Saint Clarence

So yeah, I have a new favorite blog (Other than my girlfriend's ZoeSays blog). It's Roger Ebert's. It's fantastic, and the user commentary is stellar. Always entertaining, usually informative, and never stupid, it's become an automatic read. I have very few. Here are some of my automatic checks:

RogerEbert.com - It's got a very active comments section (most posts go over 500 comments), and Ebert is active in responding. He even checks out commenters' blogs. It is moderated, which means there is no concern for trolling, etc.

ZoeSays.com - It's the girlfriend's. Visit. It's funny and interesting, with some unique perspectives.

CNN.com - Always a good idea to keep up on news. Stay away from the entertainment section, and stick to the REAL news that affects everyone, please.

Cracked.com - HILARIOUS. Interesting takes on history and science, so it's funny without just resorting to toilet humor and penis jokes (though there are a few lowbrow moments as well).

Chambana.Craigslist.org - Well, it's Craigslist. Damn you, Craig. You take so much time out of my life looking at random bedroom furniture. And now I'm moving to New York, so I'll have even more posts through which to wade.

Top-Law-Schools.com - Going to law school next fall, so this makes sense. It's got a good forum section, making fun of Cooley Law School and their self-invented ranking of 12th, among other things.

Facebook.com - Yeah, it's pretty equal shades of awesome and annoying. On the bright side, you can look up people you knew way back in the day. On the down side, they can look you up, too. Also, you run the risk of your girlfriend reminding you to update your status multiple times per day.

Twitter.com - I'm on there. Look me up as SaintClarence27. Regardless, it can be fun as long as you download tweetdeck or another reader. You can also follow cnn, nytimes, the newyorker, etc. Or you could follow 70+ different people/companies, as I do.

OkCupid.com - Yeah, it's a dating site. But it's free. It's how I met my girlfriend, so I am forever in their debt. Also, they have good quizzes and a forum section.

In any case, I'm ready to move to New York City!

Here's my congressional representative, Tim Johnson's, response to Obama's health care speech:

From:
http://news-gazette.com/news/local/2009/09/10/response_to_obama_from_us_rep_tim_johnson/

I appreciate the President taking this opportunity to address the
Congress and the people of the United States regarding his vision for
healthcare reform. Unfortunately it is much of the same; lofty words
with few specifics.

The American people have made it clear that they are not comfortable
with the path of this debate, do not support the current proposals in
the House and Senate, and want us to slow down and get this right. The
time for rhetoric has long passed; the time for the President to lead
has arrived. He campaigned on the promise to change the way Washington
works and what better opportunity than this healthcare debate.

This morning Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leaders Reid were
invited down to the White House for a meeting on the healthcare debate.
Where were the Republican leaders? There are many areas in the
healthcare arena that we agree should be addressed. We should allow
small businesses to band together to buy their insurance through
association health plans. When someone loses their job they should not
lose their health insurance. No one should be denied healthcare
coverage because they have pre-existing conditions or become sick. And
citizens should be allowed to shop for insurance across state lines, to
name just a few.

However, the President and Democrats in the House and Senate seem
intent on establishing a government-run health plan that has been shown
in numerous other countries does not contain costs without rationing
care to seniors and other vulnerable people and diminishes the health
outcome of its citizens. And to top it all off they plan to tax small
businesses who can't afford to supply insurance to their employees, tax
individuals who do not obtain insurance, and place caps on the amount
people can donate to organizations whose goal is to help the same people
who do not currently have health insurance."

Mr. President, the American people are hurting. Unemployment is at its
highest rate in decades, the federal deficit is expected to rise $9
trillion dollars over the next decade, the national debt continues to
explode, and the national housing market has collapsed. Now is not the
time to rush through an over $1 trillion piece of legislation that has
been shown will not contain the long term costs of healthcare, will
further expand the ballooning deficit, and will place more control of
healthcare in the hands of government. We all agree we cannot sit idly
by and do nothing, so now is the time for you to follow through on past
promises and sit down with both sides of Congress and craft a bill that
will actually reform healthcare, contain costs, and keep the government
out of our medical decisions.


And here is my response to my congressional representative (also
commented on the page of the original article):

"The American people have made it clear that they are not comfortable
with the path of this debate"

You're right, Rep. Johnson, I'm not. I'm not comfortable with the
hyperbole, obfuscation, and lack of empathy coming from your Republican
colleagues in what should be a real national health care debate. Perhaps
the efforts of Republicans who have resorted to fear-mongering, cheap
political attacks, and the crashing of town hall meetings in an effort to
crush any reasonable debate might hold some of the rationale for the
White House being resistant to inviting Republicans to their strategy
meetings?

As for your assertion that "a government-run health plan that has been
shown in numerous other countries does not contain costs without
rationing care to seniors and other vulnerable people and diminishes the
health outcome of its citizens," well, that's mistaken at best and
nefarious at worst. As an elected representative, Rep. Johnson, you
should know better. As for the containment of costs, could you explain
how the United States ranks FIRST on health care expenditure per capita?
One would think that with all of the socialist health care systems that
can't contain costs, we would be far behind. Perhaps you are suggesting
that all of these countries ration care? If so, I suggest you research
the health care systems in Canada, Sweden, France, and many others before
you make such a statement. Could you give a real example of denial of
services that is even CLOSE to as endemic of the American system where 47
million people lack health care coverage? As for diminishing health, are
you suggesting that those countries with government run health care who
rank ABOVE US in life expectancy (there are 35 of them, many of them with
government run health care that's been demonized by conservative groups)
would be even better if they moved to a private system?

Perhaps you should recognize that the GOP has only served to try and
impede any real reform of health care to the detriment of the millions of
Americans who go without. Take, for instance, this nugget from Rep.
Blount, who was tapped to head up a GOP health care task force in February:

Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus?

We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start

diverting attention from this really bad piece of work [the Democrats have]

got to whatever we’re offering right now?

Perhaps, Rep. Johnson, you should try to better represent your constituents
rather than your republican colleagues and business interests. Until that
point, you will never receive my vote.

Wow, so it's been a long time since I posted here. I'm a big fan of posting in list format, so here goes:

1) I broke my foot. That was hilarious! Only I could break my foot walking around my apartment with my foot asleep. It's all healed now, actually.

2) I really messed up my left (nonwriting) hand. I fell on a wheelchair lift in the rain, and ran a piece of metal in between my thumb and forefinger. It severed one of the two nerve bundles in my thumb, so now I have no movement. Really, about the only thing I've found that I can no longer do is play guitar. Everything else can be adapted. Well, and I haven't been able to play golf for a few weeks because of the pain, but I'll strap my hand to a club if I have to. Seven stitches - and I recorded it all on my cell phone's video camera, too!

3) Did I mention that I'm a bit of a klutz?

4) Work is going well - much less drama. We fired someone that needed to be fired, let's just leave it at that. A lot of the staff were concerned that she had manipulated me with some problems she was having, but I don't feel the need to change. If someone needs help, I'm going to help them. In any case, it didn't screw me too much - I still have a job, and she doesn't.

5) I've been working a TON. We've had 6 client hospitalizations now, so that just adds to it. It seems to be easing off a bit, so I'll be looking to take time off pretty soon.

6) I think I'm ready to look for a non-drama relationship now. Well, that's what I SAY, anyway. Generally, I'm like, "Ooh, drama! Where? That's hot!"

7) Since I can no longer play guitar (and might give away my guitars), I'm heartened by the fact that I can play guitar hero, which is awesome, by the way. My best friend got a Wii.

8) Oh yeah, he's getting hitched in a couple of weeks. I'm the best man. Any speech ideas? I think I'm going to try to make it as funny as possible.

9) I've really gotten into cooking. It's fun.

10) I've lost a LOT of weight, but I have no idea why. People ask what I'm doing to lose weight, and I generally tell them something tremendously inappropriate - "Must be the crystal meth! Wow, I was going to quit, but now..."

11) I got an iPod. I can't believe that I've lasted this long without one.

12) I got two tattoos! I can't believe that I've lasted this long without one. More of them to come, I'm sure.

So, that's all for now. I hope to update a little more frequently in the future.

So...I was given a few questions to answer. Here you go:


1. What is the most important quality you look for in a girlfriend?

Laugh, definitely. I have to have someone that has a good laugh.

2. If you had unlimited resources, where would you live?

Champaign. In a nice house. There's this one on the corner of Church and Prospect...


3. If you could trade places with anyone in any era would you? Who would it be?

I'd trade places with myself about 7 years ago.


4. What are two things you like to do in your spare time?

Golf and play guitar. Really, at this point it's like golf and more golf.


5. Are you voting in the primaries next month?

Um, YES! For Obama, of course!

I am crappy & uncreative when thinking of questions to ask...but if you want, just comment that you'd like some questions and I'll hook you up. ;)

From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.

You can go to Will Barratt's web site to find the original and others.

Bold the items that were true for you


1) Your father went to college before you started

2) Your father finished college before you started

3) Your mother went to college before you started

4) Your mother finished college before you started

5) You have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.

6) Your family was the same or higher class than your high school teachers

7) You had a computer at home when you were growing up

8) You had your own computer at home when you were growing up

9) You had more than 50 books at home when you were growing up

10) You had more than 500 books at home when you were growing up

11) You were read children's books by a parent when you were growing up

12) You ever had lessons of any kind as a child or a teen

13) You had more than two kinds of lessons as a child or a teen

14) The people in the media who dressed and talked like you were portrayed positively

15) You had a credit card with your name on it before college

16) You had or will have less than $5000 in student loans when you graduate

17) You had or will have no student loans when you graduate

18) You went to a private high school

19) You went to summer camp

20) You had a private tutor

21a) (US students only) You have been to Europe more than once as a child or teen

21b) (International question) You have been to the US more than once as a child or teen

22) Your family vacations involved staying at hotels rather than KOA or at relatives homes

23) All of your clothing has been new

24) Your parents gave you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them

25) There was original art in your house as a child or teen

26) You had a phone in your room

27) Your parent owned their own house or apartment when you were a child or teen

28) You had your own room as a child or teen

29) You participated in an SAT/ACT prep course

30) You had your own cell phone in High School

31) You had your own TV as a child or teen

32) You opened a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College

33) You have ever flown anywhere on a commercial airline

34) You ever went on a cruise with your family

35) Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as a child or teen

36) You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family

That's 33% folks!

Some of you might know what I do for a living, and some may not. In any case, I run two group homes for developmentally disabled adults. They're just like regular houses, in regular neighborhoods - that's really the point. Have them understand the community, have the community understand that they're really not different.

So we have some problems with neighbors - on in particular - at one of my houses. He's a bigot, hates our clients, etc. It's an ongoing thing. Last winter, when my car got stuck in a snowdrift in the road in front of our house, he took pictures of my car and called the police to complain. He has called the police when people park on the street in front of his house (it's totally legal) - residential area, parking allowed!

At one point, he told me that our clients shouldn't be there because he didn't like 'mongoloids' like them. I told him "Well, I don't like bigots, but you're still here, aren't you?"

So I told staff not to worry and go ahead and park in front of his yard if they wanted, and they have been, because they're awesome like that. Anyway, he gets this little tiny road cone, like a construction cone (you have to remember that the cone is tiny - it's like 6 inches tall), and starts putting it in the road in front of his house. Our staff just ignore it and either run it over or park there anyway. And I guess one of the staff put it on his mailbox.

So today, he puts it ON a staff member's car. I was going to talk to him, but my boss told me not to do it without a witness. She's probably right, so I just set the cone on his doorstep and hope he trips over it.

And then I get a better idea.

I told the staff that if he puts it back, I had a "Note" they should attach to the cone and put it on his doorstep again.

For your enjoyment, here's the note, word for word:

Dear Sir,

I think this is yours. If you want, I can bring a bigger cone in for you to use. We will still ignore it, but it might be more satisfying to you personally. Thanks!

Sincerely, the Hillside CILA staff

P.S. Let us know about the big cone! (and I drew a smiley face on it)

I hope he's really angry, the bigot. He hasn't put the cone back, so we haven't yet got the chance to use the note, but I'm hoping we will - and I'll be sure to update you on the situation!

So here's how boring my life is:

I just spent 20 minutes friending every last one of the 'Kevin Schneider's on facebook. I just thought it would be funny to have 70 friends with the same name as me.

Lame-o.

I realize that I haven't posted in quite a while, so here are the goings-on.

1) Haven't been sleeping well. Nightmares every night (including a weird one involving immortal butterflies that has now given me a new crazy phobia).

2) Went to Chi-town for the fantasy draft. Yes, I am a nerd. Apparently the people I went to college with are now RICH. Holy crap. People were asking about contributing to the pizza fund, while the homeowner was telling us not to worry about it. I immediately chimed in with "I've seen your house. I'm NOT going to worry about it!"

3) I don't think I'm going to hold...to our bet, because that would just be mean. I haven't ruled it out, though...

4) Vacation is EXPENSIVE.

5) I think I should be the subject of Vh1's new reality series, "Kevin is 28 and Single." I'll be 28 tomorrow. They could examine all of my weird neuroses, including this recent butterfly phenomenon.

6) Alton Brown is my favorite. Feasting on Asphalt is my favorite series.

7) My new car has her first dent. I feel bad about it!

8) I need more golf. I wish I were rich.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/glac/video/backcountry_summer_med.mov

Backwoods camping next fall. Ben and Abby are much to weak to do it.

$500??? It doesn't even seem like much of a challenge!

http://travel.discovery.com/ideas/food-wine/supersize/supersize_04.html

World's Best Places to Pig Out
By Jason Robey


8. Pointer's Pizza
Location: Richmond Heights, Mo.
The Challenge: Finish a 28-inch Pointersaurus pizza with 3 pounds of meat toppings in one hour with a partner
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It lives in the shadow of St. Louis, preying on wide-eyed pizza-lovers with king-sized appetites. Many have confronted this monster of a meal, but only a determined few have been able to defeat it. Made from 2 pounds of mozzarella, 2 pounds of tomato sauce, 3 pounds of meat and 4-½ pounds of dough, the 28-inch Pointersaurus is a pizza of prehistoric proportions.

Only Pointer's Pizza, a delivery joint just outside of St. Louis, has the temerity to bake a pie of this size. It costs $42 to enter their Pointersaurus contest, which pits two ravenous appetites against one unbelievably large pizza. If you and a partner can conquer this meat-laden behemoth in less than an hour, your team will leave the table $500 richer. To date, only six teams have won out of 400 challengers.

If you have a relatively normal appetite, you can still order a Pointersaurus, but we'd recommend sharing it with friends, family and even long-lost relatives. An average of 100 are delivered every week in the St. Louis area. Since these aren't contest pizzas, you can select your own toppings, there's no time limit and the entire block can help you devour it.

More pics from the trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8859923@N06/sets/72157600956745638/

I'm in Flagstaff, Az. More to come later.

So in lieu of actually talking about my trip (I'm in a motel in Lusk, Wyoming), I shall post a link to my flickr account with all of the pictures I've taken so far.

More updates to come.

Without any further ado, here it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8859923@N06/sets/72157600956745638/

I debated writing this in Oregon Trail Diary-style, but that would come across too nerdy. So here I am in Murdo, SD. I drove 844 miles today in 11 1/2 hours. We stopped 3 times, all for gas. The first time, it was 65 degrees, then 80 degrees, and the last time it was 108(!) degrees. But it's a dry heat, right? WRONG. It felt like I was standing in front of a furnace!

In any case, tomorrow we will hit the Badlands, Wall Drug, Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Monument, the Black Hills, and Wind Cave.

It will be long, and it will be awesome.

Highlights:

-Ben's car has a four cylinder engine. I'd pass four cars going down a hill (because I needed to build up speed), and then the same four cars would pass me going up the next one.

-South Dakota has a 75 MPH speed limit!

-We saw someone with Indiana personalized licence plates - "JESUS"

-Pulling into Walgreens at 5:30am, Ben accidentally parked next to a nice pile of vomit.

So one of the funniest things I've read in a while:

Backstage rider requirements for Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Trust me, it's worth the time if you want a few laughs.

I posted the following on usenet, and I think it goes a long way towards explaining some of my neuroses.

Sometimes I have a problem that most people have with their professional lives - by doing something, working so close to one thing, they focus on that one thing. Doctors see what can go wrong with the human body, and so they start to see everything in terms of a symptom. Engineers see what can go wrong with an aging building. Police officers see everyone as a suspected criminal. My dad looks at a playground and sees head entrapment hazards, and fall hazards, and codes missed. And social workers, well, they've seen it all. They've seen so many people do things that are so inhuman that you come out wondering which way is up. You start to wonder if there is even a right and a wrong in this world any more. You see supposed
"Christians" that spend their private life sexually abusing their children. You see upstanding members of the community who you know beat their wives. You see racists, rapists, sexists, xenophobes, abusers, drug dealers, junkies, criminals, liars, cheaters, thieves, whores, and gamblers. You see the bottom of the barrell in what life can entail.

And I see it more often than I would care to. We have an individual in one of my homes, and well, she's
nonverbal. She can be annoying, combative, and spiteful, but I can't hold any of that against her. You see, she spent the greatest part of her first 24 years locked in her parents' closet, abused, beaten, and unloved. They shoved her food under the door and let her urinate and defecate on herself for weeks on end. If she had received early speech therapy, she could probably speak. But she's loving and caring, and runs to staff when her roommate is having a siezure. When I'm down in the office working, she brings me water (half a glass, and usually warm, but water nonetheless). She splits her time between helping out and refusing to help out, well, that, and showing you sores that she picked at so she could ask for a
bandaid.

When you see something like that, it changes you. You see the world in a much darker light. You are confused on how a person could do that to anyone, but more significantly, how a person could do that to their own child. You start to wonder exactly what world makes a person so cruel. And you think of all the times this must have happened, that a human being was tortured, just for being that person. And you start to see signs of it in the real world. You see a woman wearing a big set of sunglasses to cover up that black eye. You see a child screaming words that they should never have heard in the first place. You see children with marks on them, and you wonder from where they came.

And all of that changes you a little. You start to see the world in terms of only good and evil, with too much evil and not enough good.

You see things that aren't to be seen, that can't be dealt with by any sane person, because sometimes, in a really fucked-up situation, the sane response is the one that seems like craziness. You pride yourself in
helping others that need help, in giving people your soul, one that can finally be trusted.

But you lose something. You're different. You're less innocent. You don't see things the way you used to. When you used to speak up about politics, you did so because you thought that your voice, any voice, was important and could make a difference. When you spoke out against injustice, you did so because you thought injustice was something that could be changed. Now you're not so sure.

And that changes you a little. And now because you've taken a little of so many people's pain and suffering, you start to have a little bit too much yourself. You see the world in a way that you didn't before. You had convinced yourself that you would be strong for these people who didn't have any strength left. You knew you could handle it because it needed to be done, and you needed to be the one that did it.

But you're different. You see people in terms of the evil that they may hold. You see the problems they may create. You see the atrocities that they may commit. You think of Darfur, of Apartheid, of Iraq, of all these things, and you're not all that surprised any more. You see people who are truly damaged, and you know that you cannot help them, can't fix them, can't take away their pain, because you've got no room left in your soul. And you wonder just how much you have left for yourself.

So you try to explain that to people, and most of them never get it. Unless you've been through the war that rages as an undercurrent in our society, in every society, you can't know. Most of those people, they're accountants, they're janitors, they're professors, they're everything but someone you know. And so you don't trust them. You start to wonder if, since they can't see these things are happening, since they deny that these things are happening, if they aren't part of the cause. If they don't realize what's going on, maybe it's because they are contributing just a little to that preponderance of evil in the world. If they have no concept of what it's like to be abused, maybe that's because they're an abuser. And you wonder about more and more people that you see every day.

You've seen what can happen. You've seen what can go wrong with in the postscript of that fairy tale that ends "happily ever after." And you don't think that anyone can live that way; moreover, they SHOULDN'T live that way with so much evil out there. And they're deniers. They say "Aw, it's not as bad as that." And "It's getting better." And yes, they're right. The truth of the situation lies in the middle. It's not as bad as you think, because you see the worst in people. But it's not as good and easy as they
think, either. And despite the fact that it IS getting better, it's at much too slow of a pace. And you wonder how they can cover their eyes to injustice. But you're a rock. You right wrongs - that's what you do, that's what you've been training to do your entire life. You've given people peace when there was none, solace when there was none, a shoulder to cry on when there was no one else there, even if you don't like to be touched.

So you know the world - all of it. And it frustrates you to think that there are people who can be so oblivious, so happy, so ignorant, when so much pain and suffering are going on. You don't know what to do, so you post on an Internet journal.

But there are still people who don't get it. Likely as not, they never will. But you have to be happy for them and take their share of the sorrows of this world too, because that's who you are, and that's what you are supposed to do. You're jealous, but you know deep down that you will wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.

So I watched the latest Pirates movie today - awesome, as expected, if only because of Johnny Depp. Does anyone know if this is supposed to be the last movie? I'd just hate to see the Jack Sparrow character end.

In other news, I bit clean through the side of my tongue yesterday. It's difficult to eat today. I was talking with my mouth full, wasn't paying attention, and punctured it well enough that it bled for over an hour. I always thought that when I was a kid and my parents yelled at me for talking with my mouth full, it was for manners, not safety reasons. You learn something new every day.

So I was advised by someone (the name has been omitted to protect him from what I'm sure are the rants and raves of those tired of political posts to actually endorse a candidate. I thought that was an important responsibility, as we all know that any blog that endorses a political candidate instantly achieves the status of uber-blog, right?

In any case, it's difficult for me to endores any candidate other than Barack Obama. The reasons are many. It is not because he is my senator, or because he is African-American, and it's certainly not because he'd be the candidate I would like to have a beer with, as those are superficial personality aspects for someone who is a viable candidate for the office of President of the United States.

Barack Obama is simply the candidate who has the ability to do the most for this country. See, I'm a big believer in the idealism of another era, that era of Jack and Bobby Kennedy. What was most important about those two men is not just what they said or did themselves, but what they expected from the American people. It wasn't about treating others like they were incapable of understanding anything but the simplest of explanations; rather, it was about expecting the most of people. It was about setting high-minded goals, and then doing what it takes to achieve them.

The Watergate scandal wiped this idealism off the face of American politics. Ronald Reagan was seen as an optimist, but what Reagan did was pay lip service to American ingenuity whilepromoting everything but the betterment of the American Society. It was the me-first 80s, and Reagan was the fittest leader for that era of self-interest. Politics became about denigrating those less fortunate in favor of those most wealthy. And that's a shame. It's a shame to waste the power of what the American people can achieve in an effort to accumulate wealth and create a caste system.

Bill Clinton, with his empathetic stance towards the suffering of others, was supposed to be the savior. He was supposed to move the economy away from a business-first model to a people-first model. He did some good things - he insituted the Family and Medical Leave Act, he raised the minimum wage, and he presided over the greatest economic boom since the late 1940s. But what good that was achieved was immediately dismantled by the ineptitude of the current administration.

A little idealism is just what the doctor ordered. And the ideas aren't half-bad, either. It's nice to see someone that looks for common ground in an era of divide and conquer politics. It's important to hear that the true measure of a society is how it cares for those who cannot care for themselves. It's important to do good things for all people, not simply those that have accumulated wealth and power over generations.

It's time for a new America.

If you know the definition of 'Schadenfreude,' then you understand my feelings regarding the following article. There has never been a bigger douchbag in the history of the world, and him making terrible music that made me want to puncture my eardrums with lit cigarettes under the guise of being a 'Christian' is probably the height of douchebaggery in my lifetime. Its only competition lies in the continued ultra-douchebaggy music of Nickelback that makes me wish I could have been born in the 1800s so I would have been dead long before they were born and able to continually assault any decent taste in music.. As a sidenote, I read a blog not to long ago about Stapp sleezily trying to pick up chicks and Denny's. Good times.

From http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/21/stapp.arrested.ap/index.html

Ex-Creed frontman Stapp charged with assault

BOCA RATON, Florida (AP) -- Former Creed frontman Scott Stapp was arrested at his home Sunday and charged with assault related to domestic violence, authorities said.

Stapp was charged with one count of domestic assault with intent to commit a felony and was being held without bond, according to a Palm Beach County Jail official who was reached by telephone and would not give her name.

No one was injured and no one was taken to the hospital, said Paul Miller, a Sheriff's Office spokesman.

Miller declined to identify the victim and said he had no information about any physical violence.

"We don't know exactly what occurred here," said Miller.

It was not immediately known if Stapp had an attorney.

Stapp, 33, was married a year ago last February at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami to former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat.

Nesheiwat declined to comment Sunday night.

"It's just a rough time," she told The Palm Beach Post.

Stapp's label, Wind-up Records, released a statement Monday. "This is a private matter between the members of the Stapp family and we would hope that their privacy is respected," said the statement. "Scott and Jaclyn are both well, and any further relevant information will be forthcoming at the appropriate time."

Stapp's former band Creed sold more than 25 million records in the United States. He has since launched a solo singing career.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

After 45 holes of golf this weekend, I am sufficiently tired. Also sunburnt. But it's a good tired, and my golf game has rewarded me with continuously lower scores.