John Ratcliff's Weblog

I was checking my track-back links and found the most amazing search phrase used to get to my website. Apparently, I am the number one link on the Internet for the phrase " My Boss is trying to conduct our company like a Freemason Lodge " Sometimes it just amazes me at the things people will type into an Internet search engine. As long as I'm doing a track-back post, here are some other recent phrases that drew traffic to this site. "how to become a freemason" (number one hit on Google) "Can a Freemason join the Catholic Church?" (number 3 hit on Google) "Craig Ferguson is a Freemason " (number one hit on AOL search; and, for the record, I have no idea whether Craig Ferguson is or is not a Freemason. The link comes here simply because *I* am a Freemason and a Craig Ferguson fan.) "scientific proof that we are going through a fourth dimension " (number 11 hit on Google) "getting naked in the shriners initiation process" ...

Here is an interesting news story that links in very well with the blog post I made yesterday. The article begins as follows: When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out. But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘pervert’. The woman running the slide at Wolverhampton Show asked him what he was doing and other families waiting in the queue demanded that he stop.

I just received an odd, if not even slightly disturbing, comment to one of my blog posts. The anonymous comment accused me of being 'perverted' by uploading photographs on my blog. He was especially concerned about a recent post I made which included photographs from a pool party at my home. I find this quite odd. Is it inappropriate to upload family photographs to your personal weblog? Maybe it is. Even though the photographs are for my family and friends, nevertheless just anyone in the world can see them too. I am a little bugged that completely innocent photographs of young people having fun were viewed as inappropriate by this stranger. There was nothing salacious about these images. Other images I have uploaded recently included a number of teenage girls. You see, the thing is, my daughter is an attractive teenage girl; and so are her friends. And if I choose to upload photographs from her high school prom, or graduation party, or friends boating or playing aroun...

My Google alert, which is set to notify me whenever my arch nemesis Dr. Steven Greer shows up in the blogosphere, fired off this amusing link today. It is highly entertaining to watch a fevered mind fueled by paranoid delusions spew sprays of sputtering nonsense into the ether of the internets. I hope you find the post as entertaining as I did.