Principal Who Accused 9 Year Old of Sexual Harrassment Fired by Own Zero Tolerance Rule

MSNBC - The principal who accused a 9-year-old North Carolina boy of sexual harassment for allegedly calling a teacher "cute" has been forced to retire. The story of Emanyea Lockett's suspension last week, first reported by WSOC-TV of Charlotte, N.C., created a national controversy. Tuesday, the Gaston County School District apologized to the family and said there was no sexual harassment. Jerry Bostic, principal of Brookside Elementary School in Gastonia, told WSOC on Tuesday night that he had retired because of the controversy. "One mistake in 44 years, and I'm not given the benefit of the doubt. I really don't believe I was treated fairly," Bostic told the station.

It's about damn time one of these idiotic, over zealous, PC, educators got a taste of their own medicine. About Damn Time.  Oh, "wahh, one mistake and I don't get any benefit of the doubt, wahhhh." Fuck off. It's your own zero tolerance policy that got you in this mess in the first place, see what a mess you've created?

Was this 9 year old kid calling his teacher "cute" (or "Fine" as some reports have suggested) given the benefit of the doubt? Or was he treated like a sex offender because that's what the zero tolerance policy told you to do. 

Simply put, if the punishment is good enough for your students, then its good enough for the educators who put it in place. 

A great day for America in my mind. 

I Just Don't Get Words with Friends. It Doesn't Appeal to Me At All. Scrabble for Life.

(CNN) -- What's so addictive about a Scrabble-like online game that it can get you kicked off an airplane? Non-gamers have been asking that question since actor Alec Baldwin was booted from an American Airlines flight Tuesday in Los Angeles for refusing to turn off his phone. His reason? The "30 Rock" star was in the middle of playing "Words with Friends." For the uninitiated, "Words with Friends" is a multiplayer word game that people play online, usually on their phones or via Facebook. Like Scrabble, players receive a random assortment of letters on tiles and must use them to form words on a crossword puzzle-like grid. Words with rare letters such as Q or Z are worth more points.

Little secret, I've never played Words With Friends. Just haven't done it, sure I have it DL'd on my phone and tablet, I'm not a tool or anything, I just haven't played it yet. It's weird too, because I'm the definition of an early adopter, by all accounts I should have been the first person on Words, just waiting for someone else to join so I could play. Shoot, just this week I went out and bought a new vacuum, solely because it had a headlight. I thought it was technologically advanced, for all those times where I vacuum in complete darkness. But Words with Friends? Just haven't done it.

I just don't get the hype, still don't after reading this article. Its basically Scrabble, right, just a different name? Don't get me wrong, I love a good game of Scrabble, and get ultra competitive about it, its just I've never found myself wishing that I'd brought my scrabble board with me so I could play with my friends on the shitter, in the subway, or in line at Target. Great game, not exactly beckoning me at all hours of the day. 

Plus, I've never been one for these games that last for days on end. Like those people who play chess and only move 1 piece every time they visit eachother. What the fuck is that, how's that fun? Just sit down and bang out a game fellas, its chess, takes like 20 minutes, I've seen black people in the park finish up in like 3 minutes. No need for the two year mini-series saga over a chess board. Same with Words With Friends (I take it we can't abbreviate this WWF?). No, I don't want to play a game where you place a word every 4 hours. I 'm either into the game or I'm not. I may be really amped for a game at like 10 AM one day, but if you don't respond until 6 PM, I'm probably not going to be interested in playing anymore, my attention span is short. 

PS: Can't you just cheat too? It's a smartphone, you can be looking up words all day. That doesn't seem right. Call me a purist, but I like Scrabble because it proves that I'm smarter than my opponent when it comes to the English language, what does Words with Friends prove? You know how to use an online dictionary better than them? No thanks. Scrabble for Life

Lynn, MA Police Arrest Lady for Feeding Birds at Local Pond

LYNN (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - An elderly Lynn woman dubbed "The Bird Lady" will be in court Wednesday for continuing to feed geese and ducks at a local pond. The Lynn Daily Item reports that police filed a criminal against 80-year-old Claire Butcher for trespassing. Lynn's health directors told the paper that she brings entire shopping carts full of bread at a time to Flax Pond.

Man, her career really fell off after Home Alone 2, Lost In New York, huh? From feeding the birds of Central Park, the most sought after crazy old bird feeder lady park in the world to feeding ducks at some crummy pond in Lynn...I dare say no star has ever plummeted so greatly. 

PS: Real nice Lynn. Like you don't have enough shit to worry about, you're arresting 80 year old ladies for feeding birds? In Lynn, MA. No house of illegal immigrants or drug dealers you could've been busting, had to send out the APB for Grandma Bird Feeder over here? For shame.

Saugus Librarian Steals $800k from Library Funds, Bookman On the Case

Boston - A former Saugus Public Library employee has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing $800,000 from the library, money she allegedly used to pay bills, to fund work on her home, and to splurge on jewelry, flowers, and hotel stays. Linda E. Duffy, 65, a part-time administrative assistant who became a permanent employee at the library in 2004, was indicted on four counts of mail fraud, 10 counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated identity theft, the US Attorney’s office said today. The indictment states that starting in 2004, and continuing until she resigned in July 2011, Duffy allegedly drained funds from a bank account at Eastern Bank that she had set up in the name of the Saugus Public Library.“We could have used the funds that were allegedly misappropriated. ... This is a real breach of the public’s trust,” he said. The charitable donations diverted to Duffy’s account included checks for about $143,535 from a family estate, prosecutors said. The GE Foundation, which matched donations to the library from current or former General Electric employees, was also bilked of a total of $450,000, according to the indictment.

Sick town, Saugus. When your librarian is bilking your town, and a Fortune 500 company, right under your nose for almost 8 years, you've got some serious problems...Probably start in the Accounting/Controller/Town Auditors office, because they clearly just ignored the library for quite some years. Then I'd look at this womans co-workers, I mean is this a common thing? Librarians living the life of luxury? I know they've got a mean business model making like a nickel a day on overdue books, and that would add up, if people read books from the library anymore. I'm guaranteeing I find more nickels on the street on a daily basis than the library makes in fees. I'm also guaranteeing that if my man Bookman up there was on the case, this would have been snuffed out at the start.

And none of this is to suggest that Linda Duffy isn't to blame, these are her actions and her actions alone it looks like. It's just, she's a librarian, not some Criminal Minds case study. She wasn't even all that clever, just moving funds from the Library's bank account to her's and then giving it out and buying shit. How was this not caught? That's all I want to know. You can just pay yourself from the city of Saugus' bank accounts and no one notices?

PS: What does a library need such exhorbitant donations for anyway? $450k from GE? Can we maybe donate this money to the school systems (which incidentally, have their own library's)?

Lindsay Lohan Playboy Cover Leaked...And I Hardly Cared

Fox News - Lindsay Lohan's Playboy cover was leaked online Wednesday, revealing a shot of the actress channeling a mix of Marilyn Monroe and Jessica Rabbit. The photograph shows Lohan with long blonde tresses cascading down her shoulders while her nude figure straddles a bright red Playboy logo -- strategically covering her sensitive areas. The cover shot, posted on The Insider website, was not set to be revealed until Lohan's interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" December 15.

Surest sign yet that its not 2005 anymore? Upon hearing the words "Lohan," "Playboy," and "leak," I didn't immediately go home from the office for lunch and check that shit out...I did later go home for lunch, and didn't even bother to search around for it. It wasn't until like 9:30 at night and I happened to stumble across a story about it on Fox News that I was like "oh yea, hey you should probably check that out." 

 
I don't know if my lack of enthusiasm says more about LiLo and just how far she's fallen off the male radar, or about me and my struggle to remember and enjoy the very same things I loved in college just a few short years ago...Though I'm guessing its just her. I mean, if she still had her fastball, I'd probably have been all over it, its just when you go to jail like 3x per month, its just bad for your image and health.