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee.

          The woman filed a complaint against Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, she said, because they won’t tell her exactly what happened. The hospital maintains the woman wants to know information that would violate other patients’ rights.

          Claudia Mejia gave birth eight and a half months ago at Orlando Regional South Seminole. She was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando where her arms and legs were amputated. She was told she had streptococcus, a flesh eating bacteria, and toxic shock syndrome, but no further explanation was given.

          The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them.

          Someone find Oprah!

            Jacques Pluss has accomplished the impossible. He has managed to get himself hated by everyone.

            Nazis, socialists, lefties, righties, academics, nonacademics — if they have any feeling about Pluss, those feelings are negative.

            I may be the only person in America who appreciates what he has done. And what he has done is to single-handedly expose the myth of academic freedom in America.

            Pluss did this with an unprecedented — some would say nutty — piece of guerrilla theater that just came to light the other day. At this time last year, Pluss was a quiet and otherwise unremarkable part- time history teacher at the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus in Teaneck. Then in March, the student newspaper received a mysterious letter postmarked from a small village in Ireland. The letter alleged that Pluss was a member of a neo-Nazi group in America and was also, among other things, an Irish Republican Army member who was being investigated concerning a recent drive-by killing in Belfast.

            The neo-Nazis and the IRA generally don’t move in the same circles, so that should have tipped off the college kids that something about the letter was a bit fishy. But then a bit of investigation turned up the curious fact that Pluss had been holding forth on an Internet radio station hosted by the National Socialist Movement.

            Before long, Pluss was summarily booted from his teaching post and told not to show up on campus again. Fairleigh Dickinson officials said the firing had nothing to do with his politics. The dismissal was, they said, the result of some absences that had, coincidentally enough, come to their attention at the same time they learned of his tendency to march around in a brown shirt wearing black boots.

            […]It now turns out Pluss is not a Nazi; he’s just a post-modernist. The other day, Pluss posted an article on the History News Network Web site (http://hnn.us/) titled “Now It Can Be Told: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi.” The episode, he writes, was inspired by the great French deconstructionists Jacques Derrida and Michele Foucault, who had insisted on “the need for the historian to ‘become’ her or his subject.”

            When I phoned him yesterday, the 52-year-old Pluss said his experience, which he expects to turn into a book, has brought him even more hatred from the academics who had hated him already.

            “I had thought there would at least have been some more academically and intellectually oriented responses,” said Pluss, whose Ph.D. in medieval history is from the highly respected University of Chicago.

            […]I chose the Nazis because they were absolutely the most obnoxious, whacky group I could find.”

            The academics were a close second, however.

            Pluss wanted to test their reactions as well, which is why he mailed off that nutty letter when he was vacationing in Ireland. The FDU officials took the bait. So much for academic freedom. Pluss was not only booted from the campus but shunned by all of his former colleagues.

            “I knew them to be a bunch of jerks,” he told me. “If they wanted to dump me for my political views, why can’t they just come out and say it?”

            Pluss plans to write up the whole experience in the form of a historical novel. That gave me an idea. I had just read “A Million Little Pieces,” that bogus memoir of drug rehab by James Frey that became a million seller. If hanging out with a bunch of bored druggies makes for a best seller, how about hanging out with a wacky bunch of nutty neo-Nazis?

            “I’ve got just one more question,” I said to Pluss before he had to go. “Have you had your people contact Oprah?”