Busy in School

There's a school policy up in Massachusetts....free condoms to be handed out to any kid...even in the fifth or sixth grade...if they ask for them.

The media kinda got wind of this discussion...and the hype this week is over the idea that kids could ask for these, without the parents knowing, and get them.

It's kind of a funny policy. First, this is a state-deal or local health services deal...so you are getting the cheapest condom possible. Naturally, the breakage rate is a big deal, if they really cared (but they don't).

Could a kid walk in and ask for thirty condoms a week? Yeah, a kid could do that...and the school nurse would eventually ask if he was using every single one of them, and the kid would likely smile and just say "only half the time".

I could imagine a scenario where some 15-year old kid walks in and says he's doing so much....that he's out of manliness and he needs some Viagra. They'd discuss this matter for a while and probably issue the kid a dozen each month...just to make sure that he's up to the task at hand.

Here's the sad part about this story...it's not 1972 anymore, and you've got punks everywhere doing it. A couple of years ago, I was chatting with a junior high teacher who had kids as young as 13 who were turning up pregnant in class. After a while, you'd rather not accept this as the "norm" but then it'd just repeat itself.

So there are two sides to this story. I'm guessing that it'll continue on...no matter what anyone says, unless the school board is voted out.

My Kind of Gal

Occasionally, I'll find a pretty wild story...which will barely make it into the real news stuff.

Today....there is this 31-year old gal from Utah....who stole two cars and led them on a chase all while she was naked. The cops decided...after finally arresting her...that she ought to have a mental evaluation....which I might agree with.

This started in the late afternoon. Some guy pulls over....putting up business signs. This gal pulls up and gets "nudily" out of the car. I realize some of you Bama guys are a bit unnerved right now...and you can just skip this blog....but the rest of you can just settle back.

It's hard to say what the business guy was thinking at this point...probably just staring...but she walks up with no clothing and gets into his car, and drives off. There's a moment of pause here...and the business guy jumps into her abandoned car...then calls the cops via his cellphone.

At some point down the road....the gal crashes into a gate, and this is where cops finally arrive. But they've got a problem. Between blood on her from the crash, and alot of sweat...she was fairly slippery. You can imagine this scene....cops in full gear...vest on....and trying to grab onto a hot sweaty gal. Two cops couldn't even do the job.

Then she does a funny thing...she escapes....gets into the cop car and drives away.

She then crashes into another gate, and has to jump out of the car again.

Now, she's on foot....and has to jump a barbed wire fence.

Yep, you can settle back here in Bama and try to imagine a gal without much on....climbing over a barbed wire fence. There's this image...but we shouldn't think about this much.

It was at this point...the cops finally taser the gal.

There's enough charges (stolen vehicles, felony fleeing and lewdness) to keep her in jail for a year....just in case some of you guys had this romantic vision in your mind of your next wife or girlfriend.

Possible drug use? Well....yeah....I'd be betting heavily on that. But you can't find a gal in the state of Bama who'd jump a barb-wire fence with nothing on. And you have to admire a gal who would do that. Taking a taser shot is a plus-up too. It's just this car thing that would bother me....but she was all sweaty when sitting in those car seats (that ought to leave an image in your mind).

Spitzer Back?

CNN is moving forward now at the 8PM (east coast time) to place former New York governor Eliot Spitzer with political conservative Kathleen Parker. Their chief competition? From Fox, O'Reilly. From MSNBC, Olbermann.

CNN was stuck with no growth in this time slot. So this is their wild shot at recovery. Frankly, with Eliot Spitzer, if this were to be mildly successful...he'd have further recovery and maybe become active in the 2012 election. I'm guessing CNN got him for a fair price and figured for the next twelve months...they would at least build up better numbers.

Should Keith Olbermann worry? I think this type of show would take one or two percent from Fox....but it might take five to eight percent of the MSNBC viewers away. It's not that Olbermann or MSNBC is really growing currently.....the whole network package is spiraling in more of a negative trend, with no growth since the November 2008 election period.