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I don’t how to even lead up to this one other than to say the guys at Volokh seem to like it:

I don’t think I’d be surprised at how many parents wish they had had one at one point or another. ( They need teencage.net even worse! )

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When I grow up, I think I want to be an army recruiter.  Think I’m nuts?  Consider this:
The gal to my left is Jill Marie Moore, former cheerleading coach at Ware Shoals High School, wife, mother of two children, former guidance counselor, daughter of a well-known pastor, and, daughter of a former school board member.  In other words, pretty affluent for a small town.  Well, apparently she liked to party.  So, rather than going to a scheduled event, she arranged for herself to meet up with a fella she was seeing on the side at a hotel.  Which is not the same guy she was seeing on the side from school.  Now, that’s not really much of a story, now is it?  But just wait, it gets all kinds better.

Rather than doing this all by herself discretely, Jill decides to take along a couple of her students, high school cheerleaders to be exact.  She takes a room with her beau, and leaves the other guy a room with sixteen year old TWO cheerleaders, some vodka, and some beer ( surprised she forgot the cam! ).  One of them admitting having sex.  Not sure what the other one did, but she says she only watched.  Now-ex-recruiter sure has a story to share at bars ( the legal of age of consent in South Carolina is 16, so he’s not going to jail, but he is out of a job apparently. )  Now, Jill is facing all kinds of charges ( sex is legal at sixteen, drinking a beer is NOT. ).  She won’t be a guidance counselor at the high school for a long time I would imagine.

But wait, that’s still not all of it.  For reasons not quite clear just yet, Ware Shoals principal Jane Blackwell apparently decided it would be best that no one discussed it.  So, she did little things like locking all the bathroom doors to keep students from using their cell phones when the story broke.  I’m still waiting to see why Ms. Blackwell did what she did.  Maybe the Pastor’s going to get some grief as well.  Anyways, Ms. Blackwell’s been hit with all kinds charges as well.  I don’t think she’ll be principaling at Ware Shoals any time soon again.

I’ve done some articles on some of the more goofball shenanigans of women supposedly smart enough to educate our kids.  In that whole theme, I’ve been pretty much at a total loss trying to figure why these people are willing to risk everything, and in Moore’s case, it IS everything, to screw around with kids.  Jill Moore is reputed to be pretty much in a complete state of shock at this time.  She should be.  Not because of the exposure of all this, but simply because it was so incredibly stupid and I’m sure at this point she knows that.  We put our faith in people like Jill Moore and Jane Blackwell.  We don’t give them carte blanche permission to do with our children as they see fit.  When they do take advantage of their position, they should be overwhelmed by our reaction.

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The news today is Paris Hilton has sued the owners of Parisexposed.com to prevent them from selling stuff about her.  Now, initially I find it kind of odd that the most over-exposed diva on the planet would complain about being exposed.  However, Smokinggun.com has more on what the exposure is.  Apparently, what happened was Paris apparently left a bunch of stuff in a storage facility and didn’t pay the bill.  So, they sold it.  The sex tapes and stuff I can see.  But these people are selling lots of stuff like medical records and the like.  This is going a little too far in my opinion.  I mean, who in their right mind would want that stuff?  Whether they did or not, every person has the right to a certain amount of privacy regardless of how famous they may be.  For that reason, I’m with Paris on this one.

UPDATE February 1, 2007: For what it’s worth, Paris’s videos and pics are all over the internet now. I’ve seen them all. Trust me, don’t waste your $39.97 at parisexposed.com.

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You know you’re having a bad day if you’re in charge of the local electric service and this happens:

About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power Sunday after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.

You know you’re having an even worse day if you’re the bald eagle.

We haven’t had that happen here yet.  But, between stocking eagles and deer, it’s just a matter of time.

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I just couldn’t get over this one:

That is actually Johnny Dingle and Scooter Berry of the West Virginia Mountaineers.  If they ever meet me in person, I’ll deny I have anything to do with this post.

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For this via my buds at Independent Sources ( via Wiki ).  It’s just some quotes of Jean Claude Van Damme is all:

• “You need a flash when you photograph a rabbit that already has red eyes.”

• “If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.”

• “According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that’s not good.”

• “If you phone a psychic and she doesn’t answer the phone before it rings, hang up.”

• “In the year 3,000, people are going to speak with sound waves. Don’t think I’m crazy, the whales do it. Dolphins too.”

• “A cow eats three acres. With three acres I could make two thousand kilos of rice. With three acres I could feed Avignon!”

• “My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she’s good with the housework.” ( He’s now been married four times, not sure which wife was so good with the housework. )

• “A cookie has no soul, it’s just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there’s the potential for life.” ( Think REAL HARD about this one! )

• “Showing myself nude from behind doesn’t pose any problems but from the front that’s another story. I don’t want to lose all my fans!”

• “I’m fast, why? Because I eat vegetables.”

• “Obviously I’ve taken drugs.”

• “When I walk across my living room from my chiminey to my window, it takes me ten seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!”

• “I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.”

• “Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It’s soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain.”

I really, really, really, never pondered just how deep Jean Claude was.  For that, I truly feel at this time my life has not been all that it could be.  Now, thanks to Independent Sources and Wiki, I feel much better about myself!

However, my life apparently could be even more complete, this page has even MORE JC quotables.  However, they are all in French.  And, my French sucks.  If anyone wants to take a stab at it, please DO make me aware.

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Cruising Youtube has its perils.  Here’s four that I stumbled on tonight trying to entertain Moonlet:

Now, I understand Celine doing it for the fun factor.  I appreciate Shania’s interpretation of it.  I don’t have a clue what Marylin or Shakira must have been thinking.  But, it doesn’t stop them from being bad to awful from the perspective of a die-hard ACDC fan.  So, I thought this would be another one of those fun polls I love doing so much.  I am only including performers that I think should know better.  They’ve got people on their staff that instead of telling them it’s as hot as ACDC ever dreamed it being, they should have told them this probably isn’t such a good idea.

And, just when I thought finding an ACDC cover that meant something was totally hopeless, I stumbled on this:

Close your eyes and imagine Janice Joplin doing Whole Lotta Rosie, and meaning it.  I’m gonna look a lot closer at House of Flies.  They can absolutely burn up the blues.  That’s a rare talent these days.

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I gotta admit, I think this would spice the series up a little. 

I mean, a bunch of men fighting over a piece of jewelry that turns you into a kind of froggy looking thing just doesn’t really appeal to me.

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Was sort of checking the records of some of the "hot" teams in the NCAA basketball hoops loops when I couldn’t help noticing one team had gotten kinda hot lately, but was just barely scratching the top 25 AP, and not at all on ESPN.  So, I checked the "ranking" I trust most, Power Rankings.com.  They had them at #9.  So, I decided to do a little look-see.  This what I came up with:

Now, what this tells you is, the right two columns are the difference between the first two rankings and Power Rankings.  In the case of LSU and Alabama, the difference is real numbers don’t support the popularity polls that are AP and ESPN.   My prediction, both will tumble.  The one team that is greatly under-ranked on AP and ESPN is Kentucky.  Whereas AP barely has them in the Top 25, ESPN doesn’t even give them that much credit.  Power rankings have them in the Top 10 in the nation.  Something’s gonna give in that glaring discrepency.

My money’s on Power Rankings.  I really think AP and ESPN rely too much on how popular a team is.

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I just can’t help enjoying the inaneness of today’s rumor du’jour.  Britney Spears decided to run around drunk out of her mind a few nights totally "unprotected".  Now, from the male perspective, that means she wanted some in the worst possible way.  Apparently she got it.

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